Contents

The Forms of Unamendability.............................................................................. 1

Richard Albeit and Bertil Emrah Oder

Part I The Legitimacy and Limits of Unamendability

Necrocracy or Democracy? Assessing Objections to Constitutional

Unamendability....................................................................................................

Yaniv Roznai

A Constitution for Eternity: An Economic Theory of Explicit Unamendability 63

Konstantinos Pilpilidis

Conventions of Unamendability: Covert Constitutional

Unamendability in (Two) Politically Enforced Constitutions............................. 89

Gert Jan Geertjes and Jerfi Uzman

Credible Commitment or Paternalism? The Case

of Unamendability............................................................................................. 123

Stephan Michel and Ignacio N. Cofone

Part II Unamendability Around the World

Constitutional Falsehoods: The Fourth Judges Case and the Basic Structure Doctrine in India............................................................................................................... 149

Chintan Chandrachud

Unamendability in Israel: A Critical Perspective.............................................. 169

Mazen Masri

Eternal Provisions in the Constitution of Bangladesh:

A Constitution Once and for All?..................................................................... 195

Ridwanul Hoque

Unamendability as a Judicial Discovery? Inductive Learning

Lessons from Hungary....................................................................................... 231

Fruzsina Gardos-Orosz

Amending the Unamendable: The Case of Article 20 of the German

Basic Law........................................................................................................... 259

Serkan Koyba^i

Debating Unamendability: Deadlock in Turkey’s Constitution-Making

Process................................................................................................................. 281

Oya Yegen

The Unamendability of Amendable Clauses: The Case of the Turkish

Constitution........................................................................................................ 313

Tank Olcay

Brazil in the Context of the Debate Over Unamendability in Latin

America............................................................................................................... 345

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo

Unamendable Constitutional Provisions and the European Common Constitutional Heritage: A Comparison Among Three Waves of Constitutionalism.............. 365

Valentina Rita Scotti