A Kelsenian model of constitutional adjudication^**This paper is based on a lecture delivered at Waseda University, Tokyo in November 2010. Many thanks, once again, to Professor Koji Tonami and Professor Kaoru Obata for their kind invitation and their outstanding hospitality, to Claudia Fuchs for reviewing this manuscript, and to Professor Michael Holoubek for his willingness to discuss select aspects of this paper.
For a general introduction to Austrian Constitutional Law in English see Manfred Stelzer, An Introduction to Austrian Constitutional Law² (2009) and, more recently, Manfred Stelzer, The Constitution of the Republic of Austria: A Contextual Analysis (2011); for a brief summary of the most important proceedings before the Austrian Constitutional Court see Ronald Faber, The Austrian Constitutional Court–An Overview, ICL-journal 2008, No. 1, 49.