Reseña de Constitutional Revolution (por Gary Jreffrey Jacobsohn y Yaniv Roznai

Abstract

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.