From Empire to Union: Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871. By Jo Eric Khushal Murkens. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. x + 261. Cloth £60.00. ISBN 978-0199671885.

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 658-660
Author(s):  
Peter C. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
German Constitutional Law ◽  
Oxford University Press

Buchbesprechungen

Der Staat ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-484
Keyword(s):  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Regulatory State ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Magna Carta ◽  
Oxford University Press

Maus, Ingeborg, Justiz als gesellschaftliches Über-Ich. Zur Position der Rechtsprechung in der Demokratie. Berlin 2018, Suhrkamp. 266 S. (Philipp Lassahn, Berlin) Kuhn, David, Der Verfassungsgrundsatz effektiver parlamentarischer Opposition (Beiträge zum Organisationsverfassungsrecht Bd. 2). Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 348 S. (Martin Morlok, Düsseldorf) Masing, Johannes/Jestaedt, Matthias/Jouanjan, Olivier/Capitant, David (Hrsg.), Politische Gestaltung durch Repräsentativorgane. Die Funktionsweise von Repräsentativorganen (Parlamente, Kommunalvertretungen) – Dokumentation des 8. Treffens des Deutsch-Französischen Gesprächskreises für Öffentliches Recht. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2019, 101 S. (David Kuhn, Koblenz) Roznai, Yaniv, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments. The Limits of Amendment Power. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017, 368 S. (Helmut Goerlich, Leipzig) Tucker, Paul, Unelected Power. The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State. Princeton/Oxford 2018, Princeton University Press. 642 S. (Alexander Thiele, Göttingen) Rosas, Allan/Armati, Lorna, EU Constitutional Law: An Introduction. 3. Aufl. London 2018, Hart Publishing. 328 S. (Laura Hering, Heidelberg) Baker, John, The Reinvention of Magna Carta 1216 – 1616 (Cambridge Studies in English Legal History). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2017, 622 S. (Ronald G. Asch, Freiburg i. Br.) Loick, Daniel, Juridismus. Konturen einer kritischen Theorie des Rechts. Berlin 2017, Suhrkamp, 342 S. (Peter Niesen, Hamburg)

scholarly journals Book Review: The Constitution of Independence

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 669
Author(s):  
Caroline Morris
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Oxford University Press

This article is a book review of Peter C Oliver The Constitution of Independence: The Development of Constitutional Theory in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005) (367 + xx pages). The book is a contribution to the area of domestic constitutional law of the Commonwealth. Oliver addresses the question: are the former colonies of Britain ever truly independent, or is that independence illusory? He also asks how such colonies seek to understand and explain their constitutional history. Morris argues that the book had a great deal of potential but has been left unrealised. As a legal historiography, the book does not always satisfactorily explain how people involved in creating that legal history (or in analysing it since) understand it. As an exercise in constitutional theory, the book merely suggests that there is nothing much to choose between theories as a matter of logic. The book also suffers from very dense prose and a number of distracting metaphors for the process of constitutional independence. Morris ultimately concludes that the book fails to provide useful insight into New Zealand's constitutional theory.

Understanding Law as a Democratic Institution Through US Constitutional Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 811-832 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Novkov
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Political Development ◽  
American Political Development ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Oxford University Press

This essay reviews Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume I: Structures of Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), and Howard Gillman, Mark Graber, and Keith Whittington, American Constitutionalism: Volume II: Rights and Liberties (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). It defends developmental approaches in the study of US constitutional law. It explains how law has been studied in political science, illustrating how political development became part of the story. It outlines how American political development approaches work when applied to law, noting how studying law transforms these approaches. It notes the insights produced through the blending of American political development and constitutional law, explaining how these insights provide more leverage for understanding the role of courts as democratic institutions. The essay closes by discussing the promising directions these approaches suggest, defending their value beyond political science.

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