Columnists

Dr Ming-Sung Kuo

Dr Ming-Sung Kuo is a reader in law at University of Warwick (UK).  He writes extensively on issues relating to comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, and public international law. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including International Journal of Constitutional Law, European Journal of International Law, and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies.  He is awarded the 2025 Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Constitutional Studies by The Constitutional Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin in the United States.  His article ‘Against Instantaneous Democracy’ (2019) is the winner of the 2020 I·CON Best Paper Prize.  He holds an LLB and an LLM from National Taiwan University and earns an LLM and a JSD from Yale Law School.

Victoria Miyandazi

Victoria Miyandazi (DPhil, MPhil, BCL (Oxon), LLB (KU)) is an Assistant Professor in Public Law at the University of Nottingham (UK). Prior to this, she was the Knight Fellow in Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) and previously lectured at the University of Embu (Kenya). She has also served as a Researcher and Editor at the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and as a Legal Researcher at the Kenyan Judiciary Working Committee on Election Preparations (now the Judiciary Committee on Elections). A practising Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, she worked at Okubasu, Munene & Kazungu Advocates LLP, specialising in constitutional and human rights litigation. Victoria teaches and writes in the areas of equality law, constitutional law, administrative law, human rights, electoral law, property law, public international law, and comparative law. She is the author of Equality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions (Hart Publishing, 2021), which was cited by the Supreme Court of Kenya in a 2025 landmark decision affirming the equal inheritance rights of children born out of wedlock to Muslim parents (SC Petition No. E035 of 2023). She is an inaugural member of the UK Young Academy and serves on the UK & Ireland Academies Human Rights Committee (Academic Freedom). In 2025, she was named one of The Africa Report’s ‘10 African Scholars to Watch’.

Verónica Undurraga

Verónica Undurraga is a professor at the Adolfo Ibáñez University Law School in Chile. Her publications cover topics including equality, gender stereotypes, abortion, the principle of proportionality, constitutional processes, and gender constitutionalism in Latin America, among others. She has been involved in landmark cases on women’s rights in Chile and before the Inter-American Human Rights System. She also served as chair of the Commission of Experts during Chile’s 2023 constitutional process. She is a member of the Red Alas Network and SELA Latin American academic networks, and of the public policy think tank Espacio Público, as well as other civil society organizations in Chile.

Dr. Alexandra Flynn

Dr. Alexandra Flynn is an Associate Professor at UBC’s Allard School of Law and the Director of the Housing Research Collaborative. Her teaching and research focus on municipal, housing, and property law. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, public reports, media articles, and books on how cities are legally understood in law and how they govern. The Housing Research Collaborative comprises CMHC and SSHRC-funded projects focused on Canada’s housing crisis: the Housing Assessment Resource Tools project, which helps communities to measure and address their housing need; and the Balanced Supply of Housing Node, which brings together academic and non-profit community organizations to research responsive land use practices and the financialization of housing. Her current focus is on housing and homelessness, and the legal meaning of the ‘right to housing’.

Yoomin Won

Yoomin Won is an Associate Professor of International Law at Seoul National University School of Law. She earned her bachelor’s degree in law from Seoul National University, followed by a master’s degree (M2R and DSU) from Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. She also holds both a J.S.M. and a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School. Before joining academia, Professor Won served as a Constitution Research Officer at the Constitutional Court of Korea. Her legal experience also includes internships at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international human rights law, the relationship between international and domestic law, and comparative constitutional law.

Jorge González-Jácome

Jorge González-Jácome is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and editor in chief of the Latin American Law Review (LAR). He holds a Doctorate in Juridical Science (SJD) from Harvard University and his research focuses on legal theory, constitutional law and history, and law and literature.

Aparna Chandra

Aparna Chandra is an Associate Professor of Law at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru where she also heads the M.K. Nambyar Chair on Constitutional Law. She teaches and researches on constitutional law, comparative law, human rights, gender and the law, and judicial process reform. Aparna’s recent book, Court on Trial: A Data Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India (with Sital Kalantry and William Hubbard) brings together a decade’s worth of original empirical research on the working of the Indian Supreme Court. Aparna is a co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Constitution of India.

