Sociological Constitutionalism

Paul Blokker, Chris Thornhill

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781107124042
• eBook ISBN: 9781108515207
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Public Law
• Index: Law

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Sociological Constitutionalism: An Introduction
• Part I National Constitutions and Sociological Method
• Part II Constitutional Sociology between the National and the Transnational
• Part III Constitutional Law and Transnational Society
• Index