TY  - BOOK
AU  - Groppi, Tania (ed.)
AU  - Groppi,Tania
AU  - Ponthoreau,Marie-Claire
TI  - Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges 
T2  - Hart studies in comparative public law
SN  - 9781849462716 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - K7680 .U82 2013
U1  - 342.03 GRO 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom, Portland, Or.
PB  - Hart Pub.
KW  - Judgments, Foreign
KW  - Stare decisis
KW  - Constitutional courts
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Introduction; the methodology of the research : how to assess the reality of transjudicial communication?; Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau --; Pt. 1; Reference to foreign precedents by the Australian High Court: a matter of method; Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone.--; Canada: protecting rights in a "worldwide rights culture", an empirical study of the use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court of Canada (1982-2010); Gianluca Gentili --; India: a "critical" use of foreign precedents in constitutional adjudication; Valentina Rita Scotti --; The Supreme Court of Ireland and the use of foreign precedents: the value of constitutional history; Cristina Fasone --; Israel: creating a constitution: the use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court (1994-2010); Suzie Navot --; Namibia: the Supreme Court as a foreign law importer; Irene Spigno --; South Africa: teaching an "old dog" new tricks? an empirical study of the use of foreign precedents by the South African Constitutional Court (1995-2010); Christa Rautenbach --; Pt. 2; Austria: non-cosmopolitan, but Europe-friendly: the Constitutional Court's comparative approach; Anna Gamper --; Lifting the constitutional curtain? the use of foreign precedent by the German Federal Constitutional Court; Stefan Martini --; Hungary: unsystematic and incoherent borrowing of law: the use of foreign judicial precedents in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, 1999-2010; Zoltán Szente --; A gap between the apparent and hidden attitudes of the Supreme Court of Japan towards foreign precedents; Akiko Ejima --; Mexico: struggling for an open view in constitutional adjudication; Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor and Rubén Sánchez Gil --; Romania: analogical reasoning as a dialectical instrument; Elena Simina Tanasescu and Stefan Deaconu --; Russia: foreign transplants in the Russian Constitution and invisible foreign precedents in decisions of the Russian Constitutional Court; Sergey Belov --; Judges as discursive agent: the use of foreign precedents by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan; Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh --; United States of America: first cautious attempts of judicial use of foreign precedents in the Supreme Court's jurisprudence; Angioletta Sperti --; Conclusion; The use of foreign precedents by constitutional judges: a limited practice, an uncertain future; Tania Groppi and Marie-Clair Ponthoreau
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