KDEC 5035 - Comparative constitutional review

This seminar introduces to the comparative analysis of constitutional justice. By focusing on the power the judges are granted when they are able to quash the actions of political majorities in the name of the constitution, it tries and understand the emergence of a new form of polity. Who exercises constitutional review, how and with what normative effects for the protection of fundamental rights and with what consequences for the traditional understanding of the separation of powers are among the questions that are addressed. As well as problems regarding the legitimacy of courts' intervention in major societal debates (bioethics, minority rights, etc.), methodological discussions concerning comparative law, classification, constitutional interpretation, the interactions between national constitutional courts and supranational courts, and the strategic analysis of law are considered.
Guillaume TUSSEAU
Séminaire
English
Readings for each course.
Autumn 2022-2023
Continuous assessment : 100 % of the final grade. Participation to the debates in the classroom + final paper (4,000 words).
Brewer-Carias A.R., Judicial Review in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1989, xvii + p. 406
Corrado M. L., Comparative Constitutional Review. Cases and Materials, Durham (North Carolina), Carolina Academic Press, coll. "Comparative Law Series", 2005, xvii + p.243
De Visser M., Constitutional Review in Europe. A Comparative Analysis, Oxford, Portland, Hart, 2014, xiii + p. 484
Guillaume Tusseau, Contentieux constitutionnel comparé, Paris, Lextenso, 2021.
Contre les « modèles » de justice constitutionnelle. Essai de critique méthodologique / Modelli di giustizia costituzionale. Saggio di critica metodologica, pref. L. Pegoraro, éd. bilingue, trad. it. A. Morandini, Bologna, Bononia University Press, coll.
Luchterhaudt O., Starck C., Weber A. (Hrsg.), Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Mittel-und Osteuropa, 2. Bd., Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2007, p. 745
Pegoraro L., Giustizia costituzionale comparata, 2a ed., Torino, G. Giappichelli, coll. « Le frontiere del diritto », Quaderno n. 1, nuova serie, 2007, x + p. 262
Starck C., Weber A. (Hrsg.), Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit in Westeuropa, 2. Bd., 2 Aufl
Baden-Baden, Nomos, « Studien und Materialien zur Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit », 2007, p. 1081
Tusseau G., Contre les « modèles » de justice constitutionnelle. Essai de critique méthodologique / Modelli di giustizia costituzionale. Saggio di critica metodologica, pref. L
Cappelletti M., Judicial Review in the Contemporary World, Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1971, xv + 117
Fernández Segado, La Justicia constitucional. Una visión de derecho comparado, Madrid, Dykinson, 3 Vol., 2009.