This article analyses the rise of populism and its discursive challenge to global constitutionalism (GC). It shows that populist contestation is more ambivalent than often suggested: its challenge depends on the populist variety and can both undermine or support liberal principles of GC....

Global Constitutionalists have described and analyzed how with the spread of rights based judicial review after the end of the Cold War proportionality analysis has become a central feature of reasoning about rights. Yet one of the core questions such a practice raises concerns the legal point...