Section Description Provided by Instructor The understanding of
one's own constitutional system can be enriched by the study of
the different ways other systems have treated shared problems.
The relevance of comparative law for lawyers is enhanced by
trends of globalization of the social and political spheres and
by the growth of borrowing and transplanting regime structures
and legal doctrines across systems. The course comprises twelve
units, organized in six modules. An introduction to comparative
law is followed by a comparative analysis of constitutionalism
and constitutions. We then consider different structures of
allocation of government powers (separation of powers, with a
special emphasis on the role of the executive); models of
judicial review available across constitutions, followed by an
analysis of constitutional protection of human rights; we then
assess comparatively several key emerging concepts in
comparative public law, namely "legal transplants" and
"constitutional dialogue". We will use s