The paper argues that, by bringing a number of changes of systemic proportions in the order of international law, the internationalisation of national constitutional human rights law has led to the “constitutionalisation” of international law. To build that argument, the paper first...

States and societies are globally interconnected and interdependent. External effects of national policies challenge democratic self-determination in other states. An increasing density of relations among people worldwide through communication, migration, traveling as well as through global...

In this essay I review the new book by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which investigates the policy and economic consequences of different forms of government and electoral rules. I also take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the advantages and...

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

At first blush, the relationship between sustainability and environmental constitutionalism seems strained if not strange. Environmental sustainability represents a there-and-then perspective that promotes the idea that present lives in being should consume natural resources at a rate and in a...