Cambridge University Press Local Meanings of Proportionality (Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law)

Product Description This book offers one of the rare empirical studies on the different meanings of proportionality as part of a global constitutional discourse. It develops and applies a theoretically informed comparative methodology for the study of differences in the use of legal transfers. Beyond the transplant versus culture controversy, it enriches our understanding of the relationship between law and its social context. Beyond the common law and civil law cleavage, it provides an in-depth comparison of French, English and Greek judicial review, rendering some core features of these systems accessible to non-initiated readers. The last part of the book provides insights as to the different visions of Europe underlying different phases of European integration and thus enriches our understanding of the process of integration through law. Book Description A strong counter-argument to the universalising discourse on proportionality and global constitutionalism. About the Author Afroditi Ioanna Marketou is a postdoctoral researcher in Law at the University of Luxembourg. She studied Law at the University of Athens, the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master's), and the European University Institute (PhD). She has taught Public Law in several French universities and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed academic journals in English and in French. Her research interests lie in public and European law and include the interplay between domestic and European legal systems, the reception of legal transfers, the local meanings of Europeanisation and globalisation, as well as the study of legal cultures from an anthropological perspective.