Routledge Research in Constitutional Law
About the Book Series
This series features thought-provoking and original scholarship on constitutional law and theory. Books explore key topics, themes and questions in the field with a particular emphasis on comparative studies. Where relevant, titles will engage with political and social theory, philosophy and history in order to offer a rounded analysis of constitutions and constitutional law.
Constitutional Law and Politics in Türkiye: From Atatürk to Erdoğan
1st Edition
By Valentina Rita Scotti
January 26, 2026
This monograph offers a comprehensive and critical examination of Türkiye’s constitutional trajectory from the late Ottoman Empire to the presidential regime under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Bridging legal history, political theory, and constitutional analysis, the author interrogates the persistent ...
Regional Accountability and Executive Power in Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcel Morabito, Guillaume Tusseau
September 29, 2025
This book discusses the major issues currently affecting the accountability of executive power in Europe. The work is divided into three parts. The first examines the territorial dimension including unitary, regional and federal. It discusses how territorial actors participate in strengthening or ...
Representative Democracy in Flux: Deconstructive Narratives from a Legal and Constitutional Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Belov
May 30, 2025
This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features – institutional and imaginary – and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality. The collection explores the constitutional imaginaries of representation. It outlines the main factors ...
Comparative Executive Power in Europe: Perspectives on Accountability from Law, History and Political Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcel Morabito, Guillaume Tusseau
December 19, 2024
This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. From a legal perspective, it wonders to what extent the forms of responsibility and accountability of executive power have evolved in ...
Constitutional Reform and Brexit
1st Edition
By Gary Wilson
November 28, 2024
This book examines the extent to which Brexit has impacted upon the operation of the British Constitution, prompting in turn consideration of how some of the factors which contributed to the outcome of the 2016 referendum, as well as the event of Brexit itself, might inform debates surrounding ...
Law, Localism, and the Constitution: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By John Stanton
October 07, 2024
Local government affects us all. Wherever we live, in towns, cities, villages, or the smallest of communities, there are locally elected councils tasked with representing people’s interests in the running of the local area. This involves, inter alia, providing public services, maintaining local ...
Human Rights Defenders and the Law: A Constitutional and International Legal Approach
1st Edition
By Núria Saura-Freixes
August 26, 2024
This book presents a comprehensive examination of the Declaration on Human Rights Defenders and provides an analysis of the level of its reflection in regional human rights systems. The work explores the development of the role of the individual in human rights protection since the 1998 United ...
Law and Philosophy of Language: Ordinariness of Law
1st Edition
By Pascal Richard
January 09, 2023
Academic legal production, when it focuses on the study of law, generally grasps this concept on the basis of a reference to positive law and its practice. This book differs clearly from these analyses and integrates the legal approach into the philosophy of normative language, philosophical ...
Sovereignty, Civic Participation, and Constitutional Law: The People versus the Nation in Belgium
1st Edition
Edited
By Brecht Deseure, Raf Geenens, Stefan Sottiaux
January 09, 2023
This book brings recent insights about sovereignty and citizen participation in the Belgian Constitution to scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, history, and politics. Throughout the Western world, there are increasing calls for greater citizen participation. Referendums, citizen councils, ...
Diversity of Law in the United Arab Emirates: Privacy, Security, and the Legal System
1st Edition
By Kristin Kamøy
August 01, 2022
This book examines the law and its practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The objective is to understand the logic of the legal system in the UAE through a rounded analysis of its laws in context. It thus presents an understanding of the system on its own terms beyond the accepted Western ...
Kant, Global Politics and Cosmopolitan Law: The World Republic as a Regulative Idea of Reason
1st Edition
By Claudio Corradetti
December 13, 2021
Why is there so much attention on Kant's global politics in present day law and philosophy? This book highlights the potential fruitfulness of Kant's cosmopolitan thought for understanding the complexities of the contemporary political world. It adopts a double methodological strategy by ...
Constitutional Law, Religion and Equal Liberty: The Impact of Desecularization
1st Edition
By Azin Tadjdini
June 30, 2021
During the 20th century many countries embarked on a process of constitutional secularization by which the role of religion gradually became limited. Yet, by the late 20th century, and increasingly following the end of the Cold War, this development began to be challenged. This book examines the ...