Tania Groppi

Tania Groppi is full professor of Public Law at the University of Siena, where she also teaches Comparative Law and Gender Equality Law. She directed national and international research projects on constitutional justice, constitutional democracy, dialogue between courts. She participated in institution building activities in Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tunisia. She is the author of more than 200 articles and of several books. Among them, the volumes “Federalism” (Laterza, 2004); “Canada” (Il Mulino, 2007); «Menopeggio» (Il Mulino, 2020); “Oltre le gerarchie” (Laterza, 2021). She is editor of the volumes «The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges» (Oxford, 2013, with M.C. Ponthoreau); «Tunisia. The spring of the Constitution ”(Rome, 2015, with I. Spigno); “Nomination procedures and gender balance. An Italian and comparative perspective” (Il Mulino, 2022, with G. Cerrina Feroni); “Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The voice of the justice” (Il Mulino, 2023, with I. Spigno and L. E. Rios Vegas).

Miguel Schor

Miguel Schor is a Professor of Law and the Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center. Professor Schor’s current scholarship focuses on two broad issues: comparative studies of American constitutionalism; and the problems of democratic emergence and erosion. He is currently working on an article entitled “American Constitutional Exceptionalism and Democratic Erosion,” and two book projects. The first book project is the second edition of “Comparative Constitutional Theory” which he co-edits with Gary Jacobsohn; the second is entitled “The Constitution Reader: How our Eighteenth-Century Document is Faring in the Twenty-First Century.”

Teresa Violante

Teresa Violante is a PhD Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She holds a graduate degree in law (University of Coimbra) and a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (University of Padova), and lectures on fundamental rights and constitutional law (University Lusófona, Lisbon). In her PhD project, she investigates weak judicial review by European constitutional courts. She is also the Director of the Institute for the Global Rule of Law of the European Public Law Organization.

João Vitor Cardoso

João Vitor Cardoso was an ethnographer at the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-2022). He is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Chile and holds a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). He studies sociological constitutionalism and constitutional politics with a special focus on Brazil and Chile. His research focuses on constitution-making, rights talk, and legal pluralism. He lectured courses on the judicialization of politics, fundamental rights, and access to justice at the LLM in Constitutional Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Cogeae/PUC-SP) and was a Visiting Scholar at Florida State University (FSU) and at Paris Descartes University (Paris V).  His dissertation consists of a “constitutional ethnography” with the aim of unveiling the extent to which the constitution depends for its normative effectiveness as an institutional design on the very idea of an integrated society and on a constitutional identity commonly shared within a broad spectrum of political forces.

Gautam Bhatia

Gautam Bhatia is an Indian lawyer and legal scholar. He is the author of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution and The Transformative Constitution. His work – including the constitutional law blog, Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy– has been cited on several occasions by the Supreme Court of India. In 2022, he was one of eight amici curae whose submissions were admitted and considered by the Supreme Court of Kenya in its landmark BBI Judgment. He practices law in New Delhi.

Mariana Velasco-Rivera

Mariana Velasco-Rivera is an Assistant Professor in Law at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (Maynooth University). Before joining Maynooth University, Mariana was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism held by Professor Ran Hirschl at the University of Göttingen, Germany (2019-2021) and an Emile Noël Fellow at NYU School of Law (2020-2021). She holds a JSD and an LLM from Yale Law School. Mariana’s research interests are in the field of public law, specifically, constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory. In her research, she explores the relationship between constitutionalism, constitutional design and democracy and how political norms and practices shape legal institutions. Her past, current and forthcoming work has appeared in top law journals and publishing houses such as the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Cambridge University Press and Hart. Mariana is also a Co-Editor of the IACL Blog.

Maartje De Visser

Maartje De Visser is an Associate Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law and Office of Core Curriculum, SMU (Singapore). She received her PhD from Tilburg University, and also holds an MJur from Oxford University and an LL from Maastricht University. Her research is centred around two broad themes: constitutional engagement by courts and non-judicial actors; and transnational judicial dialogues and networking. She further has an abiding interest in studying the operationalisation of global constitutional norms at the national level, as well as in comparative methodology and pedagogy. Maartje is the author of Constitutional Review in Europe – A Comparative Analysis (Hart Publishing, 2014) and her work has appeared in several international journals, including Global Constitutionalism, the American Journal of Comparative Law and the Asian Journal of Law and Society, as well as in numerous edited volumes. Maartje is a member of the editorial board of the Hart Studies in Constitutional Theory series and of the European Yearbook of Constitutional Law. She is a founding co-chair of the Singapore Chapter of ICON-S.

