American constitutional law assumes that a constitutional ruling yields an immediate
controlling result. When earlier this year in Obergefell v. Hodges' the Supreme Court voted …

The article examines how the concept of constitutional identity has evolved in German
constitutional history since 1871, the year of entry into force of the first Germany-wide …

The notion of constitutional identity is a recent and enigmatic notion in constitutional law and
theory. This Article demonstrates that constitutional identity—understood as a certain …

Mexico's 1917 Constitution has gone through 737 reforms; no other codified constitution has
been subjected to such a constant pattern of renewal through amendment. We argue that …

Iam delighted to be given the opportunity to offer some brief observations following the
fascinating essay by Jon Marshfield on how state courts participate in informal constitutional …

In the 1970s and 1980s, the Supreme Court of India drew scholarly attention globally for its
burgeoning jurisprudence of rights and its activism in public interest litigation (PIL) cases …

Judges and scholars in various countries have recently embraced the doctrine of
unconstitutional constitutional amendments, whereby courts invalidate amendments not on …

This Essay explores the people's right to amend state constitutions and threats to that right
today. It explains how democratic proportionality review can help courts distinguish …

The preamble to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights compelled a central
commitment to the proposition that “[a] ll human beings are born free and equal in dignity …

This Article offers an analysis of the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States
that, unlike most of the existing literature, goes beyond discussions of the jurisprudence of …