Writing Constitutions

Wolfgang Babeck is an honorary adjunct professor at Bond University, Australia and a commercial lawyer admitted in New South Wales, England and Wales and Germany. Over the past 25 years Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Babeck  has been involved in legal and constitutional reforms in Lithuania, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam. Both in 2010 and in 2017 he chaired a constitutional conference for the country of Georgia. He lives in Sydney and occasionally in Berlin.

Albrecht Weber is a renowned scholar in the field of comparative constitutional law, European law and Fundamental Rights. Em. Prof. Dr. Albrecht Weber has taught in Osnabrück, Germany; France; Spain; Italy and Canada. He has published widely in the area, e.g. Europäische Verfassungsvergleichung (2010); European Constitutions Compared (2019); Fundamental Rights in Europe and North America (ed. 2000-2007); Menschenrechte. Texte und Fallpraxis (2004). He lives in Osnabrück.

Writing Constitutions intends to serve as a practical manual for those writing constitutions or interested in their design. It is the first systematic and universal approach to coherently capture concepts and contents of a modern constitution. Volume II is a user-friendly guide covering the current best practice in human rights and contains a draft catalogue of human rights. It empowers judges, lawyers, civil rights activists, legislators, and academics to draft and interpret over 70 Human Rights and strengthen democracies.

 Writing Constitutions comes in three volumes:

-        Volume I:   Institutions

-        Volume II:  Fundamental Rights

-        Volume III: Constitutional Principles