Shamshad Pasarlay

Shamshad Pasarlay is a consultant at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law. Previously, he was a lecturer at Herat University School of Law and Political Science in Afghanistan and a visiting research fellow at the Center for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. He teaches and researches in the areas of constitutionalism, law and religion; institutional engineering in divided societies; Islamic law and courts; and Islamic constitutionalism with a focus on Afghanistan. His publications have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals including the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Michigan State International Law Journal, Washington International Law Journal, Australian Journal of Asian Law, and Ynonsei Law Journal. He was also the founding member of the Afghanistan Constitutional Studies Institute. He received his BA in Islamic studies from Kabul University and an LLM and PhD in comparative constitutionalism from the University of Washington School of Law. Shamshad has been a regular contributor to I-CONNect blog since 2014.

Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco

Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco is a project associate professor of transnational law at the University of Tokyo and an academic fellow at the National University of Singapore Centre for Asian Legal Studies. He holds JSD (2018) and LLM (2014) degrees from Yale Law School and a JD (cum laude, 2009) from the University of the Philippines.

Dr Mara Malagodi

Dr Mara Malagodi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She joined CUHK LAW in August 2019. Dr. Malagodi is a comparative constitutional lawyer and socio-legal scholar with a linguistically-informed specialism in South Asian law and politics (in particular Nepal, India, and Pakistan), human rights law, gender and law, legal history, and law and film. Dr Malagodi is the author of the monograph Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion in Nepal (Oxford University Press, 2013). Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, the Journal of Law and Society, the Federal Law Review, and numerous other journals and edited collections. She is a non-practicing barrister in England and Wales, and an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Dr. Malagodi holds her Doctorate (2009), MA in South Asia Area Studies, and BA (Hons) in Nepali & Politics from the University of London (SOAS). She completed the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) at the City Law School, obtained her Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) from the then College of Law and her BA in International Relations & Diplomacy from the University of Trieste. Dr. Malagodi is a scholar of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, which called her to the Bar of England and Wales in 2016 and awarded her the Quatercentenary Scholarship and Blackstone Entrance Exhibition to support her professional legal training. In 2014 Dr. Malagodi was selected for the UCL Documentary Film Summer School at the Escuela de Cine y TV in Cuba where she co-directed the short documentary film ‘Walking through Havana’ (2014). Her film won the award for Best Short Doc at the 2015 Raindance Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Student Doc at the 2015 Sheffield International Documentary Festival and for Best Short Doc at the 2015 Shuffle Film Festival.

Before joining CUHK, Dr. Malagodi was a Senior Lecturer at the City Law School, University of London (2015-2019), a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2012-2015,) and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (2008-2012). She is on the expert roster of iProbono and ROLE UK, has worked as an external consultant for various United Nations agencies, and has been teaching at the Diplomatic Academy of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.

Berihun Adugna Gebeye

Berihun Adugna Gebeye is Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He teaches and researches in the areas of constitutional theory, law and politics; the law and politics of human rights; and international law and development with a focus on Africa. He is the author of a forthcoming book on African constitutionalism with Oxford University Press. His publications have appeared in several peer-reviewed journals including Global Constitutionalism, VRÜ/World Comparative Law, Vienna Journal of International Constitutional Law, Africa Journal of Comparative Constitutional Law, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, Human Rights Review, and a monograph on Media Law in Ethiopia with Kluwer Law International. Previously, Berihun has been a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Göttingen; a Visiting Professor at Central European University; a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia Law School, Center for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity; a Global Teaching Fellow at the University of Yangon and a Lecturer at Jigjiga University Law School. He received his S.J.D/Ph.D and LL.M from Central European University, LL.M from Addis Ababa University, and LL.B from Haramaya University. Berihun has received several awards and fellowships including the prestigious fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Armi Bayot

Armi Bayot is a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is undertaking research on intrastate peace agreements as negotiated settlements. She was legal counsel to the government peace panel in talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from 2010-2016, where she was deeply involved in the drafting and negotiation of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). From 2010 to 2017, she was an Associate Solicitor at the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) of the Republic of the Philippines, where her fields of practice include indigenous peoples’ rights law, administrative law, family law, and criminal appeals.  She then worked at the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR), first serving as Division Chief of the Center for Crisis, Conflict, and Humanitarian Protection and later as the Deputy Coordinator of the National Task Force Against Extrajudicial Killings. She was also the founding Head of the CHR’s Analysis Unit. She obtained her Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree (with Distinction) from King’s College London as a Chevening scholar. She was awarded the Dickson Poon School of Law Prize in Transnational Law in 2015, and she was the sole winner of the Georg Schwarzenberger Prize in 2016.

