Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : imposition in making and changing constitutions / Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Imposed constitutions : heteronomy and (un)amendability / Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou -- Imposed constitutions and romantic constitutions / David S. Law -- Internally imposed constitutions / Yaniv Roznai -- Legal theology in imposed constitutionalism / Antoni Abat Ninet -- Constitutions imposed with consent? / Richard Albert -- Are "octroyed constitutions" of the 19th century to be considered as imposed constitutions? / Jörg Gerkrath -- Inter-venire, sed ubi iri? : "imposed" constitutions, the "will of the people", and the eye of the beholder / Zoran Oklopcic -- On the priority that publius gives to national security in constitutional design : reflections on the longevity of article 9 of the Japanese constitution / Sanford Levinson -- The constituent power of the "imposed" constitution of Japan : an amalgam of internationalised revolutionary power and nationalistic devolutionary power / Yota Negishi -- The legitimacy of internationally imposed constitution-making in the context of state building / Manon Bonnet -- A post-national legal order : does the European Union have an imposed constitution? / Graham Butler -- Texts in a time of imposition : lessons from two imposed constitutions in Africa / James Fowkes.