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Sociological Constitutionalism

Paul Blokker editor Chris Thornhill editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Dec '18

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This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of key research in the sociology of constitutions.

Written for researchers and advanced students in constitutional law, this book provides a broad systematic overview of leading scholarly contributions to sociological constitutionalism. A landmark publication, it provides conceptual impetus for the advancement of constitutional sociology and contributes to key debates on the changing nature of constitutionalism.This landmark book provides the first systematic overview of the key scholarly contributions in an emerging field of research on constitutionalism: the sociology of constitutions. It presents chapters offering very different normative and methodological approaches to constitutions, ranging from analysis of national constitutional law, to research on transnational legal forms, to discussions of the constitutional impact of international human rights law. The book makes an important contribution to a series of wider debates - spanning constitutional law, legal theory, comparative constitutionalism, sociology, and political science - about the changing nature of constitutionalism. Researchers and students in constitutional law will gain a comprehensive appreciation of a diverse range of distinctively sociological approaches to constitutional law and an in-depth understanding of distinctive sociological dimensions of constitutions. The book offers insights into the sources of constitutional normativity in society and it proposes different sociological methods for addressing them.

ISBN: 9781107561144

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 20mm

Weight: 540g

367 pages