Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law

Madhav Khosla is an Associate Professor of Law at Columbia University. He is interested in the nature and form of constitutions, especially from a comparative and theoretical perspective. Khosla studied political theory at Harvard University, and law at Yale Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Before joining Columbia Law School, he was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Khosla's books include India's Founding Moment, which was an Economist Best Book of 2020 and co-winner of the Order of the Coif Book Award 2021. Vicki C. Jackson, Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, works on comparative constitutional law, U.S. constitutional law, and federal courts. Previously she was Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University. She is the author of Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era (2010), coauthor, with Mark Tushnet, of Comparative Constitutional Law (3d ed. 2014), and co-editor, with Yasmin Dawood, of Constitutionalism and a Right to Effective Government? (2022), among other works. Her scholarship concerns knowledge institutions, effective government and constitutionalism; judicial independence and the Supreme Court, free expression, federalism, pro-constitutional representation, proportionality review, equality, unconstitutional amendments, and standing.

1: Rosalind Dixon: How to Compare Constitutionally: An Essay in Honor of Mark Tushnet
2: Ran Hirschl: Comparative Constitutional Law: Reflections on a Field Transformed
3: Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg: Are Constitutions So Indeterminate that We Cannot Compare Them?
4: Sanford Levinson: Mark Tushnet's Central Contribution-and Challenge-to the Enterprise of Comparative Constitutionalism
5: David S. Law: Canon and Comparative Constitutional Law
6: Kim Lane Scheppele: Foxes, Hedgehogs, and Ants
7: Maartje De Visser: Constitutional Comparisons and Language
8: Frank I. Michelman: Reasonable Disagreement: Mark Tushnet, John Rawls, and a Democratic Point to Constitutionalism
9: Pratap Bhanu Mehta: The Challenge to Liberal Constitutionalism
10: Peter Cane: The Architecture of Constitutionalism
11: Richard Albert: Global Values in National Constitutions
12: Aharon Barak: The Constituent Power and Its Limits
13: Cheryl Saunders: Toward Deeper Dialogue: Constitutional and International Law
14: David Landau: Ancillary Powers of Constitution-Making Bodies
15: Dieter Grimm: Legal Reasoning Matters
16: Catherine O'Regan: The Political Paradox of African Constitutionalism Revisited: Kenya's BBI Case
17: Jeremy Waldron: Rights as the Domain of Weak-Form Review
18: David C. Donald: Common Law and the Liberation of Self-Interest from Regulation
19: Po Jen Yap: Dialogic Judicial Review and First World Autocracies
20: Yaniv Roznai: We the Fourth Branch? The People as an Institution Protecting Democracy
21: Sujit Choudhry: Constitutional Design and Political Parties
22: Vicki C. Jackson: Civic Virtue, Civic Obligation, Knowledge Institutions, and Proconstitutional Actors
23: Bojan BugariÄ: Popular Constitutionalism during Populist Times
24: Cora Chan: Pluralizing Constitutionalism
25: Madhav Khosla: Competitive Populism
26: Erin F. Delaney: Mapping Power Constitutionalism and Its Colonial Legacy
27: Jamal Greene: The Possibilities of Constitutional Tourism
28: Mark Tushnet: Constituent Power in Constitutional Theory, with a Note on Language and Method