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo

Juliano Zaiden Benvindo is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Brasília (UnB), Head of the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies at UnB, and a Research Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He holds a Ph.D. in Public Law from Humboldt University of Berlin and UnB (2009), and Master in Legal Philosopy from UnB (2005). He is an Alexander von Humbodt/CAPES Senior Fellow at the Max-Planck for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (2019, with a new research period scheduled for 2022), and was a DAAD/CAPES Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow at the Center of European Law and Politics of the University of Bremen, Germany (2013-2014). His scholarship has mostly focused on interconnections between comparative constitutional law and comparative politics and development, with a focus on Latin America, as well as on constitutional theory. He is the author of the book s Rule of Law in Brazil  (Hart, forthcoming 2021), On the Limits of Constitutional Adjudication: Deconstructing Balancing and Judicial Activism (Springer, 2010,) and Legal Rationality and Normative Validity: From Metaphysics to Democratic Reflection(Argvmentvm, 2008, in Portuguese), and co-editor, with Richard Albert and Carlos Bernal, of the book Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America (Hart, 2019). His scholarship has also appeared in several distinguished journals and edited books. He has been a regular contributor to I-CONNect since 2014.

Sofia Ranchordas

Sofia Ranchordas is Professor of European and Comparative Public and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), Faculty of Law and an Affiliated Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He received her PhD from Tilburg University and the University of Antwerp in 2014. She occupied previous teaching and research positions at Tilburg University, Leiden University, and the Information Society Project (Resident Fellow). Her research interests lie at the intersection of constitutional and administrative law and law and technology. She conducts interdisciplinary and comparative legal research on public law and technology, smart cities, digital exclusion, quality of regulation, and digital government. She has published four books (Hart, Edward Elgar, Routledge) and a number of international peer-reviewed and US law journal articles. Sofia Ranchordas speaks regularly at international conferences, is a member of different research communities, and consults for governments and international institutions. She teaches courses on Dutch and comparative administrative law, law and technology, and digital government.She is the recipient of several national and international grants.

Andrea Scoseria Katz

Andrea Scoseria Katz is a comparative legal historian whose work explores the development of presidential power in the Americas. Currently, she is spending the year in residence at NYU School of Law as a Golieb Fellow in Legal History. In the fall, she will be joining Washington University School of Law as an Associate Professor. Andrea’s doctoral thesis, The President in His Labyrinth: Checks and Balances in the New Pan-American Presidentialism, uses Latin America as a foil for the U.S. in exploring problems of presidential power, and is under revision for publication as a book manuscript. Andrea’s published or forthcoming work explores questions of constitutional design in Brazil, Colombia, and Uruguay. She also specializes in American constitutional thought in the Progressive Era (1890-1920). Andrea has previously held clerkships at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, and at the District of Massachusetts (Senior District Judge Michael A. Ponsor). She holds a J.D. (2016) from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University (2016).

Alexander Hudson

Alexander Hudson is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (Göttingen, Germany), in the fellow group for Comparative Constitutionalism. He earned a PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin in 2018. The majority of his current research deals with realisations of constituent power in some form, including work on constitution drafting and amendment. He is the author of The Veil of Participation: Citizens and Political Parties in Constitution-Making Processes (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). He also has ongoing research projects on public participation in lawmaking, constitutional referendums, and the diffusion of language in national constitutions. His earlier work includes research on law and courts in Canada and Brazil. He has taught courses at the University of Texas at Austin and the Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, and worked for the Comparative Constitutions Project.

Yvonne Tew

Yvonne Tew is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, with expertise in constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and comparative law and religion. She is the author of Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts (forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2020). Her scholarship has appeared in several law journals including the Virginia Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, American Journal of Comparative Law, Cambridge Law Journal, and Washington International Law Journal, as well as in book collections from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Edward Elgar Publishing. Professor Tew holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. She earned her first law degree from the University of Cambridge. Before joining the Georgetown Law faculty, she was an Associate-in-Law Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Columbia Law School and a Hauser Global Fellow at the New York University School of Law.

