Join the HLS Library on April 8th at 12:30 for an HLS Lib rary Book Talk in Milstein East B. This event features a discussion on Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet with HLS Pro fessor Emeritus Mark Tushnet and volume editors HLS Professor\, Vicki Jacks on and Columbia Law School Professor\, Madhav Khosla. This event is free an d will be recorded\, open to all Harvard ID holders in person\, and open to the public on Zoom Webinars.
Register to attend in person\, Harvard ID requir ed. Register by April 1st< span data-contrast="none"> for a complimentary lunch.
Register for the livestrea m via Zoom Webinars\, open to the public. Livestream does not include lunch.
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More abou t the book from the publisher Oxford University Press:
Redefining Comparative Constitution al Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet refle cts upon the field of comparative constitutional law\, which has emerged in recent decades as a major domain of scholarship and judicial practice. Amo ng the most prominent figures in the ongoing renaissance of this field has been Mark Tushnet. This book uses the occasion of Professor Tushnet’s recen t retirement from Harvard Law School to think critically about the field. E ach chapter takes up one of Professor Tushnet’s major recent themes. To beg in with\, the book both takes off from and ends with reflections on Tushnet ’s curiosity about the world\; it considers different questions of methodol ogy\, canon\, empiricism\, and language. Another set of essays then conside r the relationships among constitutionalism\, liberal democracy\, and inter national law\, including reflections on debates over constitutional design\ , global values\, and constituent power. A third focus of the next set of c hapters is the relationship of rights to courts and legislatures\, in liber al democracies\, the countries of the Global South\, and First World autocr acies. Fourth\, reflecting Tushnet’s work on constitutionalism outside the courts is a set of chapters exploring institutional design and the role of nonjudicial actors\, such as fourth branch institutions. Fifth is a set of essays that focus on variations within liberal constitutionalism and the po ssibility of other forms of constitutionalism under different political reg imes. An epilogue by Professor Tushnet reflects further on constituent powe r and constitutional theory.
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