Expounding the constitution
Subtitle: essays in constitutional theory
By: edited by Grant Huscroft.
Contributors: Huscroft, Grant.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780521887410
Subjects: Judicial review; Constitutional law
Description: "Essays arising out of the 2006 Public Law and Legal Philosophy colloquium on law and morality ..."--Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What does constitutional interpretation interpret? / Steven D. Smith; title: Do judges reason morally? / Jeremy Waldron; title: Constitutional morality and bills of rights / W.J. Waluchow; title: Justification and rights limitations / Bradley W. Miller; title: Constitutions, judicial review, moral rights, and democracy : disentangling the issues / Larry Alexander; title: The incoherencies of constitutional positivism / David Dyzenhaus; title: The travails of Justice Waldron / James Allan; title: Deference rather than defiance : the limits of the judicial role in constitutional adjudication / Aileen Kavanagh; title: Constitutional justice and the concept of law / T.R.S. Allan; title: Written constitutions and unwritten constitutionalism / Mark D. Walters; title: Unwritten constitutional principles / Jeffrey Goldsworthy.