Constitutional Transitions Visiting Fellow George Anderson is the co-editor of Federal Rivers: Managing Water in Multi-Layered Political Systems, which has just been published by Edward Elgar in the United Kingdom. While there is a considerable literature on the management of river basins across international boundaries, this book is the first to take a systematic and comparative look […]
On 13 and 14 December 2013, Constitutional Transitions Director Sujit Choudhry and Director of Research Richard Stacey attended a two-day roundtable meeting in Cairo, Egypt, analyzing and offering commentary on the then-draft Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The roundtable was organized by the West Asia and North Africa office of International IDEA and […]
Constitutional Transitions visiting fellow George Anderson recently travelled to Yemen, where he is deeply involved with the United Nations team advising that country’s National Dialogue Conference and leadership. His latest trip, from November 1 to November 13, was his fifth this year. Following the removal from power of Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012, Yemen embarked […]
Constitutional Transitions is pleased to introduce Christopher McCrudden, one of six visiting fellows to join the Center this academic year. McCrudden comes to NYU Law from Queen’s University Belfast, where he is a Professor of Human Rights and Equality Law, and the University of Michigan Law School, where he serves as the William W. Cook […]
Constitutional Transitions is proud to introduce Wojciech Sadurski, one of six visiting fellows to join the Center this semester. Sadurski is visiting from the University of Sydney, Australia, where he is the Challis Professor of Jurisprudence. Throughout his career, Sadurski has engaged with theoretical and practical questions regarding constitutional transitions, applying his thinking to national […]
Constitutional Transitions is pleased to introduce Lech Garlicki, one of six visiting fellows to join the Center this semester. Garlicki has served as a Judge on both the European Court of Human Rights and the Constitutional Court in his native Poland. Most recently, he has pursued a series of visiting professorships, first at the University […]
Constitutional Transitions has the pleasure of introducing Mohammad Fadel, one of six visiting fellows to join the Center this semester. Fadel comes to New York from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law. Fadel’s research works to develop […]
Constitutional Transitions is honored to introduce David Dyzenhaus, one of six visiting fellows to join the Center this Fall. Professor Dyzenhaus joins the Center from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he is a Professor of Law and Philosophy. In addition to serving as a visiting fellow for the 2013–14 academic year, he […]
Constitutional Transitions is pleased to introduce George Anderson, one of six visiting fellows to join the Center this semester. Anderson comes to the Center with extensive governmental experience in his native Canada, and has worked around the world to improve governance in existing and emerging federal systems. Currently, he is also working with the United […]
Constitutional Transitions is pleased to welcome six new visiting fellows who will be joining us beginning in Fall 2013. The fellows will be at NYU School of Law for terms ranging from one to two semesters. Hailing from five different countries, the visiting fellows are legal experts, academics, and practitioners with a wealth of experience […]
On 11 July 2013, Constitutional Transitions faculty members Samuel Issacharoff and Mattias Kumm delivered papers at the 5th Constitutional Court Review Symposium, held in Johannesburg, South Africa. Issacharoff and Kumm spoke on a panel entitled “Constitutional Courts as Hedges against Democratic Authoritarianism.” Issacharoff delivered the lead paper for the panel, “The Democratic Risk to Democratic […]
As part of its ongoing two-year partnership with the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), Constitutional Transitions sent three students from New York University School of Law to work as summer researchers at International IDEA’s regional office in Cairo. The summer fellows each prepared a chapter for a manual that International IDEA […]
On 2 May 2013, Constitutional Transitions’ Faculty Director Sujit Choudhry participated as an international expert in a one-day workshop, “Democracy Assessment of Constitutions,” organized by Democracy Reporting International (DRI). The workshop took place in Tunis, Tunisia. The purpose of the workshop was to determine whether there are international law standards ‑ either in hard or soft law ‑ that […]
On 3 May 2013, Constitutional Transitions’ Faculty Director Sujit Choudhry gave a plenary address at an international conference on the establishment of an International Constitutional Court. The conference was convened by Moncef Marzouki, President of the Republic of Tunisia. Creating such a court is an initiative of the Tunisian Presidency. The proposed court would serve […]
This article was first published on 31 May 2013 in the New York Law Journal. The original is available here. Sujit Choudhry last month returned from a trip to Tunisia with 16 members of the recently established Constitutional Transitions Clinic at New York University School of Law, which he directs. Tunisian protesters triggered the ‘Arab […]
The Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law (Constitutional Transitions) is pleased to introduce Spring 2013 visiting fellow Stephen Gardbaum. Professor Gardbaum is joining the Center from the UCLA School of Law, where he is the MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice & Human Rights. A recent Guggenheim Fellow, Gardbaum is internationally recognized for his […]
The Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law (Constitutional Transitions) is very pleased to introduce Radhika Coomaraswamy. Professor Coomaraswamy is a Visiting Fellow of the Center for Spring 2013 and an NYU Global Visiting Professor of Law. Most recently, Professor Coomaraswamy served as the U.N. Under Secretary-General, Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict and […]
With great pleasure, the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law (Constitutional Transitions) would like to introduce Stephen Starr, editor of the Center’s @ConstDev feed and noted author on the uprising and ongoing civil war in Syria. Before joining the Center, Stephen spent five years as a journalist based in Damascus, where he reported first-hand […]
It is the distinct pleasure of the Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law (Constitutional Transitions) to introduce our fellow, Richard Stacey. Richard is primarily responsible for the Center’s research activities. Outside of his work at the Center, Richard is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Law and Society at NYU, an interdisciplinary endeavor […]
The Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law (Constitutional Transitions) is pleased to introduce visiting fellow Gianluca Parolin. Gianluca joins us from the American University of Cairo, where he serves as Assistant Professor of Law. “We are very glad to welcome Gianluca and all of our international fellows,” said Faculty Director Sujit Choudhry. “Their perspective […]