To Örebro University

Constitutional reasoning has been a flourishing field of research in comparative constitutional law in the past decade. This essay reviews two books that have made a significant contribution to the field. The success of these books is also shown by the fact that both were reprinted in paperback last year. The first book, as the author András Jakab declares, “provides a theory for constitutional lawyers about fundamental questions of European constitutional law” (at 1). At the same time, it serves as a conceptual foundation for the second book, which is an edited collection on comparative constitutional reasoning, and the final product of a five-year research project, involving twenty-five scholars from four continents who authored the various contributions, each examining one court’s style of constitutional reasoning. András Jakab is among the leaders of this research project (together with Arthur Dyevre and Giulio Itzcovich) and the editors of the second book. The essay will present the two books in this order.