Books by Chris (University of Manchester) Thornhill

This book examines the social processes that lead to the evolution of legal norms with global constitutional standing in contemporary society. It makes an important contribution to the sociology of constitutional law, post-legal national legal processes and human rights law. This title is also available as Open Access.

A new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy, arguing that it is best understood through a transposition of key insights of classical legal sociology onto the form of global society. It will appeal to post-graduate students in law, political science and the sociology of law, as well as institutional transformation researchers. This title is also available as Open Access.

Combining textual analysis of constitutions and historical reconstruction of formative social processes, Chris Thornhill examines the legitimating role of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents in medieval Europe to recent constitutional transitions.