🇲🇽 ⚖ 'Is the Supreme Court of the Mexico *Truly* Supreme?' was the title of my lecture yesterday at the Congreso Internacional de Jurisprudencia Poder Judicial Edomex. Thank you to Ricardo Sodi Cuellar Ricardo Sepúlveda Rafael EstradaMichél. 🙏🏽

La más que sugerente conferencia del Dr. Richard Albert sobre la auténtica supremacía de las Cortes supremas, en el Congreso Internacional de Jurisprudencia del Poder Judicial Edomex . Una joya Ricardo Sodi Cuellar Ricardo Sepúlveda

🏅 The most cited Italian constitutionalists:

1. Marta Cartabia | 2900 citations
2. Nicola Lupo | 1984 citations
3. Sergio Bartole | 1761 citations
4. Cesare Pinelli | 1634 citations
5. Andrea Manzella | 1535 citations

From my newsletter, The Leaflet: richardalbert.myflodesk.com/leaflet

We are delighted to inform you that the upcoming Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur TALK organised by the Academic Outreach Committee will be delivered by Richard Albert (William Stamps Farish Professor in Law,Professor of Government and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas)

🏆 The Top 10 law schools in the world, according to QS, Times Higher Education, EduRank, and Research.

🤩 An important critical study of comparative law, with a deep dive into the Ecuadorian constitutional order, authored by my friend Pablo Alarcón Peña.

Available in Open Access: repositorio.uasb.edu.ec/bitstream/1064…

🇬🇾 The members of Guyana's Constitutional Reform Commission are now sworn-in.

The President of Guyana has urged the Commission to draft the new Constitution 'in clear and accessible language, comprehensible to the average individual.' 👍🏽

Details: op.gov.gy/index.php/2024…

🌍 In Monday's edition of my free newsletter on constitutions, 'The Leaflet':

1. Best law schools
2. Most cited Italian scholars
3. Constitutional Court interviews in South Africa
4. Canadian Supreme Court annual report
5. And more!

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📝 Advice for converting your PhD dissertation into a book.

(Thanks to Alison Kirk at Routledge for sharing the document. 🙏🏽)

Richard Albert, director del Programa de Estudios Constitucionales de UTexasLaw, invita a nuestros profesores, alumni y alumnos, a inscribirse en este magnífico curso internacional a desarrollarse en el campus de UT Austin 🇺🇸.

Inscripciones: uees.edu.ec/constitutional…

📢 The increasing percentage of Americans who do *not* feel free to speak their mind:

1954: 13%
1987: 20%
2023: 48%

Source: 'The Rise of Self-Censorship in America' by Joseph L. Sutherland & James L. Gibson

Full Text: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

⚖️ Should courts resolve constitutional cases by majority or supermajority vote?

This new book by Mauro Arturo Rivera León analyzes the history, theory, and consequences of supermajority voting rules on courts. 🤩

Available in Open Access: taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…

Invitados a inscribirse en este extraordinario curso internacional (presencial) en UT Austin 🇺🇸 organizado por el Programa de Estudios Constitucionales de UTexasLaw dirigido por el Profesor Richard Albert y Universidad Espíritu Santo .

📚 Just published! The Research Handbook on Authoritarianism, edited by Natasha Lindstaedt Jeroen Van den Bosch, and featuring chapters by 20+ scholars. 🤩

Details: elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

📜 Why do Americans venerate their constitution? Aziz Rana traces the historical roots and modern consequences of constitutional veneration in his new book, 'The Constitutional Bind.'

Details: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Hoy llegaron desde la U.Externado Departamento de Derecho Constitucional- UExternado .

Richard Albert y Carlos Bernal Pulido son referentes del constitucionalismo panamericano. En su amistad dialogan los problemas comunes de dos familias del Derecho.
Siempre que se pueda hay que leerlos.
Mario Herrera Adrián Rentería Díaz

🤩 A new paper by Michel Rosenfeld: 'Illiberal Constitutionalism: Viable Alternative or Nemesis of the Modern Constitutional Ideal?' Coming soon in the 2nd edition of Comparative Constitutional Theory.

Full draft: ssrn.com/abstract=47418…

🇧🇷 The 5 most cited Brazilian women in Constitutional Law.

1. Ana Maria D'Ávila Lopes | 1294 citations
2. Eneida Desiree Salgado | 974 citations
3. Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza | 955 citations
4. Janaína Rigo Santin | 835 citations
5. Melina Girardi Fachin | 742 citations

🚀 Special Announcement. I have been appointed chairperson of the Interplanetary Constitutional Consortium. Full details below.