The first comprehensive reference resource on comparative constitutional law, the Oxford Handbook provides a road map to the field. Leading experts examine the history and development of the discipline, its core concepts, institutions, rights, and emerging trends.

• Part I: History, Methodology, and Typology


• 1: Comparative Constitutional Law: A Contested Domain


• a: Armin von Bogdandy: Comparative Constitutional Law: A Continental Perspective


• b: Michel Rosenfeld: Comparative Constitutional Analysis in United States Adjudication and Scholarship


• 2: Vicki Jackson: Comparative Constitutional Law: Methodologies


• 3: Peer Zumbansen: Carving out Typologies and Accounting for Differences Across Systems: Towards a Methodology of Transnational Constitutionalism


• 4: Dieter Grimm: Types of Constitutions


• 5: Li-ann Thio: Constitutionalism in Illiberal Polities


• 6: Arun Thiruvengadam and Gedion Hessebon: Constitutionalism and Impoverishment: A Complex Dynamic


• 7: Stephen Gardbaum: The Place of Constitutional Law in the Legal System


• Part II: Ideas


• 8: Stephen Holmes: Constitutions and Constitutionalism


• 9: Mark Tushnet: Constitution


• 10: Martin Krygier: Rule of Law


• 11: Günter Frankenberg: Democracy


• 12: Olivier Beaud: Conceptions of the State


• 13: Robert Alexy: Rights and Liberties as Concepts


• 14: Frank Michelman: Constitutions and the Public Private Divide


• 15: Janos Kis: State Neutrality


• 16: Roberto Gargarella: The Constitution and Justice


• 17: Michel Troper: Sovereignty


• 18: Matthias Mahlmann: Carving out the Essence of Humanity: Human Dignity and Autonomy in Modern Constitutional Orders


• 19: Catharine Mackinnon: Gender and the Constitution


• Part III: Process


• 20: Claude Klein and András Sajó: Constitution-Making as a Process


• 21: David Dyzenhaus: States of Emergency


• 22: Yasuo Hasebe: War Powers


• 23: Susanna Mancini: Secession and Self-Determination


• 24: Laurence Morel: Referendum


• 25: Richard Pildes: Elections


• Part IV: Architecture


• 26: Jenny Martinez: Horizontal Structuring


• 27: Daniel Halberstam: Federalism: Theory, Policy, Law


• 28: Sergio Bartole: Internal Ordering in the Unitary State


• 29: Héctor Fix-Fierro and Pedro Salazar-Ugarte: Presidentialism


• 30: Anthony W. Bradley and Cesare Pinelli: Parliamentarism


• 31: Susan Rose-Ackerman: The Regulatory State


• Part V: Meanings/Textures


• 32: Jeffrey Goldsworthy: Constitutional Interpretation


• 33: Bernhard Schlink: Proportionality (1)


• 34: Aharon Barak: Proportionality (2)


• 35: Michel Rosenfeld: Constitutional Identity


• 36: Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn: Constitutional Values and Principles


• Part VI: Institutions


• 37: Juliane Kokott and Martin Kaspar: Ensuring Constitutional Efficacy


• 38: Alec Stone Sweet: Constitutional Courts


• 39: Roderick A MacDonald and Hoi Kong: Judicial Independence as a Constitutional Virtue


• 40: Daniel Smilov: The Judiciary: The Least Dangerous Branch?


• 41: Cindy Skach: Political Parties and the Constitution


• Part VII: Rights


• 42: Eric Barendt: Freedom of Expression


• 43: András Sajó and Renáta Uitz: Freedom of Religion


• 44: Richard Vogler: Due Process


• 45: Ulrich Preuss: Associative Rights (The Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly, and Association),


• 46: Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa: Privacy


• 47: Susanne Baer: Equality


• 48: Ayelet Shachar: Citizenship


• 49: Dennis Davis: Socio-Economic Rights


• 50: K D Ewing: Economic Rights


• Part VIII: Overlapping Rights


• 51: Reva Siegel: (The Rights to the Freedoms of Petition, Assembly, and Association),


• 52: Kenji Yoshino and Michael Kavey: Immodest Claims and Modest Contributions: Sexual Orientation in Comparative Constitutional Law


• 53: Sujit Choudhry: Group Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law: Culture, Economics, or Political Power?


• 54: Daniel Sabbagh: Affirmative Action


• 55: Judit Sándor: Bioethics and Basic Rights: Persons, Humans and Boundaries of Life


• Part IX: Trends


• 56: Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh: Internationalization of Constitutional Law


• 57: Neil Walker: The EU's Unresolved Constitution


• 58: Erika de Wet: The Constitutionalization of Public International Law


• 59: Dean Spielmann: ECtHR Jurisprudence and the Constitutional Systems of Europe


• 60: Jan-Werner Müller: Militant Democracy


• 61: Juan Mendez: Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice


• 62: Chibli Mallat: Islam and the Constitutional Order


• 63: Vlad Perju: Constitutional Transplants, Borrowing, and Migrations


• 64: Gabor Halmai: The Use of Foreign Law in Constitutional Interpretation

Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he is also Director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory. He is the co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Constitutional Law and the author or co-editor of numerous books, including Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (2010) and The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture and Community (2009). Professor Rosenfeld is the recipient of the French government's highest and most prestigious award, the Legion of Honour.
András Sajó is a judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg. He is also a University Professor at CEU and Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University Law School. Professor Sajó was the founding dean of Legal Studies at CEU. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including, with Michel Rosenfeld, Norman Dawson, and Susanne Baer, Comparative Constitutions: Cases and Materials (2003).