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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment by Edited by Professor Richard Albert Edited by Professor Xenophon Contiades Edited by Dr Alkmene Fotiadou
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 it theorize best practices and identify its theoretical underpinnings. This volume is designed to guide the emergence of comparative constitutional amendment as a distinct field of study in public law. Like the field it helps to shape it 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. The chapters engage and interrogate the main questions in the field with new perspectives on the notion of ‘the people’ the trend of empirical quantitative approaches to constitutional change formal and informal unamendability sunrise clauses constitutional referenda the constituent power and other related topics. The book operates as a dialogue that cuts through these innovative conceptualizations highlighting scholarly disagreement and putting ideas to the test. It therefore captures the fierce ongoing debates in the field and plants the seeds for a continuing conversation on how constitutions do and should change. It is essential reading for scholars of constitutional and public law.