Proportionality in Comparative Law

: Investigations of proportionality’s role in contemporary public law are complicated by the way the topic straddles so many binaries familiar within the discipline of comparative law. These include those of substance and form, discourse and practice, ‘function’ and ‘culture’, and – perhaps most importantly – similarity and difference. Comparative legal scholarship, this entry argues, will have to grapple with the contradictory tasks of simultaneously investigating and questioning proportionality’s (real or purported) hegemony. To this end, the paper presents brief overviews of work concerned with the (1) identification, (2) explanation, (3) interpretation, and (4) critique, of proportionality’s global diffusion and ‘success’.

[1]  Richard Stacey.  The Magnetism of Moral Reasoning and the Principle of Proportionality in Comparative Constitutional Adjudication , 2019, The American Journal of Comparative Law.

[2]  D. Kenny.  Proportionality and the Inevitability of the Local: A Comparative Localist Analysis of Canada and Ireland , 2018, The American Journal of Comparative Law.

[3]  Iddo Porat.  Proportionality and Judicial Activism: Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa , 2018, International Journal of Constitutional Law.

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[13]  A. Barak.  Proportionality: Constitutional Rights and their Limitations , 2012 .

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[15]  Stavros Tsakyrakis.  Proportionality: An assault on human rights?: A rejoinder to Madhav Khosla , 2009 .

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