Federalism and the Generality Problem in Constitutional Interpretation

Constitutional Interpretation and the Problem of History

International Environmental Agreements, Fiscal Federalism, and Constitutional Design1

In this paper, we analyse how the prospect of international negotiations over transboundary pollution shapes intra-country transfer schemes when the governments of the countries’polluting regions are in charge of environmental policy and negotiations. Federal governments can implement compensation payments between domestic regions and matching grants prior to the international negotiations betw...

Theories of Constitutional Interpretation

Meaning and Belief in Constitutional Interpretation

Contempoary Perspectives on Constitutional Interpretation *683 AUTONOMY'S MAGIC WAND: ABORTION AND CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION

Constitutional law changes, even though the Constitution remains the same. American abortion law aptly illustrates this point. Although the text of the Fourteenth Amendment has remained constant since the United States Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade [FN1] in 1973, the Court has altered its position on the constitutionality of restrictive abortion statutes. According to Roe, the Due Process C...