Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges
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First Statement of Responsibility
/ edited by Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau
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UK
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: Hart Publishing Ltd
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, 2013.
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[v]. xxxviii, 431 p.
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: ill
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(Hart studies in comparative public law
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; v
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Introduction :the methodology of the research : how to assess the reality of transjudicial communication? /Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau --Pt. 1:Reference to foreign precedents by the Australian High Court: a matter of method /Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone.--Canada: protecting rights in a "worldwide rights culture", an empirical study of the use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court of Canada (1982-2010) /Gianluca Gentili --India: a "critical" use of foreign precedents in constitutional adjudication /Valentina Rita Scotti --The Supreme Court of Ireland and the use of foreign precedents: the value of constitutional history /Cristina Fasone --Israel: creating a constitution: the use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court (1994-2010) /Suzie Navot --Namibia: the Supreme Court as a foreign law importer /Irene Spigno --South Africa: teaching an "old dog" new tricks? an empirical study of the use of foreign precedents by the South African Constitutional Court (1995-2010) /Christa Rautenbach --Pt. 2:Austria: non-cosmopolitan, but Europe-friendly: the Constitutional Court's comparative approach /Anna Gamper --Lifting the constitutional curtain? the use of foreign precedent by the German Federal Constitutional Court /Stefan Martini --Hungary: unsystematic and incoherent borrowing of law: the use of foreign judicial precedents in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, 1999-2010 /Zoltaan Szente --A gap between the apparent and hidden attitudes of the Supreme Court of Japan towards foreign precedents /Akiko Ejima --Mexico: struggling for an open view in constitutional adjudication /Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor and Rubaen Saanchez Gil --Romania: analogical reasoning as a dialectical instrument /Elena Simina Tanasescu and Stefan Deaconu --Russia: foreign transplants in the Russian Constitution and invisible foreign precedents in decisions of the Russian Constitutional Court /Sergey Belov --Judges as discursive agent: the use of foreign precedents by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan /Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh --United States of America: first cautious attempts of judicial use of foreign precedents in the Supreme Court's jurisprudence /Angioletta Sperti --Conclusion:The use of foreign precedents by constitutional judges: a limited practice, an uncertain future /Tania Groppi and Marie-Clair Ponthoreau.