Constitutional Revolutions is a joint work by Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai,
two leading comparative constitutional theorists who have combined their respective
expertise on constitutional identity and constitutional change, to write a complex
and yet enjoyable monograph.
The main contribution of the book is the elaboration and subsequent application
of the concept of constitutional revolution to four case studies.
That constitutions change through the political and the judicial process is well
known. Whether they do so without immediately visible ruptures or alterations in
the constitutional order is another matter. The book then argues that our available
conceptual tools are insufficient to account for processes of substantive changes
that lead to new constitutions or constitutional paradigms, changes that are not
brought about in direct violation of the legal system, that do not take place in one
specific moment in time, and which may be even produced through the correct
usage of legal mechanisms. Such cases are not systemically studied in the relevant
literature. Constitutional Revolution fills this gap.
