Constitutional Courts in Comparison : : The US Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court / / ed. by Ralf Rogowski, Thomas Gawron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Baum, Lawrence,; Blankenburg, Erhard,; Gawron, Thomas,; Heun, Werner,; Johnson, Timothy R.,; Kagan, Robert A.,; Kneip, Sascha,; Kranenpohl, Uwe,; Lietzmann, Hans J.,; Massing, Otwin,; Rogowski, Ralf,; Sorenson, Maron W.,; Stüwe, Klaus,; Ward, Artemus,
• HerausgeberIn: Gawron, Thomas,; Rogowski, Ralf,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)

Constitutional litigation in general attracts two distinct types of conflict: disputes of a highly politicized or culturally controversial nature and requests from citizens claiming a violation of a fundamental constitutional right. The side-by-side comparison between the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court provides a novel socio-legal approach in studying constitutional litigation, focusing on conditions of mobilisation, decision-making and implementation. This updated and revised second edition includes a number of new contributions on the political status of the courts in their democratic political cultures.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Figures and Tables -- Introduction: Constitutional Litigation as Dispute Processing: Comparing the U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court -- Part I Access and Case Selection -- Chapter 1 Constitutional Litigation in the United States -- Chapter 2 Access to the German Federal Constitutional Court -- Chapter 3 Mobilization of the German Federal Constitutional Court -- Part II Decision Making -- Chapter 4 The U.S. Supreme Court’s Strategic Decision-Making Process -- Chapter 5 Decision Making at the German Federal Constitutional Court -- Chapter 6 Junior Varsity Judges? Law Clerks in the Decisional Process of the U.S. Supreme Court -- Chapter 7 Legal Assistants at the German Federal Constitutional Court: A “Black Box” of Research? -- Part III Implementation -- Chapter 8 The Implementation of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions -- Chapter 9 Implementation of German Federal Constitutional Court Decisions: Judicial Orders and the Federal Legislature -- Part IV Comparative Perspectives -- Chapter 10 The U.S. Supreme Court and the German Federal Constitutional Court: Selection, Nomination, and Election of Justices -- Chapter 11 The Impact of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the Consolidation and Quality of Democracy -- Chapter 12 Constitutional Courts in Changing Political Systems -- Index