City, State

Constitutionalism and the Megacity

Ran Hirschl (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-781020-0 (ISBN)

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More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters. Projections suggest that megacities of 50 million or even 100 million inhabitants will emerge by the end of the century, mostly in the Global South. This shift marks a major and unprecedented transformation of the organization of society, both spatially and geopolitically. Our constitutional institutions and imagination, however, have failed to keep pace with this new reality. Cities have remained virtually absent from constitutional law and constitutional thought, not to mention from comparative constitutional studies more generally. As the world is urbanizing at an extraordinary rate, this book argues, new thinking about constitutionalism and urbanization is desperately needed. In six chapters, the book considers the reasons for the "constitutional blind spot" concerning the metropolis, probes the constitutional relationship between states and (mega)cities worldwide, examines patterns of constitutional change and stalemate in city status, and aims to carve a new place for the city in constitutional thought, constitutional law and constitutional practice.

Ran Hirschl is University Professor, and the David R. Cameron Distinguished Professor in Law and Politics at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) - the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as "one of the world's leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence."

Introduction: An Urban Era

Chapter 1: The Sound of Constitutional Silence

Chapter 2: The Metropolis in "Old World" Constitutional Law

Chapter 3: Constitutional Innovation in Governing the Metropolis: Law, Economic, Politics

Chapter 4: Attempts at City Self-Empowerment

Chapter 5: Rethinking City Constitutional Status

Acknowledgments

List of Cases Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	0-19-781020-9 / 0197810209
ISBN-13	978-0-19-781020-0 / 9780197810200
Zustand	Neuware