The executive branch in Western democracies has been granted a virtually impossible task: expected to 'imperially' direct the life of the nation through thick and thin, it is...
The third wave of democracy that reached African shores at the end of the Cold War brought with it a dramatic decline from 1990 onwards in dictatorships, military regimes, one-party...
This book analyses unamendability in democratic constitutionalism and engages critically and systematically with its perils, offering a much-needed corrective to existing...
Law is fast globalizing as a field, and many lawyers, judges, and political leaders are engaged in a process of comparative "borrowing". But this new form of legal globalization has...
In this book, based on her 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, Seana Valentine Shiffrin offers an original, deontological account of democracy, law, and their interrelation. Her central...
This book, one of the first of its kind, explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on modern Western democracies from a comparative constitutional law and policy perspective....
This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilizing issues on minority rights in Europe and North America. This collection stems from the fact that liberal democracy did not...
Refuge beyond Reach shows how rich democracies deliberately and systematically shut down most legal paths to safety. Media pundits, politicians, and the public are often skeptical or...
A broad explanation of the various dimensions of the problem of \"bad\" speech on the internet within the American context. One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do...