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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law [MPECCoL]

Methodologies of Comparative Constitutional Law: Functional Approach

Francesca Bignami

From: Oxford Constitutions (http://oxcon.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 14 November 2024

Subject(s):
Comparative constitutional law

General Editors: Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, Rüdiger Wolfrum
Managing Editor: Martina Mantovani

1 The contemporary field of comparative constitutional law (‘CCL’) dates to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the diffusion of democratic constitutions across the globe. According to one influential map of the field, there are five distinct methodologies—classificatory, contextual, historical, universalist, and functional (Jackson (2012); methodologies of comparative constitutional law: classificatory approach; methodologies of comparative constitutional law: contextual approach; methodologies of comparative constitutional law: historical approach; methodologies of...
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