Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments

The Limits of Amendment Powers
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-884066-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 560 g

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? The problem of 'unconstitutional constitutional amendments' has become one of the most widely debated issues in comparative constitutional theory, constitutional design, and constitutional adjudication. This book describes and analyses the increasing tendency in global constitutionalism to substantively limit formal changes to constitutions. The challenges of constitutional unamendability to constitutional theory become even more complex when constitutional courts enforce such limitations through substantive judicial review of amendments, often resulting in the declaration that these constitutional amendments are 'unconstitutional'.

Combining historical comparisons, constitutional theory, and a wide comparative study, Yaniv Roznai sets out to explain what the nature of amendment power is, what its limitations are, and what the role of constitutional courts is and should be when enforcing limitations on constitutional amendments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roznai, Yaniv

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Part I: Comparative Constitutional Unamendability

- 1: Explicit Constitutional Unamendability

- 2: Implicit Constitutional Unamendability

- 3: Supra-Constitutional Unamendability

- Part II: Towards a Theory of Constitutional Unamendability

- 4: The Nature of Constitutional Amendment Powers

- 5: The Scope of Constitutional Amendment Powers

- 6: The Spectrum of Constitutional Amendment Powers

- Part III: Enforcing Constitutional Unamendability

- 7: Understanding Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments

- 8: Exercising Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments

- 9: Conclusion

- Appendix: Explicit Unamendability in World Constitutions

Über Autor(innen)

Yaniv Roznai is a senior lecturer at the Radzyner Law School of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC). He specializes in comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, legisprudence, and public international law. Roznai holds a PhD and LLM from the London School of Economics, and LLB and BA degrees in law and government from the IDC. He is also an elected board member and secretary general of the Israeli Association of Public Law. He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, and at the Hauser Global Law School, New York University, and a visiting researcher at the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. This book is based upon his PhD for which he was awarded the 2014 Thesis Prize of the European Group of Public Law.