Introduction : Pt. 2 : Conclusion : Tania Groppi and Marie-Claire Ponthoreau --|g Pt. 1: Cheryl Saunders and Adrienne Stone. -- Gianluca Gentili --|t India: a "critical" use of foreign precedents in constitutional adjudication / Valentina Rita Scotti -- Cristina Fasone -- Suzie Navot -- Irene Spigno -- Christa Rautenbach -- Anna Gamper -- Stefan Martini -- Zoltán Szente -- Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor and Rubén Sánchez Gil -- Elena Simina Tanasescu and Stefan Deaconu -- Sergey Belov -- Wen-Chen Chang and Jiunn-Rong Yeh -- Angioletta Sperti -- Tania Groppi and Marie-Clair Ponthoreau. the methodology of the research : how to assess the reality of transjudicial communication? / Reference to foreign precedents by the Australian High Court: a matter of method / Canada: protecting rights in a "worldwide rights culture", an empirical study of the use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court of Canada (1982-2010) / The Supreme Court of Ireland and the use of foreign precedents: the value of constitutional history / Israel: creating a constitution: the use of foreign precedents by the Supreme Court (1994-2010) / Namibia: the Supreme Court as a foreign law importer / South Africa: teaching an "old dog" new tricks? an empirical study of the use of foreign precedents by the South African Constitutional Court (1995-2010) / Austria : non-cosmopolitan, but Europe-friendly : the Constitutional Court's comparative approach / Lifting the constitutional curtain? the use of foreign precedent by the German Federal Constitutional Court / Hungary : unsystematic and incoherent borrowing of law : the use of foreign judicial precedents in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court, 1999-2010 / A gap between the apparent and hidden attitudes of the Supreme Court of Japan towards foreign precedents /|rAkiko Ejima -- Mexico : struggling for an open view in constitutional adjudication / Romania: analogical reasoning as a dialectical instrument / Russia: foreign transplants in the Russian Constitution and invisible foreign precedents in decisions of the Russian Constitutional Court / Judges as discursive agent : the use of foreign precedents by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan / United States of America : first cautious attempts of judicial use of foreign precedents in the Supreme Court's jurisprudence / The use of foreign precedents by constitutional judges : a limited practice, an uncertain future /