Founding Moments in Constitutionalism

Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin.Menaka Guruswamy is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and was the BR Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School from 2017 to 2019.Nishchal Basnyat is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He was also the Lt Charles Fiske III Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge University.

• Introduction: Mapping the Founding Richard Albert and Menaka Guruswamy1. Between Fact and Norm: Narrative and the Constitutionalisation of Founding Moments Ming-Sung Kuo2. The Role of Courts in Advancing Constitutional Moments: Constitutionalising the Constitution in Singapore and Hong Kong Swati Jhaveri3. Foundation and Revolution: Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Legitimacy and Stability in Constitutional Consolidation Mel A Topf4. I am Not Your (Founding) Father Mikolaj Barczentewicz5. ‘And Then They Begin to Look after the History of Their Founders’: (Re)configurations of the Founding in the Early Republic Simon Gilhooley6. Under the Shadow of the Constitutional Revolution? Revisiting Israel’s Founding Moments Yair Sagy7. Path-Dependency in Soviet and Russian Constitution-Making Eugene D Mazo8. ‘Founding Moments’ in Latin America? Th e Brazilian and Chilean Constitutional Histories and the Rise of the Forgotten People Juliano Zaiden Benvindo9. We the Taiwanese People: A Constitution with Two Antagonistic Constitutional Identities Chien-Chih Lin10. What’s in a Founding? Founding Moments and Pakistan’s ‘Permanent Constitution’ of 1973 Maryam S Khan11. A Founding Moment in Iraq: A Gender Perspective Noga EfratiConclusion: Rethinking Founding Moments Nishchal Basnyat