Constitutional topography
Subtitle: values and constitutions
By: edited by András Sajó & Renáta Uitz
Series: Issues in constitutional law -- v. 6; Issues in constitutional law -- v. 6.
Publisher: Eleven International Pub.; Sold and distributed in the USA and Canada [by] International Specialized Book Services; Eleven International Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: The Hague, Netherlands; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9789077596920
Notes: "Earlier versions of the papers collected in this volume were presented in Budapest in 2008 at the 16th The Individual v. the State conference."--p. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Constitutional morality and judicial review  -- Will J. Waluchow; title: Constitutionalism and value theory  -- András Szigeti; title: The only constitution and its many enemies  -- Otto Pfersmann; title: Constitutional specificity, unwritten understandings and constitutional agreement  -- Tom Ginsburg; title: The constitution as a theory of society in a society : a reflection after twenty years of democratic changes in East Central Europe  -- Grażyna Skąpska; title: Values for a valueless society : constitutional morality after collective crime  -- Nenad Dimitrijevic; title: Should rights shape societies and their values, or should societal values shape rights? : an examination of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights  -- Eva Brems; title: Axiological aspects of the Russian constitution  -- Valery Zorkin; title: Behind the constitution? : the principle of constitutional identity in France  -- Michel Troper; title: The constitutional value system and social values in South Africa  -- Theunis Roux; title: Individual autonomy as a constitutional value : fundamental assumptions revisited  -- Renáta Uitz and Orsolya Salát; title: Contested concepts : equality and dignity in the case-law of the Canadian Supreme Court and South African Constitutional Court  -- Murray Wesson; title: The judge as moral arbiter? : the case of abortion  -- Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld; title: Intuition as axiological source : a case study from gay rights  -- Suzanne B. Goldberg; title: The dictatorship of the obscure? Values and the secular adjudication of fundamental rights  -- Matthias Mahlmann; title: Are religious sensitivities above the constitution? Reflections on the collective defamation of religious people  -- Guy Haarscher; title: Principles of law and law out of principles in social and economic policy : constitutional courts and legislatures as friends and foes in constitutional politics -- Gadis Gadzhiev.