While some scholars explain why arguments that limit the scope of discrimination to the classic grounds of race, gender, and so on, are not convincing, none of them establishes a positive argument as to why and when we should consider irrelevant distinctions that are not based on the classic grounds as discrimination. This paper explains...
Response to The Alchemists book
This response will be based on David Landau‘s expertise in the area of constitution‐building and democracy‐building, and on constitutional courts in particular. Prof. Landau has already read the book in full and provided a blurb on the book’s Cambridge Press webpages stating: “Comparative constitutionalists, political scientists, and policymakers have recently shown great faith in the...
Commentary on the book
The commentator will address the problems uncovered in the book relating to the relationship between international law and domestic politics and the role of the Westminster Parliament on questions of national and international security, including the solutions proposed by the book to reinvigorate parliamentary discourse and to address government withholding of classified information.