Dian A H Shah

Dian A H Shah is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. She completed her LL.M and S.J.D degrees at Duke University Law School, and prior to that she graduated with an LL.B from Warwick University. Her research interests span the fields of constitutional history, comparative constitutional law, and human rights, and her work focuses on the interaction of law, religion, and politics in plural and divided societies. Dian is the author of Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka (CUP 2017) and the co-editor of a volume on Law and Society in Malaysia: Pluralism, Religion and Ethnicity (Routledge 2018). She serves as the Deputy Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (AsJCL) and the Editor of the AsJCL’s Special Issue on ‘Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia’ (forthcoming, December 2018).

William Partlett

William Partlett is an Associate Professor at Melbourne Law School. He writes and teaches in the field of public law. Partlett’s research takes a historical and comparative approach to questions of public law. He is currently working on two projects.  One compares how historical arguments about public authority and identity shape constitutionalism in Russia and the other fourteen countries of post-Soviet Eurasia. The other examines the migration of constitutional ideas and institutions from post-Soviet Eurasia to Eastern Europe and Asia.

Before coming to Melbourne, Professor Partlett was an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Columbia University Law School, and a Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Professor Partlett holds a JD from Stanford Law School as well as a DPhil in Soviet History and MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford (where he was a Clarendon Scholar). He also holds a bachelors degree in International Affairs and Public Policy from Princeton University and speaks Russian.

Paola Bergallo

Paola Bergallo is a Professor of Law at Universidad Di Tella in Buenos Aires. She is a member of CONICET (Argentina’s Science Foundation) and a global fellow in the Center on Law and Social Transformation in Bergen. She teaches Constitutional Rights and Law and Society as well as research seminars on law and policies about gender, access to justice, food, and health rights. She holds a Doctorate and a Master’s Degree from Stanford Law School, an LL.M. from Columbia University, and an LL.B. from Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Professor Bergallo has been involved in multiple education initiatives seeking to build modern legal capacities for Latin America. She co-founded a Law Program at Universidad de San Andrés. She has taught courses in different parts of her country, Latin America, and Spain. She has compiled several volumes, has edited Di Tella’s Law Review, and has co-directed the Collection Derecho & Política at Siglo XXI Editores. She is a founder of the Red Alas, a network of law professors promoting gender and sexuality matters in legal education, and a member of SELA, a regional Seminar in Constitutional Theory headed by Yale Law School. Professor Bergallo has headed research projects on human rights matters for the Ministry of Health, the Nordic Trust Fund, the Ford Foundation, IDRC, UNFPA, and PAHO, mentoring and training several younger scholars as part of those ventures. She has cooperated pro bono with local teams at human rights NGOs, the National Program on Reproductive Health, feminist members of the House of Representatives, and the Gender Office of the Supreme Court.

Jill Goldenziel

Jill Goldenziel (@JillGoldenziel) is Associate Professor of International Law and International Relations at Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College, where she teaches International Law, the Law of War, and National Security to mid-career U.S. and foreign armed services members studying for a Master’s in Military Studies.  She is also an Affiliated Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania’s Fox Leadership International program. Professor Goldenziel’s scholarship focuses on international law, comparative law, constitutional law, human rights, refugees and migration, and law and religion.  Her current projects include a book on how to solve the migration and refugee crisis and several articles on the use of law as a weapon of war.  Since 2016, Professor Goldenziel has participated in High-Level Meetings on the UN Global Compact on Migration, including speaking before 164 UN Member-States at the Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact, speaking at the 2018 Inter-Parliamentary Union/UN Annual Inter-Parliamentary Hearings, and submitting draft language for the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Global Compact on Migration. She is actively involved in the UN’s follow-up and implementation on the Global Compact.

Professor Goldenziel’s academic work has been published in the American Journal of International Law, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Virginia Journal of International Law, the Arizona State Law Journal, Berkeley Journal of International Law, and elsewhere. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, the L.A. Times, NPR, Public Radio International, and in other media. She has clerked for Judge Thomas Buergenthal (Ret.,International Court of Justice) and Professor William (Rusty) Park on tribunals of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID/CIADI/CIRDI). She co-chairs the American Society of International Law’s Human Rights Interest Group and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. More information about Professor Goldenziel and links to her work can be found on her website.

