The papers on this panel, drawn from the forthcoming volume Constitutionalism in Context (CUP 2018), offer contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives on issues and jurisdictions at the cutting edge of the study of constitutionalism. Each chapter introduces the reader to a jurisdiction in a context-rich way, then proceeds to explore an emerging issue at length in...
Tag: <span>Sujit Choudhry</span>
“Will Democracy Die in Darkness? Calling Autocracy by its Name“
The asserted primacy of norms over rules and institutions raises perhaps the greatest challenge for scholars and practitioners of constitutional design. In the midst of the great crisis facing contemporary democracy, in America and globally, is there nothing that the law can do? In this paper, I suggest that with appropriate constitutional anchors, the courts...
Canon construction as an interpretive exercise: A critical perspective
This paper argues that we should look at the project of canon construction as not merely a descriptive, but an interpretive exercise (channeling Dworkin) — and we should think carefully about how matters of experience and perspective (i.e. who is at the table) will shape what counts as canonical, and what cases are part of...
Response to The Alchemists book
This response will be based on Sujit Choudhry‘s expertise in the area of constitution-building and democracy-building, and on the proliferation of constitutional courts in particular. Prof. Choudhry has already read the book in full and provided a blurb on the book’s Cambridge Press webpages stating: “Tom Gerald Daly‘s The Alchemists is an important contribution to...
Reflections on external assistance to constitution making
Professor Choudhry reflects on recent experiences in contexts as diverse as Ukraine, Sri Lanka and the Arab Region to discuss how external assistance impact constitutional design choices.