Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments - The Limits of Amendment Powers

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? Using theoretical and comparative approaches, Roznai establishes the nature and scope of constitutional amendment powers by focusing on substantive limitations, looking at their prevalence in practice and the conceptual coherence of the very idea of limitations to constitutional amendment powers.

About the author

Yaniv Roznai is a senior lecturer at the Radzyner Law School of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC). He specializes in comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, legisprudence, and public international law. Roznai holds a PhD and LLM from the London School of Economics, and LLB and BA degrees in law and government from the IDC. He is also an elected board member and secretary general of the Israeli Association of Public Law. He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions, University of Haifa, and at the Hauser Global Law School, New York University, and a visiting researcher at the Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University. This book is based upon his PhD for which he was awarded the 2014 Thesis Prize of the European Group of Public Law.

Summary

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? Using theoretical and comparative approaches, Roznai establishes the nature and scope of constitutional amendment powers by focusing on substantive limitations, looking at their prevalence in practice and the conceptual coherence of the very idea of limitations to constitutional amendment powers.

Additional text

Yaniv Roznai's Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: The Limits of Amendment Powers, is, to my knowledge, the first book to deal with these problems and questions [raised by constitutional unamendability] from both a theoretical and comparative (global) perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Yaniv Roznai, Yaniv (Assistant Professor Roznai, Roznai Yaniv
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780198840664
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884066-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford Constitutional Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / Constitutional, Comparative Politics, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law