Frankenberg, Günter --- "Order from Transfer" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) [2013] ELECD 878

Editor(s): Frankenberg, Günter

Title: Order from Transfer

Sub-title: Comparative Constitutional Design and Legal Culture

Series: Studies in Comparative Law and Legal Culture series

Topics: Development Studies; Comparative Law; Constitutional and Administrative Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 30 July 2013

Number of pages: 384

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781952108

EISBN: 9781781952115

Abstract/Description:

Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theoretical questions, methodological problems and political projects connected with the transfer of constitutions and law.

Some of the chapters focus on the pathways, risks and side-effects of legal-constitutional transfers in specific situations, such as postcolonial societies and occupied territories. Others follow law beyond the official arenas into systems of legal pluralism, while others analyze how experimentalism generates hybrid constitutional orders.

This interdisciplinary, multi-jurisdictional study will appeal to researchers, academics and advanced students in the fields of comparative constitutional law, comparative law and legal theory.