Month: May 2015

I have invited Ran Hirschl, member of our Editorial Board, to write the Editorial for this issue. His contribution follows below. “Remembrance of Things Past” A couple of years ago in these pages, I published an extended Editorial outlining the analytical and methodological need to move beyond a text- or court-centric comparative constitutional law to a more holistic comparative constitutional studies.

I.CON  Volume 13 Issue 1  Table of Contents Editorial I·CON Keynote Dieter Grimm, The role of fundamental rights after sixty-five years of constitutional jurisprudence in Germany Articles Arthur Dyevre, Technocracy and distrust: Revisiting the rationale for constitutional review Yan Lin, Constitutional evolution through legislation: The quiet transition of China’s Constitution Theunis Roux, American ideas abroad: Comparative implications of US Supreme Court decision-making models Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe Michel Rosenfeld, Wojciech Sadurski and Roberto Toniatti, Central and Eastern European constitutionalism a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall: Introduction to the Symposium Anna Śledzińska-Simon, Constitutional identity in 3D: A model of individual, relational, and collective self and its application in Poland Piotr Szwedo, Global administrative law through the Polish lens: From practice to theory Jiří Přibáň, The semantics of constitutional sovereignty in post-sovereign “new” Europe: A case study of the Czech Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence Armen Mazmanyan, Judicialization of politics: The post-Soviet way Bojan Bugarič, A crisis of constitutional democracy in post-communist Europe: “Lands in-between” democracy and authoritarianism Vlad Perju, The Romanian double executive and the 2012 constitutional crisis Renáta Uitz, Can you tell when an illiberal democracy is in the making?