Jaclyn L. Neo

Jaclyn L. Neo is an Assistant Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She specializes in constitutional law and human rights. She was a recipient of two graduate scholarships from NUS under which she completed her Masters of Law (LL.M.) and Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) at Yale Law School. Jaclyn is an Executive Committee member of the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies and was also recently appointed to the editorial boards of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Asian Yearbook of International Law. Jaclyn has delivered papers and lectures by invitation at numerous universities the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Chile, and Vietnam. She was recently a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow with the ARC Laureate Project in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School. Jaclyn is the sole editor of a recently published volume on Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017). Her articles have been published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Human Rights Quarterly, and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. Her article on domestic incorporation of international human rights law in a dualist state won the Asian Yearbook of International Law’s DILA International Law Prize. She was also recently awarded the 2016 SHAPE-SEA Research Award in recognition of her research on human rights, especially religious freedom, in Southeast Asia.

James Fowkes

James Fowkes is Professor of Foreign and International Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany. He holds law degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Yale Law School, and was law clerk at the South African Constitutional Court in 2008. He is the author of Building the Constitution: The Practice of Constitutional Interpretation in post-Apartheid South Africa (CUP, 2016) and, with Susan Rose-Ackerman and Stefanie Egidy, Due Process of Lawmaking: The United States, South Africa, Germany, and the European Union (CUP, 2015). James currently serves on the editorial boards of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law and the journal Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ): Law and Politics in Africa, Asia & Latin America. He has held fellowships and taught on three continents, most recently as a Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa. His research interests, unwisely, tend be to be about comparative law defined as broadly as possible, and has been known both to occasionally speak in German and occasionally be quiet in English.

Francisca Pou Giménez

Francisca Pou Giménez teaches Constitutional Law at ITAM in Mexico City. She joined ITAM in 2011, after clerking several years at the Mexican Supreme Court. She is the editor of Isonomía, a peer-review legal theory journal, and serves on the board of several other academic journals in Latin America. She is also on the Board of Directors of SELA, a long-standing north-south academic enterprise launched two decades ago by the Yale Law School and more than twenty Latin American universities which has played a crucial role in the generation of new legal thinking and teaching in the region. She holds a Doctorate and a Master’s Degree from the Yale Law School and a Law Degree and a Doctoral Research Certification in Public Law from Pompeu Fabra University in Spain.

Professor Pou’s scholarship revolves around a familiar trilogy: courts, constitutions and rights. She has published articles and book chapters exploring four main areas: constitutional amendment and other modalities of constitutional change; Mexican constitutionalism in comparative perspective; judicial review and courts, with special interest for comparative institutional design and the relation between design and performance; and fundamental rights, particularly equality, freedom of speech, sexual and reproductive rights (she belongs to Red Alas), language rights, and the issues raised  by the opening of constitutions to international human rights law. She has been invited to teach in Colombia, Argentina, Belarus and Italy, and is a regular speaker in academic events in Latin America. She tries to save some time for translation, an activity that she loves. She has translated into Spanish constitutional scholarship by Jamal Greene, Mitch Berman and Owen Fiss, and is now kept entertained by Rose-Ackerman and Palifka’s magna opera on corruption and government.

Renáta Uitz

Renáta Uitz is professor of comparative constitutional law at Central European University (CEU). She started teaching at CEU in 2001, and became chair of the Comparative Constitutional Law program in 2007. Her teaching covers subjects in comparative constitutional law in Europe and North America, and human rights protection with special emphasis on the enforcement of constitutional rights and on issues of bodily privacy and sexuality. Theories and practices of good government in and after transition, questions of personal autonomy and equality, including religious liberty and LGBT rights, are at the center of her research interests. She is the author of Constitutions, Courts and History (2004) and Freedom of Religion in European Constitutional and International Case Law (2007). More recently she edited Arguments that Work: Strategies, Contexts and Limits in Constitutional Law (2013); Religion in the Public Square: Perspectives on Secularism (2014); Freedom and Its Enemies: The Tragedy of Liberty (2015).

