Comparative Constitutional Law : Festschrift in Honour of Professor P.K. Tripathi /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Content:
Part I-Constitutions, constitutional philosophy and judicial review.
1. Political judges and the rule of law / Ronald Dworkin.
2. Aspects of judicial review of the constitutionality of executive action in the Federal Republicd of Germany : a basic outline / Helmut Steinberger.
3. Constitutional review of laws by constitutional courts and democracy : problem of legitimacy / Pavle Nikolic.
4. The influence of western liberal ideas on Gandhi's constitutional philosophy / Dieter Conrad.
5. The role of the courts in the preservation of federalism : some remarks on the US and the German experience / Rudolf Dolzer.
6. Constitutional federalism in Latin America / Jose MA. Serna de la Garza.

Part II-Constitutionalism in Asia.
7. "One country, two systems" : the future of Hong Kong / Jill Cottrell.
8. The politics of the constitution : another look at the Ningkan litigation / Yash Ghai.
9. Constitutional interpretation and state formative practices in Pakistan : a preliminary exploration / Upendra Baxi.
10. The future of central-local relationship under the people's congress system in China / Lin Feng.
11. Legal system with special reference to constitutional law in Korea / Kwon Young Ho.
12. A bill of rights without a "rights culture"? : fundamental liberties and constitutional adjudication in Singapore / Li-Ann Thio.
13. Constitution making and constitutional change in Japan / Koji Tonami.

Part III-Civil and political rights.
14. Free speech justifications / Kent Greenawalt.
15. Freedom of expression and academic freedom : background and formation of legal principles / Christian Starck.
16. Religious speech under Indian law / John H. Mansfield.
17. Free speech in Germany / Torsten Stein.
18. State lawlessness and the constitution : a study of lock-up deaths / Mohammad Ghouse.
19. United Nations treaty bodies and special procedures, and the strengthening of democracy / Roman Wieruszewski.
20. The right to personal liberty in India : "Gopalan" revisited with a difference / B. Errabbi.

Part IV-Economic and social rights.
21. The notion of development as a right : reflections from an international perspective / Peter Macalister-Smith.
22. Some crucial problems of tension between equality and compensatory discrimination / Parmanand Singh.
23. The concept of human dignity and the constitution of India / Govind Mishra.
24. The directive principles of state policy / P. Parmeswara Rao.
25. Human rights in the constitutions of the Western world : some interpretational trends / Ulrich Karpen.
26. Human rights and their enforcement at the international level / E.S. Venktaramiah.
27. Directive principles of the Indian constitutions and nonviolence : a marcroscopic view / B. Jagat Narain.

Part V-Constitutional foundations of administrative law.
28. Basic principles of German administrative law / Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann.
29. Government and administration as a constitutional problem in Sweden / Torsten Bjerkén.

Part VI-Constitution and the civil servants.
30. Preferential treatment and equal access to public office : some remarks from the perspective of the basic law of the federal republic of Germany / Helmut Goerlich.
31. Governmental prerogative in relation to civil servants / Harish Chander.
32. Professor P.K. Tripathi's contribution to constitutional law : some glimpses / Mahendra P. Singh.