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The International Association of Constitutional Law || l'Association Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel

Constitutional Interpretation

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Focus

Constitutions are broadly worded documents, leaving ample room for interpretation. To determine the meaning of a constitution is, therefore, an evident and unavoidable task in every constitutional polity, irrespective of the ways in which the legislature or the courts perform it. However, there are many possible methods of legal interpretation without any consensus on which way is the best or most effective. Thus, a number of theories have emerged on the preferred method of constitutional interpretation, raising many theoretical and practical issues. The great bulk of relevant academic literature itself proves the importance of this theme in the living constitutional law.

The IACL Research Group on Constitutional Interpretation provides an effective framework for new directions in and the promotion of international projects for studying this topic. The Group is a useful tool for maintaining the research network of scholars whose fields of interest are closely connected to constitutional interpretation.

The activities of the Group covers the organisation of conferences and seminars on the topic, the international research projects on constitutional interpretation and the jurisprudence of constitutional courts, the participation and organisation of separate workshops in IACL world congresses, as well as the establishment and maintenance of a research network between the scientists concerned, providing the exchange of relevant information and permanent connection.

The Institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences provides an institutional framework for organizing the activities of the Group.

Link to the research group's webpage: https://contint.tk.hu/en

Link to the research group's blog: https://contint.tk.hu/en/blog/

 

Members

  • ALBERT, Richard
  • William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, The University of Texas (United States)
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  • BALAGUER CALLEJÓN, Francisco
  • Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Granada (Spain)
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  • CHANG, Wen-Chen
  • Professor of Law, National Taiwan University
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  • CONTIADES, Xenophon
  • Professor of Law, University of Peloponnese (Greece)
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  • CORTESE, Fulvio
  • Professor of Administrative Law, University of Trento (Italy)
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  • DISANT, Mathieu
  • Professor of Law, University of Lyon (France)
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  • EJIMA, Akiko
  • Professor of Law, Meiji University (Japan)
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  • GAMPER, Anna
  • Professor of Law, University of Innsbruck (Austria)
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  • GARDASEVIC, Djordje
  • Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
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  • GÁRDOS-OROSZ Fruzsina
  • Director, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary)
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  • GRANAT, Miroslaw
  • Professor of Constitutional Law, Warsaw II University (Poland)
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  • GROPPI, Tania
  • Professor of Law, University of Siena (Italy)
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  • GYŐRFI Tamás
  • Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)
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  • HALMAI Gábor
  • Professor of Law, European University Institute (Italy)
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  • HOHENLOHE, Diana zu
  • Professor of Law, Sigmund Freud University (Austria) and University of Potsdam (Germany)
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  • JAKAB, András
  • Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, University of Salzburg (Austria)
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  • LACHMAYER, Konrad
  • Professor of Law, Sigmund Freud University (Austria)
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  • LOUGHLIN, Martin
  • Professor of Public Law, London School of Economics & Political Science (United Kingdom)
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  • McEldowny, John
  • Professor of Law, University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
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  • MEHDE, Veith
  • Professor of Public Law, University of Leibniz (Germany)
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  • PAUZAITÉ-KULVINSKIENÉ, Jurgita
  • Director, Law Institute of Lithuania (Lithuania)
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  • RIBERI, Pablo
  • Professor of Law, University of Cordóba (Argentina)
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  • ROZNAI, Yaniv
  • Senior Lecturer, Harry Radzyner Law School (Israel)
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  • SAUNDERS, Cheryl
  • Laureate Professor Emeritus, Melbourne Law School (Australia)
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  • SCHEPPELE, Kim Lane
  • Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University (United States)
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  • SCHWEBER, Howard
  • Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (United States)
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  • SILJANOVSKA DAVKOVA, Gordana
  • Professor of Law, University of Ss Cyril and Methodius (North Macedonia)
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  • SPIGNO, Irene
  • Director, Centre of Comparative Constitutional Studies of the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights, Autonomous University of Coahuila (Mexico)
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  • SZENTE Zoltán
  • Professor of Law, National University of Public Service and Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
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  • SZILÁGYI Emese (Secretary of the Group)
  • Junior Research Fellow, Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
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  • TUSHNET, Mark
  • Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (United States)
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  • VLACHOGIANNIS, Apostolos
  • Teaching Assistant Hellenic Open University (Greece)
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Forthcoming Events

Call for Papers

Constitutional Interpretation in European Populist Regimes, Budapest 5-6 December 2019 (supported by EU H2020 project DEMOS, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies).

  Download the full conference programme

Publications

Szente Zoltán, Gárdos-Orosz Fruzsina (eds.), New Challenges to Constitutional Adjudication in Europe: A Comparative Perspective, London‒New York: Routledge, 2018. 

Conveners

  • Zoltán Szente
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  • Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
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  • Emese Szilágyi
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Postal address

Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Institute for Legal Studies,
1453 Budapest, Pf. 25. 
Budapest, HUNGARY