Aslı Bâli

Aslı Bâli is Director of the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law where she teaches in the International and Comparative Law Program. Recent work includes “Shifting into Reverse: Turkish Constitutionalism Under the AKP” (Theory & Event, 2016); “Constitutional Design Without Constitutional Moments: Lessons from Religiously Divided Societies” (Cornell International Law Journal 2016); and “The Wrong Kind of Intervention in Syria,” in The United Nations and the Arabs (Vijay Prashad and Karim Makdisi, eds., OUP 2016). She is also co-editor, with Hanna Lerner, of the forthcoming volume Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy (CUP 2017). Bâli’s scholarship has also appeared in the American Journal of International Law Unbound, International Journal of Constitutional Law, UCLA Law Review, Yale Journal of International Law, Virginia Journal of International Law, and Studies in Law, Politics and Society. She currently serves as co-chair of the Advisory Committee for Human Rights Watch-Middle East.

Dr. Menaka Guruswamy

Dr. Menaka Guruswamy practices law at the Supreme Court of India. She is presently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin. Among other work, she successfully represented a group of retired civil servants in a large constitutional case that sought reform of public administration and the bureaucracy in the country (TSR Subramanium and Ors v. Union of India and Ors), has successfully defended federal legislation that mandates that all private schools dmit disadvantaged children (the Right to Education Act), and litigated successfully against Salwa Judum—state sponsored vigilante groups in Chhattisgarh. She was appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court in a case concerning extra-judicial killings in Manipur. Her areas of legal practice include Criminal Law, Commercial Law and Constitutional Law. Previously, Dr. Guruswamy worked at the Office of the Attorney General of India. Aside from her private law practice, she has also represented the Union of India, and State of Delhi at the Supreme Court of India. She has also practiced law in New York, as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Dr. Guruswamy was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, a Gammon Fellow at Harvard Law School, and a gold medalist from the National Law School of India. She has law degrees from all three schools. Her doctorate from Oxford University is on Constitution-making in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. She has been Visiting Faculty at Yale Law School, Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law. Her most recent publications include essays on “Access to Justice- The Jurisprudence and Self Perception of the Supreme Court of India” (co-author), in Constitutionalism of the Global South (Daniel Bonilla, ed., CUP 2013) and “Crafting Constitutional Values: An Essay on the Supreme Court of India,” in An Inquiry into the Existence of Global Values (Dennis Davis et al., eds., Hart Publishing 2015). She is admitted to the Bar in New York and in Delhi.

Javier Couso

Javier Couso is a Professor of Law and Social Sciences at Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). His work focuses on comparative law and courts, with a focus on the interplay between constitutionalism, the rule of law, and legal cultures in new democracies. He is the author of dozens of academic articles and books, including Constitutional Law in Chile (Wolters Kluwer 2011), and (with Alexandra Huneeus and Rachel Sieder as co-editors) Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America (CUP 2010). Over the last decade, he has been a visiting professor at several academic institutions worldwide, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2006-2007); Leiden University (2012); Melbourne University (2012 & 2014); Bocconi University (2013); and the University of California-Berkeley (2016). Furthermore, he was the holder of the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity, at Utrecht University (2014-2016).

Prof. Couso is in the editorial board of a number of academic journals, such as the Journal of Law and Courts; Law and Policy; International Journal of Law in Context; Constitutional Court Review; and Griffith Law Review. Finally, he is currently an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, after having served on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Constitutional Law and in the Board of Trustees the Law and Society Association.

Dr. Tom Gerald Daly

Dr. Tom Gerald Daly is Associate Director at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and a consultant on public law, human rights, and democracy-building. Currently overseeing a Council of Europe project on strengthening judicial ethics in Turkey, he has previously clerked for the Chief Justice of Ireland, has worked at the Global Justice Academy and Judicial Studies Institute, and as a consultant on various Council of Europe, European Union, International IDEA, and Irish government projects. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh and law degrees from the Honorable Society of King’s Inns and the European University Institute (EUI), Florence.

Tom’s research centers on the connections between law, democracy-building, and democratic decay, with a particular focus on the intersection between national, transnational, and international law and policy. Forthcoming publications include a monograph with Cambridge University Press (The Alchemists: Questioning Our Faith in Courts as Democracy-Builders), an introductory article on the subject of the book in Global Constitutionalism, and a co-edited collection with Palgrave MacMillan, titled Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Courts, Institutions, and Rights. His new research project concerns the role of public law in countering democratic decay worldwide. He has been an invited speaker at events in the US, Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East, and has presented and lectured at a wide range of institutions worldwide. He tweets @DemocracyTalk.