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In Constitutional Identity, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience-from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation's past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own destruction, and manifests itself in various ways, as Jacobsohn shows in examples as far flung as India, Ireland, Israel, and the United States.

Jacobsohn argues that the presence of disharmony-both the tensions within a constitutional order and those that exist between a constitutional document and the society it seeks to regulate-is critical to understanding the theory and dynamics of constitutional identity. He explores constitutional identity's great practical importance for some of constitutionalism's most vexing questions: Is an unconstitutional constitution possible? Is the judicial practice of using foreign sources to resolve domestic legal disputes a threat to vital constitutional interests? How are the competing demands of transformation and preservation in constitutional evolution to be balanced?



An important, thought-provoking work filled with brilliant, original ideas alongside fascinating examples. Constitutional Identity comes from one of America's leading scholars of comparative constitutionalism with an unmatched wealth of pertinent knowledge and intellectual integrity, glowingly manifested here. -- Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto, author of Constitutional Theocracy Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn offers rich insights on the problems of constitutional identity; this is a seminal work in comparative constitutionalism and constitutional theory. The mere attempt to think about these problems is a worthwhile endeavor. -- Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law I won't waste my time by providing a list of adjectives. Please invoke all that you can think of that praise this as a superb work. I'm both surprised and delighted that someone has the learning and imagination to write such a sweeping book. I'm doubly delighted that it's Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn who has done so. -- Walter F. Murphy, Princeton University

About the Author
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn is H. Malcolm MacDonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law in the Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin.

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The beauty of Constitutional Identity derives both from the lucidity of Jacobsohn's arguments and the cogency of his examples. Drawing primarily from cases arising before high courts in India, Ireland, Israel, South Africa, Turkey, and the U.S., it draws upon written opinions, interviews with judges, and a staggering range of secondary sources (perhaps a third of the book is footnotes). If the problems producing constitutional disharmonies are diverse, the legal and philosophical struggle to discover the core identities of the systems being studied and reconcile 'the actual and the ideal provided for in a constitutional document' is remarkably universal. -- E. V. Schneier * Choice *
An important, thought-provoking work filled with brilliant, original ideas alongside fascinating examples. Constitutional Identity comes from one of America's leading scholars of comparative constitutionalism with an unmatched wealth of pertinent knowledge and intellectual integrity, glowingly manifested here. -- Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto, author of Constitutional Theocracy
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn offers rich insights on the problems of constitutional identity; this is a seminal work in comparative constitutionalism and constitutional theory. The mere attempt to think about these problems is a worthwhile endeavor. -- Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law
I won't waste my time by providing a list of adjectives. Please invoke all that you can think of that praise this as a superb work. I'm both surprised and delighted that someone has the learning and imagination to write such a sweeping book. I'm doubly delighted that it's Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn who has done so. -- Walter F. Murphy, Princeton University


Awards
Nominated for C. Herman Pritchett Award 2011.



Book Information
ISBN 9780674047662
Author Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
Format Hardback
Page Count 388
Imprint Harvard University Press
Publisher Harvard University Press

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