Comparative Constitutional Law

Professor Vicki C. Jackson is the Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard. She regularly teaches and writes about U.S. Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, and Comparative Constitutional Law, and, occasionally, on Constitutional Aspects of the Administrative State in Comparative Perspective; Knowledge Institutions in Constitutional Democracy; Positive Constitutionalism and the United States; Proportionality Review; Gender Equality; and Government Immunities. Her scholarly articles have appeared in leading law reviews (at Harvard, Yale, Stanford and elsewhere), and her books include Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era. She was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2020 and became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.Professor Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law, has written numerous books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall and Advanced Introduction to Comparative Constitutional Law, Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of Constitutional Law, Why the Constitution Matters, and Weak Courts, Strong Rights: Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Perspective, and has edited several others. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Professor Rosalind Dixon is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice. Her work focuses on comparative constitutional law and constitutional design, constitutional democracy, theories of constitutional dialogue and amendment, socio-economic rights and constitutional law and gender, and has been published in leading journals in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. She is the co-editor, with Tom Ginsburg, of a leading handbook on comparative constitutional law, Comparative Constitutional Law. She is currently the Centre Director of the Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law and is the immediate past co-president of the International Society of Public Law.Professor Madhav Khosla is the B. R. Ambedkar Professor of Indian Constitutional Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Khosla's work has focused on the nature and form of constitutions, especially from a comparative and theoretical perspective, and on the many ways in which law enables and constrains the possibilities for self-rule. His scholarly writings have appeared in numerous leading journals and edited collections, and his many books include India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy, which was an Economist Best Book of 2020 and co-winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award 2021. Khosla's work has been cited by courts in India and Pakistan.

• Chapter I - IntroductionChapter II - What Is Comparative Constitutional Law?Chapter III - Constitutions and ConstitutionalismChapter IV - Creating and Amending ConstitutionsChapter V - Constitutional Entrenchment, Courts and DemocracyChapter VI - Constitutional Courts: Structure and ProcedureChapter VII - Separation of Powers: Governments, Courts and Emergency PowersChapter VIII - Federalism: Power Sharing and Minority ProtectionChapter IX - Pluralism, Rights, and EqualityChapter X - Religious Pluralism and Constitutional LawChapter XI - Freedoms of Expression and Association