George Duke

I am delighted to say that Lars Vinx and I have signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for our Handbook on the Limits of Constituent Power. The aim of the Handbook is to shed much-needed critical light on the concept and practice of constituent power.
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.

First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!

Dworkin less so, which is reassuring!

Raz Between Authority and Interpretation looks like it has done a few miles

The True Joseph de Maistre Often caricatured as reactionary, his writing is actually strikingly modern.

Don’t know of a major or standard treatment. The Kochin article in fn 5 of this review of Owen Bradley’s book follows the Straussian hermeneutic for sure, was published in Polis
modernagejournal.com/the-true-jos...

Thanks, will check those out

"New German Cinema" stuff like Fassbinder, early Herzog and Wenders. A lot of it is on you tube with (sometimes dodgy) subtitles. Watching Fassbinder's Welt am Draht too many times helped me a lot, particularly for comprehension

These books are great, I found you can mix up attentive listening and having it on in the background sometimes too. I also swear by 1970s German movies. Somehow the dialogue is easier to follow around A2 level and if you get something you like multiple viewings works wonders

Hard agree. Languages have their own rhythms and modulations etc. so even if you don’t understand the content something significant is lost. So it’s not even that irrational IMO

Sandra Leonie Field’s work is worth a look and prob suited to the level. Recent articles build on Field’s analyses of power in Hobbes and Spinoza (see Potentia, OUP, 2020)

Suzhou Gate to East from below

A new volume of Comparative Constitutional Studies is out. Honouring @cherylas1.bsky.social, with contributions on the themes that dominated her trailblazing career: global constitutionalism, federalism, constitution making and rule of law. 🌟Open access for the next three weeks. 🌟

My latest piece in Global Constitutionalism. While it contributes to a somewhat niche debate, it might interest you if you are keen on the debates on the Basic Structure Doctrine or the Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments Doctrine.

Open Access Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios

Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...

For all the Blumenberg fans out there

Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror, Francesco Parmagianino (1523)

Astutely identifying some underlying Calvinism there

Found this incredibly useful when looking at constituent power in devolved contexts in the UK - well worth reading!

This article (co-authored with Nicholas Aroney and Stephen Tierney) sets out some preliminary findings from our ARC project on plural constituent power in federal systems.

A theory of plural constituent power for federal systems | Global Constitutionalism www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Francis Street, Salford

Francis Street, Salford https://www.wikiart.org/en/l-s-lowry/francis-street-salford-1957

1/ Ming-Sung Kuo's important article on the objects & corresponding methods of comparative constitutional studies, forthcoming in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and available on SSRN, can be read as an effort to systematize pluralist & eclectic methods in wide use. I remain skeptical about ...

Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).

Je vous remercie!

New books!

I'm trying to track down the name of the illustrator, if anyone knows?

Illustration from Luhmann's "Verfassung als evolutionäre Errungenschaft" (Rechtshistorisches Journal, 1990).

Thanks Murray, would welcome any thoughts you have

Published version of my critique of appeals to "constitutional values" now available online first in Federal Law Review.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ideological Constitutionalism A renewed interest in the concept of ideology is evident in recent constitutional theory. Ideology has featured prominently not only in restatements of traditional Marxist positions and attempted ret....

New Paper: “Ideological Constitutionalism” (Modern Law Review)

Paper attempts to:
- Develop an account of constitutional ideology that synthesises insights from Marxism/realism/systems theory
- Identify ideological dimensions of modern constitutionalism

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....