Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis

Xenophon Contiades is Professor of Public Law, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Peloponnese and Director of the Centre for European Constitutional Law-Themistocles and Dimitris Tsatsos Foundation, Athens, Greece.

Introduction The Global Financial Crisis and the Constitution; Part I Constitutional Reactions in Comparative Perspective; Chapter 1 How Constitutions Reacted to the Financial Crisis; Part II First Path: Adjustment; Chapter 2 The Constitution and the Financial Crisis in Ireland, David Gwynn Morgan; Chapter 3 The Constitutional Consequences of the Financial Crisis in Italy, Tania Groppi, Irene Spigno, Nicola Vizioli; Chapter 4 Financial Crisis and the Constitution in Latvia, Ringolds Balodis, Janis Pleps; Chapter 5 The Spanish Constitution in the Turmoil of the Global Financial Crisis, Agustín Ruiz Robledo; Chapter 6 The Constitution and the Financial Crisis in the UK: Historical and Contemporary Lessons, John F. McEldowney; Part III Second Path: Submission; Chapter 7 The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Greek Constitution, Xenophon Contiades, Ioannis A. Tassopoulos; Chapter 8 The Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Constitution’s Negative Outlook: A Portuguese Preliminary Assessment, Jónatas E.M. Machado; Part IV Third Path: Breakdown; Chapter 9 Breaking and Making Constitutional Rules: The Constitutional Effects of the Financial Crisis in Hungary, Zoltán Szente; Chapter 10 The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Icelandic Constitutional Law: Legislative Reforms, Judicial Review and Revision of the Constitution, Björg Thorarensen; Part V Fourth Path: Stamina; Chapter 11 The United States Constitution and the Great Recession, Mark Tushnet;