Constitutional Jurisprudence

After the Continental-European type of specialised constitutional courts has globally largely prevailed over the past two decades (at least beyond the Anglo-Saxon world), constitutional courts increasingly decided questions with far-reaching political consequences in various political settings. In this respect, a general tendency towards the judicialization of politics is embodied particularly clearly in the institution of constitutional courts. Correspondingly, role and performance of constitutional courts are increasingly challenged in political debate in a range of political settings and became one of the most interesting topics in recent academic discourses on constitutional theory. Despite their common roots in a few models these courts vary widely in their role within the constitutional system, their functions and their effective performance. Against this background the contributions collected in this volume address among others ? questions such as the constitutionalization of the legal system and the increasing politicalization of constitutional courts. The contributions refer to the constitutional systems of Cambodia, Croatia, Germany Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, Poland, Spain, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Practice-oriented perspectives are provided by the contributions of incumbent or former constitutional court justices among the authors (from Cambodia, Croatia, and Poland).

Contributors:
Slavica Banic (Richterin, Verfassungsgericht, Kroatien), Byung-Song Cho (?ffentliches Recht, Cheongju Univ., S?dkorea), Jong-ik Chon (?ffentliches Recht, Seoul National Univ., S?dkorea), Ingwer Ebsen (?ffentliches Recht, Univ. Frankfurt a.M., Deutschland), Robert Esser (Deutsches, Europ?isches und Internationales Strafrecht, Univ. Passau, Deutschland), Yasuo Hasebe (?ffentliches Recht, Tokyo Univ., Japan), Matthias Jestaedt (?ffentliches Recht, Univ. Freiburg, Deutschland), Bartosz Makowicz (?ffentliches Recht, Europa Univ. Viadrina, Deutschland), Van Quang Nguyen (?ffentliches Recht, Hanoi Law University, Vietnam), Javier Garcia Roca (?ffentliches Recht, Complutense Univ. Madrid, Spanien), Osama Siddique (Verfassungsrecht, Lahore Univ. of Management Sciences, Pakistan), Son Soubert (Privy Councillor to His Majesty the King of Cambodia, Kambodscha), Heru Susetyo (?ffentliches Recht, Univ. Indonesia, Indonesien), Miroslaw Wyrzykowski (?ffentliches Recht, Univ. Warschau, Polen), Jiunn-rong Yeh (?ffentliches Recht, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan)