Constitutional legitimacy and how that legitimacy empowers and limits constitutional actors and institutions has become increasingly important. After the wave of constitution making and innovation constitutional developments in the 1990s there has been a regression in liberal constitutionalism and rule of law across the globe. This panel will explore several topics concerning the nature of constitutional legitimacy and the fundamental values and constitutionalism that from such legitimacy. It seeks to investigate how and why certain constitutional structures are more legitimate and provide for a government that is more efficacious. It also investigates the way in which protection of individual and group rights supports constitutional order and legitimacy.