Constitutional Transplantations

The Diffusion and Adoption of Constitutional Ideas

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2026
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5099-6002-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores the global phenomenon of migration, transplantation, and borrowing of constitutional ideas. It combines conceptual and normative approaches, to dissect a phenomenon which has been both praised and maligned in current political and academic discourse.

The contributors consider constitutional transplantation as a specific case of migration of ideas, and place it within that broader intellectual framework of movement of knowledge. They analyse, from historical, conceptual, and normative angles, the transplantation of constitutions and constitutional ideas from one state to another, and the role played by existing cultures and histories in the reception of constitutional provisions and ideas.

The book takes a broad view of the term ‘constitutional’. The results of the movement of constitutional ideas can be found outside, as well as within, the law, and the implications of such movement go beyond it. The authors are drawn from the fields of comparative constitutional law, medieval history, political philosophy, private law, and administration of justice.

It reflects a view that the study of non-hegemonic systems, as well as hegemonic systems, is important in understanding transplantation of constitutional ideas, both as sources of transplants and as their receivers, and includes discussions of constitutions in Latin America, Asia, Europe, and North America.

Anat Scolnicov is Professor of Law at the University of Winchester, UK.

Preface
Dieter Grimm

Introduction
Anat Scolnicov (University of Winchester, UK)

Part One: Historical Analysis
1. Roman Past, Barbarian Present: Constitutional Transplantation in the Early Medieval West, Yizhak Hen (Hebrew University, Israel)
2. Safeguarding Democracy: The Role of Mixed Constitutions in Preventing Authoritarian Drift, Lorenzo Zucca (King’s College London, UK)

Part Two: Constitutional Transplantations: Conceptual Approaches
3. The Migration of Constitutional Ideas Between and Beyond States: Adjectives, Analogies and Added Value, Thomas Horsley (University of Liverpool, UK)
4. Fertile Fields: Legitimacy and Rationality in Constitutional Transplantations, Anat Scolnicov (University of Winchester, UK)

Part Three: Constitutional Transplantations and Private Law
5. Constitutional Transplants in Private Law: From Liberal to Republican Legal Ordering, Francois du Bois (University of Leicester, UK)
6. Judicial Case Management as a Democratic Practice: Procedural Convergence and the Constitutional Transplant Model, Helen Hershkoff (New York University, USA) and Rolf Stürner (former Judge of the State Courts of Appeal in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe; Freiburg University, Germany)

Part Four: Regional Issues in Constitutional Transplantations
7. Vertical Constitutional Transplantations: International Courts’ Role in Transplanting Constitutional Law between States in Latin America as Democratic Practice, Carlos Bernal Pulido (University of Dayton, USA; former Judge, Constitutional Court of Columbia)
8. The Constitutional Fate of Post-War East Asia: Regional Modern History and Separate Constitutional Changes in Japan, China, and Korea, Han Zhai (Wuhan University, China)

Part Five: Normative Considerations
9. Constitutional (and other legal) Transplants: Some Distinctions, Some Tentative Guidelines, Mordechai Kremnitzer (Hebrew University, Israel; Democracy Institute, Israel)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2026
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
ISBN-10	1-5099-6002-3 / 1509960023
ISBN-13	978-1-5099-6002-6 / 9781509960026
Zustand	Neuware