Product Description: New Beginnings covers Irish constitutional development from Home Rule to the Good Friday Agreement, focusing on turning points where radical constitutional change was discussed, attempted, or implemented. It asks what Irish constitution-makers were trying to do in drafting constitutional documents, or significantly amending existing constitutions...read more

Product Description: How can societies still grappling over the common values and shared vision of their state draft a democratic constitution? This is the central puzzle of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies. While most theories discuss constitution-making in the context of a moment of revolutionary change, Hanna Lerner argues that an incrementalist approach to constitution-making can enable societies riven by deep internal disagreements to either enact a written constitution or function with an unwritten one...read more

Product Description: A discussion of the fundamental laws of three liberal democratic states - Canada, Ireland and Italy - and the role played by the highest judicial authorities of those states in interpreting the law. The interpretations given are significant for the states, and frequently involve unexpected interpretations of the law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: To mark the 60th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland, this collection of essays covers the most significant aspects of Irish constitutional law and jurisprudence. It offers an insight into the changing role of the constitution in Ireland over the past 60 years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)