Syllabus/achievement requirements

Books from the reading list to be found in The Law Library (Oria).
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Be careful always to consult the reading list for complete information.

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Main literature

• Rosenfeld, Michele & Sajo, Andras, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2012) pp. 1-25; 1328-1347; 98-132; 547-575; chapter 29 or 30; 501-528; 689-717; 816-830, 1231-1253; 891-908; 1165-1208; (286)
• Ginsburg, Tom, 'The Virtues of Evolution in an Age of Revolution: Norway's Enduring Constitution in Comparative Perspective', Nytt Norsk Tidskrift, No. 3 (2014), 225-237 - available in Fronter in English and Norwegian (12).
• José Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg, ’Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism’, British Journal of Political Science, 44(3) 82014), pp. 1-30 (30).
• Mark Tushnet "Constitution‐Making: An Introduction." http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/tlr91&div=61&g_sent=1&collection=journals    . 91 (2013), pp. 1983-2015 (32).
• Jon Elster: “Clearing and Strengthening the Channels of Constitution‐making” in Tom Ginsburg (ed) Comparative Constitutional Design. Cambridge University Press 2002, pp. 15‐30 - available in Fronter (15).
• John S. Bell, ‘Comparative Administrative Law’, in M. Reimann and r. Zimmermann, Oxford Hanbdbook of Comparative Law (OUP, 2006), 1261-1286 (26)
• Rose-Ackerman, Susan & Lindseth, Peter, Comparative Administrative Law (Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2010) (’Rose-Ackerman & Lindseth’), 63-77, 225-245, 389-425 (75).
• Daly and May “Comparative environmental constitutionalism” Jindal Global Law Review 2015 (22)
• Louis Kotze “The Conceptual contours of Environmental Constitutionalism” 21 Widener Law Review 187 2015 (15)
• Devereux, Michael P. and Vella, John, Are We Heading Towards a Corporate Tax System Fit for the 21st Century? (November 20, 2014). Fiscal Studies, Forthcoming; Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 88/2014. (26)

Total number of pages (main literature): 569 pages.

Recommended reading ( tilleggslitteratur)

• Marbury v. Madison 5 U.S. 137 (1803) (US Supreme Court)
• Read two foreign constitutions
• Certification of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (CCT 23/96) [1996] ZACC 26; 1996 (6 Sept 1996) (Constitutional Court of South Africa) – Read selected extracts.
• Miller & Dos Santos v Secretary of States for Exiting the European Union, Case No. CO/3809/2016 CO/3281/2016, High Court of Justice (‘Brexit Judgment’)
• Odinga v Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, [2013] eKLR, Supreme Court of Kenya – Read selected extracts
• BVerfGE 73, 339 2 BvR 197/83 Solange II-decision (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany)
• Case 92-312 DC, Conseil Constitutionnel of France. – Read selected extracts.
• Judgment T-760/08 July 31, 2008 (Second Review Chamber of the Colombian Constitutional Court).
• Life Imprisonment Case (1977), 45 BVerfGE 187 (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany). Available in Fronter.
• Anisminic Ltd v. Foreign Compensation Commission [1969]2 AC 147, United Kingdom. – Read selected extracts.
• Maccsand Pty Ltd and others v City of Cape Town and Others 2011, Constitutional Court of South Africa.
• Kelsey Cascade Rose Juliana et al v The United States of America et al 2016, US District Court for the District of Oregon.
• Opinion 2/13 of the European Court of Justice, 18 December 2014: On Accession of the EU to the European Convention of Human Rights. – Read selected extracts.

Supplementary reading: (støttelitteratur)

• Bermann, G.A. et al. ’Comparative Law: Problems and Prospects’, American University Law Review, 26 (2010-2011), 935. 

• David, René and John Brierley, Major Legal Systems in the World Today: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Law (Stevens, 1985). 

• De Cruz, Peter,  Comparative Law in a Changing World, 3rd edn (Routledge-Cavendish, 2007).
• Eriksen, Christoffer Conrad, The European Constitution, Welfare States and Democracy: The four freedoms vs national administrative discretion (Routledge, 2012).
• Ginsburg, Tom & Dixon, Rosalind, Comparative Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar, 2011). 

• Graver, Hans Petter: ‘Mission Impossible: Supranationality and National Legal Autonomy in the EEA Agreement’, 7 European Foreign Affairs Review, 2002 pp. 73-90
• Grendstad, G., W. R. Shaffer, & E. N. Waltenburg, ‘”The Super Legislators” Supreme Court Justices as the Guardians of the Constitution,’ Policymaking in Independent Judiciary: The Norwegian Supreme Court (ECPR Press, 2015).
• Harlow, Carol, “Global Administrative Law: The Quest for Principles and 
Values.” European Journal of International Law, 17(1) (2006), pp. 187-214. 

• Hillebrecht, C., Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals: The Problem of Compliance (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
• Ran Hirschl, ‘The Nordic counternarrative: Democracy, human development, and judicial review’, International Journal of Constitutional Law, 9(2) (2011), pp. 449-469.
• Jackson, Vicky, ’Constitutions as ”Living Trees”: Comparative Constitutional 
Law and Interpretative Metaphors’, Fordham Law Review, 75 (2006), pp. 921-960. 

• Jayawickrama, N., The Judicial Application of Human Rights Law: National, Regional and International Jurisprudence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
• Robert Kagan, ’American and European Ways of Law: Six Entrenched Differences’, in Volkmar Gessner and David Nelken, eds., European Ways of Law: Toward a European Sociology of Law (Hart Publishing, 2007), pp. 41-70.
• Mattias Kumm “Why Europeans will not embrace constitutional patriotism” Int J Constitutional Law 6(1) (2008), pp. 117‐136.
• Legrand, Pierre, ’European Legal Systems Are Not Converging’, International 
and Comparative Law Quarterly, 45 (1996), pp. 52-81. 

• Langford, Malcolm, Cesar Garavito-Rodriguez, and Julieta Rossi, Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance: Making it Stick (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• Legrand, Pierre, ’The Same and the Different’ in Legrand, Pierre and Munday, 
Roderick (eds.) Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (Cambridge University Press, 2003). 

• Reimann, Mathias and Zimmermann, Reinhard, The Oxford Handbook of
Comparative Law (Oxford University Press, 2008). 

• Max Rheinstein, ’Comparative Law - Its Functions, Methods and Usages”, Arkansas Law Review 22 (1968), 415.

• May, James & Erin Daly, Global Environmental Constitutionalism (CUP, 2014
• Ruffert, Matthias (ed.), The Transformation of Administrative Law in Europe / 
La mutation du droit administratif en Europe (European Law Publishers, 2007).
• Sacco, R. ‘Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Installment I of II)’, The American Journal of Comparative Law Vol. 39, No. 1 (Winter, 1991), pp. 1-34 (34)
• Slagstad, Rune, 'The Breakthrough of Judicial Review in the Norwegian System', in Eivind Smith (ed.), Constitutional Justice Under Old Constitutions (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1995), pp. 81-112.
• Smith, Eivind, Constitutional Justice under Old Constitutions (Kluwer, 1995). 

• Tushnet, Mark, ’The Possibilities of Comparative Constitutional Law’, The
Yale Law Journal, 108(6) (1999), pp. 1225-1309. 

• Van Hoecke and Warrington, ’Legal Cultures, Legal Paradigms and Legal Doctrine: Towards a New Model for Comparative Law’, International & 
Comparative Law Quarterly 47 (1998), 495.