Constitutional Dialogue
Rights, Democracy, Institutions
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
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The metaphor of dialogue has been put to different descriptive and evaluative uses by constitutional and political theorists studying interactions between institutions concerning rights. It has also featured prominently in the opinions of courts and the rhetoric and deliberations of legislators. This volume brings together many of the world’s leading constitutional and political theorists to debate the nature and merits of constitutional dialogues between the judicial, legislative, and executive branches. Constitutional Dialogue explores dialogue’s democratic significance, examines its relevance to the functioning and design of constitutional institutions, and covers constitutional dialogues from an international and transnational perspective.
Contributors include Geoffrey Sigalet, Grégoire Webber, Rosalind Dixon, Alison Young, Jacob T. Levy, Jeff King, Dwight Newman, Janet L. Hiebert, James B. Kelly, Kent Roach, Rivka Weill, John Finnis, Stephen Macedo, Dennis Baker, Frederick Schauer and Richard Ekins.
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Authors
Geoffrey Sigalet is an assistant professor of Political Science at UBC Okanagan. He completed his PhD in political theory and public law at Princeton University, where his dissertation developed a neo-republican political theory of dialogical judicial review and constitutional interpretation. His research investigates how constitutional principles such as the separation of powers, proportionality in rights adjudication, judicial independence, and parliamentary supremacy relate to democratic politics. His focus is on principles that matter in the Westminster and the U.S. constitutions. Other research projects concern topics such as the principle of proportionality in Canadian and American rights adjudication, the historical origins and purposes of sections 1 and 33 of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the idea of republican freedom as it relates to bills of rights.
Grégoire Webber holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen’s University and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Rosalind Dixon is a professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and Co-President of the International Society of Public Law.
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