Constitutionalism and the Role of Parliaments

Katja S Ziegler is Sir Robert Jennings Chair in International Law at the University of Leicester. Denis Baranger is Professor of Public Law at the Universite Pantheon-Assas (Paris II). Anthony W. Bradley is Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford.

• Part One National Traditions of Parliamentary Law: Towards a European Model?1. Constitutionalism and the Role of ParliamentsAW Bradley, Katja S Ziegler and Denis Baranger2. Parliamentary Law and Parliamentary Government in Britain: Some Historical RemarksDenis Baranger3. The Formation of Parliamentary Law in FrancePierre Avril4. Parliamentary Law: The German ExperienceFabian Wittreck5. The Law and Custom of a New Parliament: The European ParliamentSionaidh Douglas-ScottPart Two Parliaments and the Executive6. Cabinet as the Leading Part of Parliament: The Westminster Model in EuropeArmel Le Divellec7. Parliaments and the Executive: Old Control Rights and New Control Contexts in GermanyChristoph Gusy8. Executive Powers in Foreign Policy: The Decision to Dispatch the MilitaryKatja S Ziegler9. Separation of Powers, Public Law Theory and Comparative AnalysisNicholas BamforthPart Three Parliaments, the Courts and Human Rights10. Judicial Independence and ParliamentsThe Rt Hon Lady Justice Arden DBE11. Why Should Judges Be Independent?Luc Heuschling12. Independence of the Judiciary in GermanyGernot Sydow13. Making Parliamentary Rights Effective: The Role of Constitutional Courts in GermanyPascale Cancik14. The Parliamentary Protection of Human RightsKeith Ewing

Anyone interested in constitutionalism and related matters will find the volume quite absorbing. The Commonwealth Lawyer Vol 16, No 3, December 2007 Both the book's comparative ambition and its substantive focus on the constitutional role of parliaments make it distinctive and are to be welcomed...Comparative constitutional scholarship is in vogue and, in offering a comparative analysis of the roles of parliaments, this book offers a valuable corrective to any tendency in comparative constitutional studies to focusing only on the case law of supreme and constitutional courts. Adam Tomkins Public Law 2008