Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law

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General editor: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, and Rüdiger Wolfrum

Provides comprehensive analysis of constitutional law topics in a comparative context
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law

General editor: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, and Rüdiger Wolfrum

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The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law is a new product within the Oxford Constitutional Law family. This online encyclopedia of analytical comparative articles offers a global overview of constitutional law in a comparative context. Developed with constitutional lawyers, academics, and students in mind, the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law provides seamless navigation between encyclopedia articles, linking to commentaries and instruments from the Oxford Constitutions of the World and US Constitutional Law products, as well as through reference pages on the Oxford Law Citator.

While Oxford Constitutional Law already offers our leading constitutional law books, comprehensive and updated constitutional texts, and jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction commentary on those primary materials, the addition of the new encyclopedia will provide a high level of analytical coverage of constitutional law topics in a comparative context. The encyclopedia articles-modeled on those in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and edited by the same team located at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law-address a focused range of topics that seek to provide the best coverage of the essence, character, development, and history of constitutional law from a global perspective. The articles will define and cover the basis and foundations of state formation and constitutional law, as well as analyzing and explaining on a global comparative perspective the underlying legal concepts such as: human rights; constitutional formation; scope of state protections; the defining structures of governmental makeup; types of legal structures and interactions within a constitutional law system; and legal constitutional concepts that make up constitutional law.

In addition, articles will provide insight and detail into key cases that have contributed to or advanced constitutional law concepts on a global scale such as Brown v. Board of Education (United States), Mizrahi Bank Case (Israel), the Minerva Mills Case (India), and Marbury v. Madison (United States). The articles will also cover key instruments in constitutional law history such as the Magna Carta, the Charter of Medina, and the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, among others.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law will provide browsing and searching of all of the material within the resource based on keywords and subjects. Content is also connected to the Oxford Law Citator: a state-of-the-art navigation tool which provides direct links to related materials within MPECCoL, other online law resources from OUP, and important references available elsewhere.

Your launchpad for global constitutional research

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law

General editor: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, and Rüdiger Wolfrum

Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum, General Editor, Director, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Former Director, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Prof. Dr. Rainer Grote, LL.M. (Edinburgh), General Editor, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Adjunct Professor of Public Law, University of Göttingen

Dr. Frauke Lachenmann, Managing Editor, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law

Contributors:

Advisory Board
An advisory board providing peer review of all entries in the encyclopedia consists of:

Prof. David J. Attard is a member of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Director of the IMO International Maritime Law Institute, Malta.
Prof. Manuel José Cepeda Espinosa is the former Chief Justice of the Colombian Constitutional Court. He was Ambassador of Colombia to UNESCO and served as Dean of the Universidad de los Andes Law School.
Prof. Jongik Chon is Professor at the Seoul National University School of Law.
Prof. James Crawford is Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. He was elected as Judge of the International Court of Justice and took his seat on the Court on the 6 February 2015. He was formerly Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, also at Cambridge. He was a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission and Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility.
Prof. Charles Manga Fombad is Professor of Law at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA), University of Pretoria. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL).
Prof. Babacar Kanté is Professor at the University Gaston Berger, St. Louis, Senegal, and former Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Senegal.
Prof. Hanno Kube is Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of Financial Law and Tax Law, Heidelberg University.
Prof. David E. Landau is Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs at Florida State University College of Law.
Dr. Liora Lazarus, BA (UCT), LLB (LSE), DPhil (Oxon), is Associate Professor in Law, and a Fellow of St. Anne's College.
Sundaresh Menon is the Chief Justice of Singapore and a former Attorney-General of Singapore.
Prof. Fred L. Morrison taught at the University of Iowa College of Law before joining the University of Minnesota Law School faculty in 1969. He is a Director of the American Society for the Comparative Study of Law.
Prof. Suzie Navot is Professor of Constitutional Law and Parliamentary Law. She teaches at the College of Management Academic Studies, Striks School of Law, in Rishon Lezion, Israel.
Prof. Jasna Omejec is the President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia. She was full professor at the Faculty of Law, Zagreb University. In 2014 she was elected member of the Enlarged Bureau of the Venice Commission.
Prof. Francisco Orrego Vicuña is a Judge and former President of the Administrative Tribunal of the World Bank; Professor of International Law, Law School of the University of Chile; former Director of the Institute of International Studies of the University of Chile; former President of the Institut de Droit International.
Prof. Ergun Özbudun is Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law at ?stanbul ?ehir University, Turkey. He has also taught at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Princeton University.
Padma Bhushan Dr. Patibandla Chandrasekhara Rao is Judge and former President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
Prof. Volker Röben is Professor of Public International Law at the College of Law and Criminology, Swansea University, Wales.
Prof. Cheryl Saunders is a laureate professor and holds a personal chair in law at the Law School of the the University of Melbourne. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies. She is a President Emeritus of the International Association of Constitutional Law, a former President of the International Association of Centres for Federal Studies, a former President of the Administrative Review Council of Australia and a current member of the Advisory Board of International IDEA.
Prof. Adrienne Stone holds a Chair at Melbourne Law School where she is also an ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow and Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
Prof. Thio Li-ann is a Professor of Law (Provost's Chair) at the National University of Singapore.
Prof. Konstantine Vardzelashvili is Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Georgia. He is a member of the Human Rights Committee (CCPR) for the term 2013-2016.
Prof. Erika de Wet is Co-Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa and Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria. She further lectures in international law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Bonn (Germany) on a regular basis.

Your launchpad for global constitutional research

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law

General editor: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, and Rüdiger Wolfrum

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