Expounding the Constitution

Grant Huscroft is Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Western Ontario in London. He was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, from 1992-2002 and has been a visiting professor at McGill University. He has written extensively about constitutional rights and judicial review and his work has been published in Canada, the United States, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. He co-authored the leading treatise on constitutional rights in New Zealand, The New Zealand Bill of Rights, and has co-edited four collections of essays.

• Part I. Morality and the Enterprise of Interpretation: 1. What does constitutional interpretation interpret? Steven D. Smith; 2. Do judges reason morally? Jeremy Waldron; 3. Constitutional morality and bills of rights W. J. Waluchow; 4. Justification and rights limitations Bradley W. Miller; Part II. Judicial Review, Legitimacy, and Justification: 5. Constitutions, judicial review, moral rights, and democracy: disentangling the issues Larry Alexander; 6. The incoherencies of constitutional positivism David Dyzenhaus; 7. The travails of Justice Waldron James Allan; 8. Deference rather than defiance: the limits of the judicial role in constitutional adjudication Aileen Kavanagh; Part III. Unwritten Constitutional Principles: 9. Constitutional justice and the concept of law T. R. S. Allan; 10. Written constitutions and unwritten constitutionalism Mark D. Walters; 11. Unwritten constitutional principles Jeffrey Goldsworthy.

"...An eclectic array of writing with transnational panache....Huscroft has done a fine job of collecting interesting essays. The book presents a politically and philosophically balanced view of constitutional theory....The essays are fairly accessible....Huscroft's introduction helps weave the patchwork of essays together....Altogether, the book is a good read, and is recommended for those interested in constitutional theory and interpretation, judicial review, and legal philosophy." --Adam Shajnfeld (J.D., Columbia), The Law and Politics Book Review