Rights-Based Constitutional Review

Edited by John Bell, University of Cambridge, UK and Marie-Luce Paris, University College Dublin, Ireland

• Contents:PrefaceSetting the Scene: Elements of Constitutional Theory and Methodology of the ResearchMarie-Luce ParisPART I BILLS OF RIGHTS AND ACTS OF INCORPORATION: US EXCEPTIONALISM AND ADAPTATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY MODEL1. The United States of America: A Comparativist Critique of US Judicial Review of Fundamental Rights Cases: Exceptionalisms, Paradoxes and ContradictionsMichel Rosenfeld2. The United Kingdom: Rights-based Constitutional Review in the UK: From Form to FunctionChintan Chandrachud and Aileen Kavanagh3. Ireland: Leaving Behind the Commonwealth Model of Rights Review: Ireland as an Example of Collaborative ConstitutionalismEoin CarolanA Tale of Two Rights-based Reviews or how the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 has Impacted on the Irish Model of ReviewCliona Kelly4. Australia: Australian Constitutionalism and the UK-style Dialogue Model of Human Rights ProtectionJames StelliosAdventures in the Grey Zone: Constitutionalism, Rights and the Review of Executive Power in the Migration ContextMatthew Zagor5. Finland: Intermediate Constitutional Review in Finland: Promising in Theory, Problematic in PracticeJuha Lavapuro, Tuomas Ojanen and Martin ScheininPART II CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS: SPECIFIC EUROPEAN EXPERIENCES TOWARDS AN EVOLUTION OF THE KELSENIAN MODEL6. Italy: The Italian System of Constitutional Review: A Kelsenian Model Moving Towards a Decentralized Model?Paolo Passaglia7. Spain: The Spanish Experience of Rights-based Review or how Constitutional Case Law has been More Principled than Legislation in Defence of Fundamental RightsAgustín Ruiz Robledo8. France: The French System of Rights-based Review: From Exceptionalism to Parochial ConstitutionalismMarie-Luce Paris9. Belgium: The Belgian Experience of Rights-based Review: Has the Constitutional Court Become a Body Subordinated to the European Court of Human Rights?Marc Verdussen10. Hungary: The Illusion of a Constitution in Europe: The Hungarian Constitutional Court after the Fifth Amendment of the Fundamental LawRenáta UitzPART III CONCLUSION11. Comparative Law and Fundamental RightsJohn BellIndex

'This collection provides a fresh picture of the situation of constitutional review in a broad set of jurisdictions. The chapters demonstrate powerful shifts toward a model of constitutional review to protect individual rights, but they also quite admirably elaborate on the tensions, divergences, pressures and triumphs in each country. A superb introduction to judicial review in an important set of countries.'--Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago'Even well-established systems of constitutional review in Anglo-European legal systems have undergone significant change over the past few decades. These valuable essays provide an overview of those developments, and bring out especially clearly the increasing importance of ''dialogic'' forms of constitutional review, the penetration of transnational law into domestic constitutional systems, and important changes specific to individual national systems, all of which will make this collection helpful to scholars of comparative constitutional law.'--Mark Tushnet, Harvard University'Bell and Paris have brought together a galaxy of talent to help comparative lawyers and political scientists understand the fast moving world of rights-based review. Detailed chapters explaining recent developments in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Belgium, France, Australia, Finland, and the United States provide a valuable introduction to those who seek to catch-up with developments, and a rich analysis of those developments for those already immersed in them. This is a most welcome addition to comparative constitutional scholarship.'--Christopher McCrudden FBA, Queen's University, Belfast, UK and University of Michigan Law School