Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law

VICKI C. JACKSON is Professor of Law, Georgetown University.MARK TUSHNET is Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University. Both have published extensively on constitutional law issues.

• Foreword by William H. RehnquistIntroductionEuropean Integration and the Ideal of the Common Good by Winfried BruggerThe Shaping of a New Democracy Within the Context of Tradition: Equality and the Respect for Diversity by D. M. DavisReflections on Continental European Public Law in the Tradition of Hobbes and Napoleon by Thomas FleinerThe Right to Freedom of Religion and Secularism in the Indiana Constitution by Ratna KapurUses Americans Might Make of Foreign Constitutional Case Law by Donald P. KommersJudicial Systems: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century by Roberto G. MacLeanThe United Kingdom Human Rights Act, 1998 by Geoffrey MarshallConstitutional Development: The African Experience by Dullah OmarComparative Constitutional Law in an Age of Economic Globalization by David SchneidermanModern Constitutional Developments in the Arab World: The Case of Judicial Review in Egypt and Its Impact on Other Arab Countries by Adel Omar SherifWhy Do We Study Constitutional Laws of Foreign Countries, and How? by Kazuyuki TakahashiA European Perspective: Economic and Social Rights in the French Constitution by Jean-Pierre TheronConstitutional Conceptions and Constitutional Comparativism by Lorraine E. WeinribFor Further ReadingIndex