Writing While Quarantined: A Personal Interpretation of Contemporary Comparative Constitutional Law
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Mark Tushnet
Abstract
This Essay is a personal reflection on the state of scholarship in the field of comparative constitutional law. I draw parallels between the development of and reaction to ‘critical perspectives’ on domestic US comparative constitutional law today. I argue that the parallels have similar political roots, in concern that critical perspectives undermine the ability of constitutional law, whether domestic or comparative, to resist conservative and antiliberal tendencies. I conclude with some speculations about the source of the political commitments by scholars of comparative constitutional law, and in particular about the way the field’s overall cosmopolitanism affects scholarship on anti-cosmopolitan populisms.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Legitimate and Illegitimate Political Self-entrenchment and Its Impact on Political Equality
- The Constitutional Imaginary: Shared Meanings in Constitutional Practice and Implications for Constitutional Theory
- Notes and Essays
- Writing While Quarantined: A Personal Interpretation of Contemporary Comparative Constitutional Law
- Self-Determination Through Autonomy or Independence? – On the Current and Future Position of New Caledonia
- Names beyond Gender-Based Borders
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Articles
- Legitimate and Illegitimate Political Self-entrenchment and Its Impact on Political Equality
- The Constitutional Imaginary: Shared Meanings in Constitutional Practice and Implications for Constitutional Theory
- Notes and Essays
- Writing While Quarantined: A Personal Interpretation of Contemporary Comparative Constitutional Law
- Self-Determination Through Autonomy or Independence? – On the Current and Future Position of New Caledonia
- Names beyond Gender-Based Borders
