Foreword / Pius Langa
Intorduction / Penelope E. Andrews, Susan Bazilli
Internationalism and transnational constitutionalism: comparative perspectives
Constitutional change, transnational constitutionalism, and a connection between international and constitutional law / Dwight Newman
Exporting prophylactic rules / Michael Plaxton
Balancing competing individual constitutional rights: an impossible task? / Taunya Banks
Cutting and sewing: goals and means in the constitutionalist project in Africa / Martin Chanock
Constitutionalism, separation of powers and the judiciary
Judicial review: can the goal of minority protection justify the constitutionalisation of economic rights? / Brian Flanagan
The independence of the judiciary in South Africa and Australia: comparative lessons / Denise Meyerson
The court as a forum of justification / Gregoire C.N. Webber
Achieving sexual freedom through constitutional structures: the problem of judicial review / Ruthann Robson
Deconstructing deference: a comparative analysis of judicial approaches to health care in South Africa and Canada / Kirsty McLean
Constitutionalism, citizenship and identity
Intimate violence and the right to gender equality / Valorie Vojdik
Islam and gender equality / Qudsia Mirza
Constitutional protection of citizenship in a comparative perspective / Janet Calvo
A global family? culture, sexuality and family regulation / Craig Lind
The UK: the incorporation of human rights and new labour - success or failure? / Wendy Pettifer
Constitutionalism and economic justice
On constitutionalizing environmental rights / Rebecca Bratspies
Reading between the lines: judicial protection for socio-economic rights under the South African and United States constitutions / Susan Herman
Implementing the social and economic promise of the constitution: the role of South African legal education / Peggy Maisel
The limitations of rights discourse
International law and the shrinking space for domestic politics in developing countries / Patrick Kelly
War powers under the South African constitution / Stephen Ellmann
The UK response to terrorism: human rights and a wider perspective / Chris Gale
American torturers and their known vicious propensities / Paul Brietzke
List of contributors.