Chris Thornhill Edited by Paul BlokkerCambridge University Press, 9/30/2017EAN 9781107124042, ISBN10: 1107124042Hardcover, 300 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.4 cmLanguage: EnglishThis landmark book provides the first systematic overview of the key scholarly contributions in an emerging field of research on constitutionalism: the sociology of constitutions. It presents chapters offering very different normative and methodological approaches to constitutions, ranging from analysis of national constitutional law, to research on transnational legal forms, to discussions of the constitutional impact of international human rights law. The book makes an important contribution to a series of wider debates - spanning constitutional law, legal theory, comparative constitutionalism, sociology, and political science - about the changing nature of constitutionalism. Researchers and students in constitutional law will gain a comprehensive appreciation of a diverse range of distinctively sociological approaches to constitutional law and an in-depth understanding of distinctive sociological dimensions of constitutions. The book offers insights into the sources of constitutional normativity in society and it proposes different sociological methods for addressing them.IntroductionSociological constitutionalism Paul Blokker and Chris ThornhillPart I. National Constitutions and Sociological Method1. The social lives of constitutions Kim Lane Scheppele2. Towards a sociology of constitutional transformation – understanding South Africa's post-Apartheid constitutional order Heinz Klug3. Sociological constitutionalism – an evolutionary approach Hauke BrunkhorstPart II. Constitutional Sociology between the National and the Transnational4. Constitutionalism between nation states and global law Chris Thornhill5. Politics and the political in sociological constitutionalism Paul Blokker6. Constitutions as symbolic orders – the cultural analysis of constitutionalism Hans Vorländer7. The rule of the marketeconomic constitutionalism understood sociologically Sabine FrerichsPart III. Constitutional Law and Transnational Society8. From constitutionalism to transconstitutionalismbeyond constitutional nationalism, cosmopolitan constitutional unity and fragmentary constitutional pluralism Marcelo Neves9. Societal constitutionalismnine variations on a theme by David Sciulli Gunther Teubner.
