Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. [287]-475) e índice.

Acknoeledgments and permissions -- A note to readers on citations and abbrebiations -- 1. Introduction: constitutional cosmology, convergence, resitance , and engagement -- 1. Resisting the transnational -- 2. Convergence eith the transnational -- 3. Engagement with the transnational -- 4. Constitutional adjudication in the u.s. supreme court: why engage the transnational -- 5. Engagement, u.s. interpretive theory, and multifunctional -- 6. Engacign the transnational: a contextual framework -- 7. Engagement, equality, and older constitutions -- 8. Constitutional particularotoes, federalism, and the transnational -- 9. Constituions as mediating institions, transnational constitutional values, and engagement in twenty.first century constitutional interpretation -- Notes -- Table of cases -- Index