Constitutional Courts in Comparison

The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-273-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 316 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right. The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation.

This updated and revised second edition includes a number of new contributions on the political status of the courts in their democratic political cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogowski, Ralf

Gawron, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Verfassungsgeschichte, Verfassungsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword (second edition)

Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Gawron

Foreword (first edition)

Mark Tushnet

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Chapter 1. Constitutional Litigation as Dispute Processing - Comparing the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court

Ralf Rogowski and Thomas Gawron

PART I: ACCESS AND CASE SELECTION

Chapter 2. Constitutional Litigation in the United States

Robert A. Kagan and Gregory Elinson

Chapter 3. Access to the German Federal Constitutional Court

Werner Heun

Chapter 4. Mobilization of the German Federal Constitutional Court

Erhard Blankenburg

PART II: DECISION MAKING

Chapter 5. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Strategic Decision Making Process

Timothy Johnson and Maron Sorenson

Chapter 6. Decision making at the German Federal Constitutional Court

Uwe Kranenpohl

Chapter 7. Junior Varsity Judges? Law Clerks in the Decisional Process of the U.S. Supreme Court

Artemus Ward

Chapter 8. The Legal Assistants at the German Federal Constitutional Court: A “Black Box” of Research?

Otwin Massing

PART III: IMPLEMENTATION

Chapter 9. The Implementation of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

Lawrence Baum

Chapter 10. Implementation of German Federal Constitutional Court Decisions - Judicial Orders and the Federal Legislature

Thomas Gawron and Ralf Rogowski

PART IV: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES

Chapter 11. The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court - Selection, Nomination and Election of Justices

Klaus Stüwe

Chapter 12. The Impact of the German Federal Constitutional Court on Consolidation and Quality of Democracy

Sascha Kneip

Chapter 13. Constitutional Courts in Changing Political Systems

Hans J. Lietzmann

List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rogowski, Ralf
Ralf Rogowski is Director of the Law and Sociology Programme and Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. His recent books include The Shape of the New Europe (co-authored 2004), Die Wirkung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (Co-authored with T. Gawron 2007), Reflexive Labour Law in the World Society (2013), and The Sustainability of the European Social Model (Co-edited 2015).

Gawron, Thomas
Thomas Gawron is Lecturer in law at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (HTW), Berlin. He has published Die Wirkung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (Co-authored with R. Rogowski 2007).

Ralf Rogowski is Director of the Law and Sociology Programme and Professor of Law in the School of Law at the University of Warwick. His recent books include The Shape of the New Europe (co-authored 2004), Die Wirkung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (Co-authored with T. Gawron 2007), Reflexive Labour Law in the World Society (2013), and The Sustainability of the European Social Model (Co-edited 2015).