The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the adoption of Bangladesh Constitution provides an opportunity to examine whether the country practised constitutionalism since the constitution came into ...

My review of Adrian Vermeule's new book Common Good Constitutionalism in the Claremont Review of Books is now posted. You can download it here. There was more in the ...

Last year, Hugo Chavez amended Venezuela's constitution and abolished term limits. The entire business was a bit odd, but not because the constitution was changed, which is quite common in Latin ...

South Africa’s legal framework often symbolises equality, yet fails to address ongoing harm to the poor, emphasising the need for restorative constitutionalism that repairs, rather than merely ...

Abstract: The idea of an “Internet Bill of Rights” is by no means a new one: in fact, serious efforts to draft such a document can be traced at least as far back as the mid-1990s. Though the form, ...

“Here are a few things the framers did not know about: World War II. DNA. Sexting. Airplanes. The atom. Television. Medicare. Collateralized debt obligations. The germ theory of disease. Miniskirts.

This Article argues that in order to understand the constitutional categories of a polity governed by Confucian norms, we must seize upon the idea of ritual as the key concept. By describing the ...

In 2023, Mark Tushnet and Aaron Belkin published an "Open Letter to the Biden Administration on Popular Constitutionalism" making recommendations on how the Biden Administration should respond to the ...

Now available online from the spring 2012 issue of the Claremont Review of Books is an excellent essay by University of Virginia professor of politics James W. Ceaser that aims to recover the concept ...

When a widely acclaimed Harvard Law School professor publishes a book that another Harvard Law professor calls “the most important book of constitutional theory in many decades,” it’s certainly worth ...

Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez directs entrepreneurial development programs for the Sucre municipal government in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a graduate of Carleton College and the Harvard Kennedy School.