Comparative constitution law / edited by Mahendra P. Singh

THIS FESTSCHRIFT in honour of an eminent con stitutionalist and legal pedagogue of India, Professor P.K. Tripathi, consists of learned essays from renowned constitutionalists and jurists from all over the world. The essays cover a wide variety of subjects some of which, such as judicial review of legislative and executive actions, the principles that should guide the judges in the exercise of judicial review, legitimacy of judicial review vis-a-vis democracy, human rights including civil and political as well as economic and social rights, are of universal nature while oth ers deal with these and other subjects such as directive principles versus fundamental rights, compensatory discrimination, constitutional protection of civil servants, constitutional foundations of administrative law, relationship between different organs of the state, institu tions safeguarding the rights and liberties of the individual, role of judiciary in the preserva tion of federalism, more specifically in the con text of different countries, namely, Federal Republic of Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, United States, and Yugoslavia. The essays deal with all these issues very thoroughly and profoundly.

Together the essays constitute an ideal work on comparative constitutional law. Not only do they deal with more than thirty important con stitutional issues in at least ten different coun tries, they also cover as many as six different systems of law, namely, civil law, common law, Islamic law, law of the Far East, Scandinavian law and socialist law.