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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment by Edited by Professor Richard Albert Edited by Professor Xenophon Contiades Edited by Dr Alkmene Fotiadou
There is growing interest in constitutional amendment from a comparative perspective. Comparative constitutional amendment is the study of how constitutions change through formal and informal means including alteration revision evolution interpretation replacement and revolution. The field invites scholars to draw insights about constitutional change across borders and cultures to uncover the motivations behind constitutional change to theorise best practices and to identify the theoretical underpinnings of constitutional change.This volume is designed to guide the emergence of comparative constitutional amendment as a distinct field of study in public law. Much of the recent scholarship in the field has been written by the scholars assembled in this volume. This book like the field it hopes to shape is not comparative alone; it is also doctrinal historical and theoretical and therefore offers a multiplicity of perspectives on a subject about which much remains to be written. This book aspires to be the first to address comprehensively the new dimensions of the study of constitutional amendment and will become a reference point for all scholars working on the subject. The volume covers all of the topics where innovative work is being done such as the notion of the people the trend of empirical quantitative approaches to constitutional change unamendability sunrise clauses constitutional referenda the conventional divide between constituent and constituted powers among other important subjects. It creates a dialogue that cuts through these innovative conceptualisations and highlights scholarly disagreement and in so doing puts ideas to the test. The volume therefore captures the fierce ongoing debates on the relevant topics it reveals the current trends and contested issues and it offers a variety of arguments elaborated by prominent experts in the field. It will open the way for further dialogue.show more