Constitutional law
As a constitutional law in which it is general political theory , political science and comparative constitutional doctrine of the legal foundations of a state or designated by States themselves. This includes above all the doctrine of the organization of the state . The constitutional foundations are regularly laid down in a constitutional document (constitution in the formal sense) ; as a state without a written constitution, d. H. the United Kingdom is only to be mentioned with a constitution in the material sense . Primarily in the countries of the German legal circle , a distinction is made between constitutional law in general and constitutional law in particular (see the distinction between constitutional law and constitutional law ).
Individual representations
- Germany: Constitutional Law (Germany)
- Austria: Federal Constitution (Austria) or State Constitution (Austria)
- Switzerland: Constitutional Law (Switzerland)
- United States of America: Constitutional Law (United States)
See also
literature
Text collections
- Albert P. Blaustein et al .: Constitutions of the Countries of the World . Oceana, New York, ISBN 0-379-00467-4 .
Comparative law
- Monica Claes: Constitutional law . In: Jan M. Smits (Ed.): Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham / Northampton, MA 2006, ISBN 978-1-84542-013-0 , pp. 187-199 .
- Peter Häberle : Constitution as a public process . 3rd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-08491-8 .
- Peter Häberle: Constitutional Studies as Cultural Studies . 2nd edition, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-428-09202-3 .
- Peter Häberle: European constitutional theory . 7th edition, Nomos , Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8329-6218-0 .
- Bernd Wieser: Comparative constitutional law . Springer, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-27753-6 .
- Robert Chr. Van Ooyen: Politics and Constitution . VS Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006.
- Kenneth Robert Redden : Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia . Buffalo, New York, ISBN 0-89941-300-5 .
- Gerhard Robbers (Ed.): Encyclopedia of World Constitutions . 3 vols., Facts on File Publ., New York 2006 (English).
- Mark Tushnet: Comparative Constitutional Law . In: Mathias Reimann and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.): Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-0-19-953545-3 , pp. 1225-1258 .
- Peter Häberle (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the public law of the present . Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen.
- Brun-Otto Bryde et al. (Ed.): Constitution and Law in Übersee (VRÜ). Quarterly for questions d. Constitutional Legal development d. States of Asia, Africa and the like Latin America = Law and politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America , Nomos, Baden-Baden.
- Michel Rosenfeld et al. (Ed.): International Journal of Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press, ISSN 1474-2659 (English).
