The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Rosalind Dixon (editor), Adrienne Stone (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 594
• Series: Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Constitutions worldwide inevitably have 'invisible' features: they have silences and lacunae, unwritten or conventional underpinnings, and social and political dimensions not apparent to certain observers. The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective helps us understand these dimensions to contemporary constitutions, and their role in the interpretation, legitimacy and stability of different constitutional systems. This volume provides a nuanced theoretical discussion of the idea of 'invisibility' in a constitutional context, and its relationship to more traditional understandings of written versus unwritten constitutionalism. Containing a rich array of case studies, including discussions of constitutional practice in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Indonesia, Ireland and Malaysia, this book will look at how this aspect of 'invisible constitutions' is manifested across different jurisdictions.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Part I: Conceptualising the Invisible Constitution
1 The Invisible Constitution in Comparative Perspective • Rosalind Dixon and Adrienne Stone
2 Soundings and Silences • Laurence H. Tribe
3 Originalism and the Invisible Constitution • Lawrence B. Solum
4 The Implicit and the Implied in a Written Constitution • Jeffrey Goldsworthy
5 The Centrality and Diversity of the Invisible Constitution • Patrick Emerton
6 Interim Constitutions and the Invisible Constitution • Caitlin Goss
Part II: The View from Asia Pacific and the Middle East
7 Behind the Text of the Basic Law: Some Constitutional Fundamentals • Johannes M. M. Chan
8 The Constitutional Orders of ‘One Country, Two Systems’: A Comparative Study of the Visible and Invisible Bases of Constitutional Review and Proportionality Analysis in the Chinese Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau • Albert H. Y. Chen and P. Y. Lo
9 The Platonic Conception of the Israeli Constitution • Iddo Porat
10 The Indonesian Constitutional Court: Implying Rights from the ‘Rule of Law’ • Simon Butt
11 Is the Invisible Constitution Really Invisible? Some Reflections in the Context of Korean Constitutional Adjudication • Jongcheol Kim
12 Constitutional Implications in Australia: Explaining the Structure – Rights Dualism • Rosalind Dixon and Gabrielle Appleby
13 Malaysia’s Invisible Constitution • Yvonne Tew
14 The ‘Invisible Constitution’ seen Realistically: Visualising China’s Unitary System • Han Zhai
Part III: The View from Europe and North America
15 The Evolution of Natural Law in Ireland • Eoin Carolan
16 “Additive Judgments”: A Way to Make the Invisible Content of the Italian Constitution Visible • Irene Spigno
17 Germany’s German Constitution • Russell A. Miller
18 Unwritten Constitutional Principles in Canada: Genuine or Strategic? • David Schneiderman
19 Lost in Transition: Invisible Constitutionalism in Hungary • Gábor Attila Tóth
Index