Víctor Ferreres Comella contrasts the European 'centralised' constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudicate constitutional questio

This book presents a searching critique of excessive reliance on courts as 'democracy-builders' in states emerging from authoritarian rule.

This book illuminates how law and politics interact in the judicial doctrines and explores how democracy sustains and is sustained by the exercise of judicial p

A comparative perspective of role played by three generations of European Constitutional Courts in the process of transition to democracy.

The power of national and transnational constitutional courts to issue binding rulings in interpreting the constitution or an international treaty has been endl