After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose

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 leg

Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issu

A scientific study of the political and economic factors influencing democratic decision making

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic const