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Landmark judgments, constitutional revolutions and comparative constitutional law
On landmark judgments:
● Constitutional landmark judgments in the Commonwealth, online at https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/constitutional-landmark-judgments-in-the-commonwealth
● Constitutional landmark judgments in Central and South America, online at https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/constitutional-landmark-judgments-in-central-and-south-america
● Constitutional landmark judgments in Asia, online at https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/constitutional-landmark-judgments-in-asia
● Constitutional landmark judgments in the MENA region, online at https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/menaregion
On constitutional revolution:
● Gary J. Jacobsohn & Yaniv Roznai, Constitutional Revolution, Yale University Press 2020
● Bruce Ackerman, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law, Harvard University Press 2019
● Richard Albert, Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions, Oxford University Press 2019
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Constitutional Dimensions of Academic Freedom
Article Judith Butler, ‘Academic Freedom and the Critical Task of the University’ (2017) 14(6) Globalizations 857
Book Carolyn Evans & Adrienne Stone, Open Minds: Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech (Black Inc. 2021)
Book Stanley Fish, Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution (University of Chicago, 2014)
Article Liora Lazarus, ‘Constitutional Scholars as Constitutional Actors’ (2020) 48 Federal Law Review 483
Video Renáta Uitz, ‘Academic Freedom as a Human Right?’ (9 February 2021)
Chapter Max Weber, ‘Science as Vocation’ in Hans H Gerth & Charles W Mills (eds), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (Oxford University Press, 1946)
Book Eric Barendt, Academic Freedom and the Law: A Comparative Study (Hart Publishing, 2010)
Journal Wissenschaftsrecht (in German with abstracts in English)
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The Global South in Comparative Constitutional Law
Article Cheryl Saunders, ‘Towards a Global Constitutional Gene Pool’ (2009) 4(3) National Taiwan University Law Review 21-38
Book Ran Hirschl, Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2014) 1-19
Book Madhav Khosla, India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2020)
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Languages and Comparative Constitutional Method
Book Rohit De, The People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press, 2018)
Article Suzie Navot, ‘The Invisible Problem of Language in Comparative Constitutional Law’ (2014) 25 King's Law Journal 301-312
Chapter Vivian Grosswald Curran, ‘Comparative Law and Language’ in Mathias Reinmann & Reinhard Zimmermann (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (2nd ed. Oxford University Press, 2019)
Book Ran Hirschl, Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Book Adam Chilton & Mila Versteeg, How Constitutional Rights Matter (Oxford University Press, 2020) (as an example of empirical, large-n method)
Article Kim Lane Scheppele, ‘Constitutional Ethnography: An Introduction’ (2004) 38 Law and Society Review 389-406 (on ethnographic method)
Research Paper Rosalind Dixon, ‘How to Compare Constitutionally: An Essay in Honour of Mark Tushnet’ UNSW Law Research Paper No. 21 (2020)
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Post-Soviet Eurasian Constitutionalism
Article Giovanni Sartori, ‘Constitutionalism: A Preliminary Discussion’ (1962) 56(4) The American Political Science Review 853-864
Chapter Richard Sakwa, ‘Constitutionalism and Accountability in Contemporary Russia: The Problem of Displaced Sovereignty’ in Gordon B. Smith & Robert Sharlet (eds) Russia and its Constitution: Promise and Political Reality (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008) 1-21
Book Annelli Albi & Samo Bardutzky (eds), National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, the Rule of Law (Springer, 2019)