Constitutional Systems of the World: Problems of Perspective in Comparative Constitutionalism

This review examines four books from the series ‘Constitutional Systems of the World’: these books set out the experience of the US, Germany, Russia and South Africa. As introductions to each of these countries’ experience with constitutions, each text is perfectly acceptable; the problems start when we begin to compare the books to each other. Then questions arise about the approaches taken by each individual author, and the overall objective behind the series.