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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Ran Hirschl, ‘Comparative Matters: Response to Interlocutors’ (2016) 96(4) Boston University Law Review 1393–424: 1398.2 Pierre Legrand, ‘The Same and the Different’ in Pierre Legrand and Roderick Munday (eds), Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions (Cambridge University Press, 2003) 240–311: 276–7.3 See, for example, Wen-Chen Chang and others, Constitutionalism in Asia: Cases and Materials (Hart Publishing, 2014); Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg (eds), Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia (Edward Elgar, 2014); Albert HY Chen (ed), Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2014).4 See, for example, Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner and Maxim Bönnemann (eds), The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2020). Some works focus on specific regions. On Latin America see Conrado Hübner Mendes, Roberto Gargarella and Sebastián Guidi (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 2022). On the Caribbean see Richard Albert, Derek O’Brien and Se-shauna Wheatle (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions (Oxford University Press, 2020). On Africa see the Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law published by Oxford University Press.5 In 1962, Klaus Epstein observed that ‘the study of comparative constitutional history is still in its infancy’. See Klaus Epstein, ‘A New German Constitutional History’ (1962) 34(3) The Journal of Modern History 307–11: 308. More than 60 years later, his observation remains topical.6 See the articles in ‘Symposium: Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives’ (2017) 2017(2) University of Illinois Law Review 475 ff; Francesco Biagi, Justin O Frosini and Jason Mazzone (eds), Comparative Constitutional History, vol 1, Principles, Developments, Challenges (Brill, 2020); Francesco Biagi, Justin O Frosini and Jason Mazzone (eds), Comparative Constitutional History, vol 2, Uses of History in Constitutional Adjudication (Brill, 2023); William Partlett, ‘Historiography and Comparative Constitutional Scholarship’ (2023) Comparative Constitutional Studies (advance access) .7 See Claude Klein and András Sajó, ‘Constitution-Making as a Process’ in Michel Rosenfeld and András Sajó (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2012); David Landau and Hanna Lerner (eds), Comparative Constitution Making (Edward Elgar, 2019).8 On constitutional founding see also Richard Albert, Menaka Guruswamy and Nishchal Basnyat (eds), Founding Moments in Constitutionalism (Hart Publishing, 2019).9 Antonino Spadaro, ‘La transizione costituzionale. Ambiguità e polivalenza di un’importante nozione di teoria generale’ in Antonino Spadaro (ed), Le “trasformazioni” costituzionali nell’età della transizione (Giappichelli, 2000) 17–117: 64 (translation by the author of this review).10 Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe C Schmitter, ‘Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies’ in Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C Schmitter and Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986) 3–5: 5.11 See Francesco Biagi, European Constitutional Courts and Transitions to Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2020) 33 ff.12 See Claudio Pavone, Alle origini della Repubblica. Scritti su fascismo, antifascismo e continuità dello Stato (Bollati Boringhieri, 1995); Mario Fiorillo, La nascita della Repubblica italiana e i problemi giuridici della continuità (Giuffrè, 2000).13 On Asia see Tania Groppi, ‘Costituzioni senza costituzionalismo? La codificazione dei diritti in Asia agli inizi del XXI secolo’ (2006) 2 Politica del diritto 187 ff. On Africa see HWO Okoth-Ogendo, ‘Constitutions without Constitutionalism: Reflections on an African Political Paradox’ in Douglas Greenberg and others (eds), Constitutionalism and Democracy: Transitions in the Contemporary World (Oxford University Press, 1993) 65 ff. On Latin America see Atilio A Borón, ‘Latin America: Constitutionalism and the Political Traditions of Liberalism and Socialism’ in Greenberg and others, ibid, 339 ff.14 Nino Olivetti Rason, ‘Alcune considerazioni conclusive’ in Silvio Gambino (ed), Costituzionalismo europeo e transizioni democratiche (Giuffrè, 2003) 485–96: 492 (translation by the author of this review).