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This FESTSCHRIFT written in honour of an eminent constitutionalist and legal pedagogue of India, Professor P.K. Tripathi, consists of learned essays from renowned constitutionalists and jurists from all over the world. This 2nd Edition of the collection has been thoroughly revised, updated and substantially enlarged while retaining its original title and scheme. The essays cover a wide variety of subjects some of which, such as judicial review of legislative and executive actions, the principles that should guide the judges in the exercise of judicial review, legitimacy of judicial review vis-a-vis democracy, human rights including civil and political as well as economic and social rights, are of universal nature while others deal with these and other subjects such as directive principles versus fundamental rights, compensatory discrimination, constitutional protection of civil servants, constitutional foundations of administrative law, relationship between different organs of the state, institutional safeguarding the rights and liberties of the individual, role of judiciary in the preservation of federalism, more specifically in the context of different countries, namely, Federal Republic of Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, United States and Yugoslavia. The essays deal with all these issues very thoroughly and profoundly. Together the essays constitute an ideal work on comparative constitutional law. Not only do they deal with more than thirty important constitutional issues in at least ten different countries, they also cover as many as six different systems of law, namely, civil law, common law, Islamic law, law of the Far East, Scadinavian law and socialist law.
