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Zusatztext This is a wonderful collection of unfailingly engaging and interesting essays! virtually every one of them making a substantial contribution to the subject matter it discusses. The book will serve as a landmark in modern constitutional theory and its influence will inevitably reach far into the future and wide into legal systems of the world. Informationen zum Autor David Dyzenhaus is University Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of four books and many essays at the intersection of political philosophy, legal philosophy, and public law theory. In 2014/15 he was the Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science in the Faculty of Law, Cambridge University. Malcolm Thorburn is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. Until 2012, he held the Canada Research Chair in Crime, Security and Constitutionalism at Queen's University. He has been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University (2008); Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich (2011); the French National Centre for Criminology (CESDIP), Paris (2011); and Magdalen College, Oxford (2011-12). He is an associate editor of the New Criminal Law Review and a member ofthe editorial boards of Law and Philosophy and Criminal Law and Philosophy. Klappentext A collection of essays from leading constitutional lawyers and theorists, examining the philosophical foundations of constitutional law and the issues that arise from the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the idea of a constitution. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays from leading constitutional lawyers and theorists, examining the philosophical foundations of constitutional law and the issues that arise from the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the idea of a constitution.
