By Ragnhildur Helgadottir

Courts of a few Nordic international locations begun reviewing the constitutionality of laws lengthy earlier than judicial evaluation was once confirmed in other places in Europe. This examine examines the impact of yank legislations and theories of judicial evaluation at the improvement, perform and theorization of judicial overview in Norway, Denmark, and Iceland from the nineteenth century to the current. The learn describes how Nordic students within the past due nineteenth century rationalized judicial evaluation according to American concept and the way American legislations encouraged either their perspectives of the establishment and their state of mind approximately great constitutional rights. those perspectives in flip encouraged Nordic jurisprudence for many years. the writer then exhibits how the adjustments that happened in American constitutional jurisprudence within the Thirties and Forties prompted Nordic constitutional conception and constitutional jurisprudence. those alterations bought major recognition in Nordic felony circles and the learn examines how those adjustments, in addition to the yankee and Nordic thought that outfitted on them, stimulated Nordic jurisprudence. eventually, it truly is argued that American impression during this quarter of legislation replaced after 1965. Direct references to and discussions of yank legislation virtually disappeared from Nordic jurisprudence. American constitutional legislation used to be, even if, a tremendous impression at the case-law of the ecu courtroom of Human Rights, which significance elevated during this interval. the ecu conference of Human Rights and the Court’s judgements have in flip immensely encouraged Nordic constitutional legislations.