Voting is now open for the 2023 Book of the Year! Awarded by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, the Prize is given to the most important book in constitutional studies published this calendar year. 
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An Expert Council has nominated 30 books for the Prize. You are now invited to vote in multiple rounds that will culminate in the announcement of the Book of the Year on December 18, 2023.
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My warmest thanks to the members of the Expert Council:

Antonia Baraggia | Italy
Berihun Gebeye | Ethiopia
Masahiko Kinoshita | Japan
Virginie Kuoch | France
Emilio Meyer | Brazil
Jaime Olaiz-González | Mexico
Marieta Safta | Romania

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Please vote here!

David Landau is my guest in the inaugural episode of ConstitutionWorld, an interview series featuring thinkers and doers in constitutionalism. The subject of my discussion with David is Abusive Constitutionalism, his pioneering paper--the most influential of the last decade. Please watch and enjoy! And please send me recommendations for persons I should interview next!

In 1928, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that women do not qualify as "persons" under the Constitution. Earlier this month – 95 years after that ruling – women became a majority on the Court for the first time. With the appointment of Justice Mary Moreau, 5 out of 9 justices are now women. Progress takes time, but it comes.

Authors in law and political science are invited to present their books at our upcoming conference “Books and BBQ,” here at the University of Texas at Austin on May 16-18, 2024. Attendees will be treated to Austin’s best BBQ. You are welcome to register a book panel or to register as an observer. All are welcome to join us here in Austin!

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has released its 2022-23 annual report. The report covers the Court's case law, financial health, international engagements, and internal operations. The report also covers the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Here are some statistics that tell the story of the life of the Court over the previous year.

The new edition of the International Review of Constitutional Reform is now published in open access. The 2022 IRCR is a global collaboration of 100+ judges and scholars, featuring 80+ country reports on constitutional reform around the world. Thank you to our outstanding editorial team: my co-editor President Luís Roberto Barroso, and our associate editors Elisa Amorim Boaventura, Maria Letícia Borges, Bruno Santos Cunha, Matheus de Souza Depieri, Júlia Quintão Frade, and David Sobreira. And congratulations to all contributors for their outstanding reports! 

The inaugural issue of the new French Yearbook of Public Law is now published in open access. The focus of this first issue is Climate Change and Public Law. Under the leadership of Jean-Bernard Auby, Philippe Cossalter, Dominique Custos and Giacinto della Cananea, the FYPL has three main goals: (1) to expose English readers to French public law debates; (2) to expose France to scholarly developments and ideas from abroad; and (3) to foster cross-national exchange. These are worthy aims. I am pleased to be a member of the FYPL's International Scientific Council.

Here are the 30 nominees for 2023 Book of the Year, as selected by the Expert Council. Voting is now open!

Meet the newest experts in the law & politics of constitutional reform: my outstanding master's students at l'Université Paris Panthéon-Assas. Students have learned about key subjects in constitutional change, including constitutional replacement by constitutional amendment, judicial nullification of constitutional reform, and the role of the people in constitution-making. And I have learned a great deal from each of them about the tradition of popular constitutionalism in France.