Contents: 1. Introduction / Erin F. Delaney and Rosalind Dixon
Part I The origins and functions of judicial review
2. The real case for judicial review / Alon Harel and Adam Shinar
3. Constitutions as political insurance: variants & limits / Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg
4. Comparative constitutional law as a window on democratic institutions / Samuel Issacharoff
5. The origins and growth of judicial enforcement / Steven Gow Calabresi
Part II
The political and institutional contexts for judicial review
6. Interpreting constitutions in divided societies / Hanna Lerner
7. Judicial review in the context of constitutional Islam / Salma Waheedi and Kristen Stilt
8. New judicial roles in governance / Robert A. Kagan, Diana Kapiszewski and Gordon Silverstein
9. Competition or collaboration: constitutional review by multiple final courts / Wen-Chen Chang and Yi-Li Lee
Part III The stability and effectiveness of judicial review
10. Judicial review as a self-stabilizing constitutional mechanism / Tonja Jacobi, Sonia Mittal and Barry R. Weingast
11. Losing faith in law''s autonomy: a comparative analysis / Theunis Roux
12. Courts and support structures: beyond the classic narrative / David Landau
13. National perspectives on international constitutional review: diverging optics / Karen J. Alter
14. Efficacious judging on apex courts / Lee Epstein and Jack Knight
15. Limiting judicial discretion / Mila Versteeg and Emily Zackin
Part IV Operationalizing judicial review: typologies, doctrines and methodological challenges
16. Beyond Europe and the United States: the wide world of judicial review / Virgílio Afonso da Silva
17. Judicial review and public reason / Wojciech Sadurski
18. Pockets of proportionality: choice and necessity, doctrine and principle / Vicki C. Jackson
19. Comparative approaches to constitutional history / Jamal Greene and Yvonne Tew
20. Judicial review and the politics of comparative citations: theory, evidence & methodological challenges / Ran Hirschl
Index.
