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Richard Albert
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On my Bookshelf
In “Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia,” a group of scholars come together under the editorial leadership of Melissa Crouch to ring the alarm on rising threats to rights and the rule of law in the world's third-largest democracy.
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Call for Contributors
Global Review of Constitutional Law
Would you like to join our team for the 2022 edition of the “The Global Review of Constitutional Law,” a book published annually, featuring country reports on constitutional law developments over the past year? Details here.
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The Global Review is published in open access thanks to the generosity of the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Previous editions of the Global Review are available here for free:
I have been experimenting with ChatGPT. It is remarkable!
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Now Available in Open Access
A few years ago, I published a paper with two of my classmates from the University of Oxford, Farrah Ahmed and Adam Perry. After a long embargo, our paper on “Enforcing Constitutional Conventions” is finally available in open access. We make the case for a limited judicial role to enforce constitutional conventions. It was a joy to co-author this paper with my classmates!
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First Stop: BBQ!
Last week, I hosted Carlos Bernal here at the University of Texas at Austin. Carlos is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of Colombia and currently a Commissioner on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He gave a paper in our Constitutional Studies Luncheon series. And he visited my seminar on “Constitutional Amendments in the United States and the World” (photo above). But the very first item on our agenda when he landed in Austin was … BBQ! Here we are at County Line Restaurant (photo below).
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