Book Review of Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia, Mark Tushnet (ed.) and Madhav Khosla (ed.), (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), x +403 pp., hardback, £82.00, paperback, £26.99, ISBN 978-1-107-06895-7
(2018 Issue 2) Public Law, pp. 367-73
7 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2019
Date Written: February 07, 2018
Abstract
The volume under review analyses the constitutional experiences of five South Asian nations: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This review seeks to summarise the contents of the book while engaging critically with the claims asserted by the editors and individual authors. In doing so, I express sceptimism whether the concept of 'unstable constitutionalism' is the best way to understand the constitutional experience of South Asian nations. On the whole, however, I consider the volume to be an important addition to the small body of work on South Asian constitutionalism.
Keywords: Constitutionalism in South Asia, Constitutioanlism in Asia, Law in Asia, Law in South Asia
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