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Mapping Power: Constitutionalism and its Colonial Legacy

Delaney, Erin F; (2025) Mapping Power: Constitutionalism and its Colonial Legacy. In: Jackson, Vicki and Khosla, Madhav, (eds.) Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.

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Abstract

Redefining Comparative Constitutional Law: Essays for Mark Tushnet reflects upon the field of comparative constitutional law, which has emerged in recent decades as a major domain of scholarship and judicial practice. Among the most prominent figures in the ongoing renaissance of this field has been Mark Tushnet. This book uses the occasion of Professor Tushnet’s recent retirement from Harvard Law School to think critically about the field. Each chapter takes up one of Professor Tushnet’s major recent themes. To begin with, the book both takes off from and ends with reflections on Tushnet’s curiosity about the world; it considers different questions of methodology, canon, empiricism, and language. Another set of essays then consider the relationships among constitutionalism, liberal democracy, and international law, including reflections on debates over constitutional design, global values, and constituent power. A third focus of the next set of chapters is the relationship of rights to courts and legislatures, in liberal democracies, the countries of the Global South, and First World autocracies. 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 possibility of other forms of constitutionalism under different political regimes. An epilogue by Professor Tushnet reflects further on constituent power and constitutional theory.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Mapping Power: Constitutionalism and its Colonial Legacy
ISBN-13: 9780198891451
DOI: 10.1093/9780191996344.001.0001
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191996344.001.0001
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Mark Tushnet, liberal constitutionalism, authoritarian constitutionalism, democracy, constituent power, constitutional methodology, constitutionalism outside courts, Global South
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10210530
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