Comparative Constitutional Change
About the Book Series
Comparative Constitutional Change has developed into a distinct field of constitutional law. It encompasses the study of constitutions through the way they change and covers a wide scope of topics and methodologies. Books in this series include work on developments in the functions of the constitution, the organization of powers and the protection of rights, as well as research that focuses on formal amendment rules and the relation between constituent and constituted power. The series includes comparative approaches along with books that focus on single jurisdictions, and brings together research monographs and edited collections which allow the expression of different schools of thought. While the focus is primarily on law, where relevant the series may also include political science, historical, philosophical and empirical approaches that explore constitutional change.
Xenophon Contiades is Professor of Public Law, Panteion University, Athens, Greece and Managing Director, Centre for European Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece.
Thomas Fleiner is Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Alkmene Fotiadou is Research Associate at the Centre for European Constitutional Law, Athens, Greece.
Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
The Law and Politics of Constitution Making: Lessons from Chile
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Alemán, Sebastián Soto Velasco
November 25, 2025
This collection examines Chile’s two recent efforts to replace its constitution, both of which ultimately failed despite broad initial support. Drawing global media and scholarly attention, these high-profile processes offer critical lessons for understanding the challenges of democratic ...
Legal Resistance to Autocracy: The Global Fight to Save Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Octávio Luiz Motta Ferraz, Natasha Lindstaedt, David Trubek, Oscar Vilhena Vieira
October 20, 2025
This book focuses on resistance to autocratization, a less well-researched and understood topic than the rise of authoritarianism. As the editors and authors of this book have experienced both through their academic research and personal lives in autocratizing countries, autocratization does not ...
Constitutional Law and the Politics of Ethnic Accommodation: Institutional Design in Afghanistan
1st Edition
By Bashir Mobasher
May 27, 2025
This book explores whether the legal and political institutions of Afghanistan were able to incorporate diverse ethnic groups into the political process. Ethnic accommodation has gained central stage in the literature on institutional design and democratic consolidation. However, some divided ...
EU Law and National Constitutions: The Constitutional Dynamics of Multi-Level Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Alberto Nicòtina, Patricia Popelier, Peter Bursens
May 27, 2025
This book provides an in-depth guide to researchers and practitioners who are interested in analysing the evolution of EU law from a national and comparative constitutional law perspective. The volume deals with questions of how EU member states’ constitutional systems, including the subnational ...
Internationalised Constitution Making and State Formation: Negotiating Peace and Statehood in South Sudan and Somaliland
1st Edition
By Katrin Seidel
March 31, 2025
This book presents an in-depth and nuanced interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of (post-)conflict constitution-making in South Sudan and Somaliland, exploring the ways in which the two emerging states negotiate statehood in a globalised world. It critically examines the transfer of ...
A History of the Constitution of Bangladesh: The Founding, Development, and Way Ahead
1st Edition
Edited
By Ridwanul Hoque, Rokeya Chowdhury
December 18, 2024
Marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's Constitution, this book gauges its development from 1972 to 2022, focusing on its foundational goals, performances, and current challenges. The collection, presenting diverse but issue-specific chapters, shows how the people, political parties and ...
Accommodating Diversity in Multilevel Constitutional Orders: Legal Mechanisms of Divergence and Convergence
1st Edition
Edited
By Maja Sahadžić, Marjan Kos, Jaka Kukavica, Jakob Gašperin Wischhoff, Julian Scholtes
December 18, 2024
This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contrasting interests of diversity and unity and the converging or diverging effects they may have on the functioning of a multilevel constitutional order. It ...
Constitutionality of Law without a Constitutional Court: A View from Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Mirosław Granat
December 18, 2024
This book analyses the problem of the possibility of guaranteeing the constitutionality of law in cases when a constitutional court either has been weakened or does not exist. A starting point of the research is the emergence of the so-called illiberal constitutionalism in several states, namely ...
Constitutional Law and Politics of Secession
1st Edition
Edited
By Antoni Abat i Ninet
November 29, 2024
This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of secession in constitutional and international law. The work proposes a new approach and insights into the existing literature that fill a gap from ...
Challenges to EU Values in Hungary: How the European Union Misunderstood the Government of Viktor Orbán
1st Edition
By Beáta Bakó
August 26, 2024
The national-conservative government of Hungary has been heavily criticised for its violation of EU values, primarily, the rule of law in recent years. This book looks to the bigger picture in examining the rule-of-law debate between Hungary and the EU. It explores how certain elements of various ...
Supermajority Voting in Constitutional Courts: The Problem of Majority Rule for Democracy and Legislation
1st Edition
By Cristóbal Caviedes
August 02, 2024
This book challenges the wide use of majority rule in many constitutional courts for declaring statutes unconstitutional and argues that these courts should rather perform constitutional review by using supermajority rules. Considering that constitutional courts often tackle hard moral issues, it ...
Constitutional Origin and Norm Creation in Colombia: Discursive Institutionalism and the Empowerment of the Constitutional Court
1st Edition
By Jan Boesten
January 29, 2024
This book explains the growing empowerment of the Colombian Constitutional Court in the early years of the 21st century and develops the concept of the deliberative judge. Taking the case of the Colombian Constitutional Court and drawing on neoinstitutional theory to explain the relationship ...