The Migration of constitutional ideas / edited by Sujit Choudhry.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Constitutional law.

International law.

Administrative law.

1. Migration as a new metaphor in comparative constitutional law / Sujit Choudhry

2. On the blurred methodological matrix of comparative constitutional law / Ran Hirschl

3. Some reflections on method in comparative constitutional law / Mark Tushnet

4. The postwar paradigm and American exceptionalism / Lorraine E. Weinrib

5. Questioning the migration of constitutional ideas: rights, constitutionalism and the limits of convergence / Jeffrey Goldsworthy

6. Spreading liberal constitutionalism: an inquiry into the fate of free speech rights in new democracies / Michel Rosenfeld and Andras Sajo

7. Underlying principles and the migration of reasoning templates: a trans-systemic reading of the Quebec Secession Reference / Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens

8. Migrating marriages and comparative constitutionalism / Brenda Cossman

9. Inimical to constitutional values: complex migrations of constitutional rights / Mayo Moran

10. Democratic constitutionalism encounters international law: terms of engagement / Mattias Kumm

11. Constitution or model treaty? Struggling over the interpretive authority of NAFTA / David Schneiderman

12. The migration of constitutional ideas and the migration of the constitutional idea: the case of the EU / Neil Walker

13. The migration of anti-constitutional ideas: the post-9/11 globalization of public law and the international state of emergency / Kim Lane Scheppele

14. The post-9/11 migration of Britain's Terrorism Act 2000 / Kent Roach

15. Control systems and the migration of anomalies / Oren Gross.

The migration of constitutional ideas across jurisdictions is rapidly emerging as one of the central features of contemporary constitutional practice. In this book, leading figures in the study of comparative constitutionalism and comparative constitutional politics discuss the dynamic processes whereby constitutional systems influence each other.

"Papers for this volume were initially presented at an international conference held at the University of Toronto in October 2004"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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x, 448 p.