🇮🇸 📝 📜 After the financial meltdown of 2008, Iceland launched an innovative effort to crowd-source a new constitution. The process failed, dashing the hopes many had for a new beginning. The Icelandic Constitution turns 80 years old next month.

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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 This is an excellent student note, just published in the Harvard Law Review. It is a comparative study of the (in)famous Notwithstanding Clause in Canada, inquiring whether and how it might be applied in the United States. Worth reading!

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🌍 An important new paper by my friend Vlad Perju, just published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law: 'Elements of a Doctrine of Transnational Constitutional Norms.' Worth reading right away!

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A faithful DC metro companion. Been working through this excellent collection of constitutional scholars over the past year since first grabbing it in Bogotá. Includes essays on judicial review of constitutional amendment, reform, etc. Richard Albert Carlos Bernal Pulido Juliano Zaiden Benvindo

🇨🇦 Is there reason to worry about democracy in Canada? Hoi Kong and Carissima Mathen will lead a discussion on Canadian constitutional law and politics today, Thursday, May 2, at 8pm Toronto/NYC time. All are welcome!

Zoom link: cuaieed-unam.zoom.us/j/85975786373?… #cdnpoli

🏅 The most cited American constitutional scholars:

1. Lawrence Lessig | 45556 citations
2. Mark Tushnet | 33662 citations
3. Frederick Schauer | 31427 citations
4. Akhil Reed Amar | 22107 citations
5. Erwin Chemerinsky | 21920 citations

🏅 The Top 20 journals in International and Comparative Law, according to Google Scholar.

Congratulations to the #1 journal in the field: the German Law Journal. 🎉

🇭🇹 ⛓️ When Haitians defeated the French military and ended slavery on the island, France and its allies forced Haiti to pay reverse-reparations for the abolition of slavery. Today, a UN group is urging France to repay its ill-gotten gains.

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🏅 The most downloaded Constitutional Law papers on SSRN -- all-time and in the last 60 days.

🤩 The greatest scholar of constitutional studies of our time, Sandy Levinson, discussing his book 'Our Undemocratic Constitution' (OUP 2006), with students in my course 'Amending the U.S. Constitution' here UT Austin. A treat for us all. 🙏🏽

👀 Lives scenes from the University of Texas at Austin. Peace and safety to all. 🙏🏽

📚 A powerfully provocative book with a truly beautiful cover.

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🇨🇦 ⚖️ The Canadian Supreme Court has published its 2023 annual report. The data reveal that the Court in 2023 took longer to deliver fewer rulings than in prior years. On the other hand, the percentage of the Court's unanimous rulings was the fourth highest since 2014.

📜 Tomorrow, I will give a lecture on 'Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment' at Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, with thanks to @SwatiSParmar. 🙏🏽

All are welcome! 🤩

🇪🇨 I admire the great tradition of people-powered constitutional politics in Ecuador. Granted, constitutional politics can be hijacked for regressive purposes, as Ecuador's history shows. But yesterday's successful referendum was a victory for peace and security for the country.

📜 In the next edition of my free newsletter on constitutions:

1. Most cited U.S. scholars
2. Unconstitutional amendments in Mexico
3. New Guggenheim fellow in Constitutional Studies
4. New movie on the Indian Constitution
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🥳 Just published: 'Advanced Introduction to Federalism' by Alain-G. Gagnon and Arjun Tremblay, a dynamic duo in the study of multilevel constitutionalism, multinationalism, and multiculturalism.

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With my friends Richard Albert and Rafael EstradaMichél #CongresoInternacionaldeJurisprudencia Poder Judicial Edomex

🇲🇽 ⚖ '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