Brian Tierney has established himself over the course of forty-five years of writing and teaching as one of the world's leading authorities on the history of medieval canon law and political thought. In a series of foundational works, he has offered important new interpretations of the origins of Western constitutionalism, tracing many concepts believed to be modem or early modem innovations to...

This article examines the relationship between populism and political constitutionalism. It claims that while constitutionalism is at odds with, better than, wide range of experiences labelled under term ‘populism’, constitutionalists would do well to distance themselves from claim constitution “all way down”. First, argues normative ambiguity ‘populism’ makes it ill-fated for purposes constitu...

This paper tries to analyze the main differences between common law and continental legal systems with regard to administrative law taking into account some aspects of basic constitutional law (The UK does not have a written Constitution). Although both legal systems are committed to the constitutionalism of the modernity, their diversities are much more fundamental, than one would imagine from...

Abstract This article elaborates on the justification and legitimacy of judicial review in continental constitutionalism. After Second World War, constitutionalism shifted from a Kelsenian conception constitutional courts to strong model whose requires maintaining distance both U.S. built around checks balances embodied by New Commonwealth I suggest that should not depend degree which it resist...

Abstract Digital constitutionalism is a strand of scholarship that focuses on the relationship between constitutional law and socio-legal challenges posed by digital revolution. However, such often builds uncritically tenets liberal, state-centred theory, giving rise to contradictions analytical starting points normative aspirations. Against this background, with an approach inspired societal c...

on the verge of the constitutionalist revolution in iran, the three social forces existing in the socio-political arena were competing with each other and at the same time, struggling with the monarchy to increase their share of power: independent intellectuals, traditional followers of religion, and merchants. this rivalry set the scene for a discursive battle in which, each social force was t...