1st Edition

The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Constitutions are often seen as the product of the free will of a people exercising their constituent power. This, however, is not always the case, particularly when it comes to ‘imposed constitutions’. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the idea of imposition in constitutional design, but the literature does not yet provide a comprehensive resource to understand the meanings,... Read more

Introduction: Imposition in Making and Changing Constitutions - Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou

Part I: Theory

Chapter 1: Imposed Constitutions: Heteronomy and (Un)amendability - Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou

Chapter 2: Imposed Constitutions and Romantic Constitutions - David S. Law

Chapter 3: Internally Imposed Constitutions - Yaniv Roznai

Chapter 4: Legal Theology in Imposed Constitutionalism - Antoni Abat Ninet

Part II: Forms

Chapter 5: Constitutions Imposed with Consent? - Richard Albert

Chapter 6: Are "Octroyed Constitutions" of the 19th century to be Considered as Imposed Constitutions? - Jörg Gerkrath

Chapter 7: Inter-Venire, Sed Ubi Iri?: "Imposed" Constitutions, the "Will of the People", and the Eye of the Beholder - Zoran Oklopcic

Part III: Applications

Chapter 8: On the Priority that Publius Gives to National Security in Constitutional Design: Reflections on the Longevity of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution - Sanford Levinson

Chapter 9: The Constituent Power of the "Imposed" Constitution of Japan: An Amalgam of Internationalised Revolutionary Power and Nationalistic Devolutionary Power - Yota Negishi

Chapter 10: The Legitimacy of Internationally Imposed Constitution-Making in the Context of State Building - Manon Bonnet

Chapter 11: A post-national legal order: Does the European Union have an imposed constitution? - Graham Butler

Chapter 12: Texts in a Time of Imposition: Lessons from Two Imposed Constitutions in Africa - James Fowkes

Biography

Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin; Co-Editor, Routledge Series on Comparative Constitutional Change; Book Reviews Editor, American Journal of Comparative Law

Xenophon Contiades, Professor of Public Law, Panteion University; Managing Director of the Centre for European Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece; Co-Editor, Routledge Series on Comparative Constitutional Change

Alkmene Fotiadou, Research Fellow, Centre for European Constitutional Law; Co-Editor, Routledge Series on Comparative Constitutional Change