Constitution Transformation
25 Pages Posted: 2 Dec 2019
Date Written: November 29, 2019
Abstract
This essay explores the extent to which if at all, the very concept of a constitution is undergoing change in the conditions of globalisation that characterise the early decades of the 21st century, to the extent that might be described as transformation. The question is prompted both by familiar manifestations of the interdependence of domestic constitutional and international law and practice and by the interpretation placed on them by some of the literature on global constitutionalism. Some, although by no means all of the literature and the experience on which it draws relate to the extent of transnational influence on the way in which constitutions now are made or changed: constitution transformation in the narrow, or more particular, sense.
Keywords: constitutional law, international law, transformation
JEL Classification: K00, K39
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