The migration of constitutional ideas / edited by Sujit Choudhry.

'Papers for this volume were initially presented at an international conference held at the University of Toronto in October 2004'--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Migration as a new metaphor in comparative constitutional law / Sujit Choudhry -- On the blurred methodological matrix of comparative constitutional law / Ran Hirschl -- Some reflections on method in comparative constitutional law / Mark Tushnet -- The postwar paradigm and American exceptionalism / Lorraine E. Weinrib -- Questioning the migration of constitutional ideas : rights, constitutionalism and the limits of convergence / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- Spreading liberal constitutionalism : an inquiry into the fate of free speech rights in new democracies / Michel Rosenfeld and Andras Sajo -- Underlying principles and the migration of reasoning templates : a trans-systemic reading of the Quebec Secession Reference / Jean-Francois Gaudreault-Desbiens -- Migrating marriages and comparative constitutionalism / Brenda Cossman -- Inimical to constitutional values : complex migrations of constitutional rights / Mayo Moran -- Democratic constitutionalism encounters international law : terms of engagement / Mattias Kumm -- Constitution or model treaty? Struggling over the interpretive authority of NAFTA / David Schneiderman -- The migration of constitutional ideas and the migration of the constitutional idea : the case of the EU / Neil Walker -- The migration of anti-constitutional ideas : the post-9/11 globalization of public law and the international state of emergency / Kim Lane Scheppele -- The post-9/11 migration of Britain's Terrorism Act 2000 / Kent Roach --'Control systems' and the migration of anomalies / Oren Gross.