The impact of internationalisation on national constitutions

Abstract

Over at least the past thirty years there has been a degree of convergence of the national constitutional systems of the world, for reasons that are attributable to a variety of transnational forces, which I characterise collectively as internationalisation. The purpose of this chapter is to examine more closely how internationalisation affects constitutional arrangements, the extent of its impact and the implications of this development for comparative constitutional law. It is convenient here to provide a further explanation of the concept of internationalisation as I use it. On any view, internationalisation describes the impact of international and supra-national norms, institutions and ..