INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION: FREUDENSTADT ROUND-TABLE MEETINGS.

The article focuses on the International Political Science Association's Freudenstadt Round Table Meetings, held as of November 1, 1963. Four sessions were devoted to this first subject of the round table. Proceedings followed rather closely the arrangement set out in the general rapporteurs first working paper, the role of courts in administering civil and criminal law and in developing individual rights, the role of these courts in deciding constitutional issues affecting governmental and political structure, the position of these courts within the governmental framework. Three sessions of the conference were devoted to a discussion of the role of a constitution in apolitical system. The final session centred on the problem of constitutionalism in newly developing nations.