The seminar will explore the issues entailed in the drafting and uses of a constitution. To what extent do constitutions reflect universal values (such as human rights), and to what extent are they grounded in the culture and values of a particular people? How much borrowing goes on in the writing of a constitution?

This course takes an interdisciplinary, comparative, and empirical perspective on the design and operation of courts as institutions.

Special Topics in Comparative Politics

This course is a semester-long independent research project resulting in a substantial research paper supervised and graded by a selected law school faculty member