Constitutional Interpretation: Principles by P Ishwara Bhat

This book is a valuable treatise on the subject, which provides a comprehensive insight into all the principles of constitutional interpretation. With special reference to India. It systematically presents the doctrines, theories, and principles developed by the judiciary for interpreting the Constitution, supported by leading case law, academic views, and comparative constitutional perspectives.

The work examines internal and external aids to interpretation, text-based, structural, and value-based approaches, and the expanding toolkit of constitutional interpretation in light of transformative constitutionalism. It identifies and analyses both traditional tools such as textualism and doctrinalism, and emerging approaches like structuralism, pragmatism, consequentialism, moral reading, feminism, contextualism, and eclecticism.

Key Features:

• Exclusive and exhaustive treatise devoted solely to constitutional interpretation in India
• All doctrines and principles compiled in one volume, with systematic classification
• Covers traditional and modern interpretative tools - textual, structural, purposive, moral, pragmatic and contextual approaches
• Extensive case law coverage, including landmark Supreme Court decisions
• Comparative constitutional insights drawing from foreign jurisdictions
• Clear distinction between statutory interpretation and constitutional interpretation

This book is intended for advocates, judicial officers, law professors and researchers, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate law students studying constitutional law. It is also a valuable reference for constitutional law libraries, law universities, and academic institutions, and will interest general readers seeking to understand constitutional governance and judicial interpretation.