Transnational Evaluation of Constitutions

This book provides a hypothetical classification of constitutions through international law and human rights values used in any constitution, which draws connections between the inclusive standards of international law and human rights contained in the constitutions. Consequently, an evaluation method will be available for users to rank any constitution potentiality of analysis for grounds of any commitment and responsibility of the states concerning international law and human rights. "This important study uses novel quantitative and qualitative methods to explore the relationship between constitutional and international law. It is a significant contribution to the literature, and pushes us further toward rigorous analysis of transnational legal regimes."
Tom Ginsburg Professor of Political Science, Chicago Law School.

Elaborates a new method of classification and indexation of constitutions Illustrates a transnational interconnectedness of constitutions through human rights, and constitutional approaches to international law Presents an evaluation method for users to rank any constitution potentiality of analysis for grounds of any commitment and responsibility of the states concerning international law and human rights

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Ali Shirvani is currently an associate professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies of Xi'an International Studies University and a non-resident fellow at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), P. R. China. Ali studied law at the University of Isfahan and graduated in international law from Xiamen University. He was a research fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Northwest University, Xi'an. His research areas are the conjunctions of international law and constitutional law, where he focused on common standards and comparative norms of constitutions from a transnational perspective. He suggests using legal informatics of constitutional texts to automate, compute, and mechanize legal analysis in his works.He works on classification methods and, consequently, evaluating constitutions through the prism of international law and human rights values. He is also the founder and editor of the blog constitutional law in Persian producing updated pieces of constitutional latest constitutional matters worldwide as a feed for researchers of the Persian language field. He has written several essays in related areas and translated articles published as a book, Private Law beyond Nation State (Studies on the globalization and Europeanization of private law) with Alireza Arvahi, a selection of essays Jürgen Basedow.

Inhalt
Introduction: International Law, National Revolutions and Constitutional Updates.- Backgrounds.- Classification and Visualization of a Multi-dimensional Illustration.- Classification and Indexation of Constitutions.- A Sample Evaluation and Future of the Research.