This essay provides an overview of the worldwide phenomenon of constitutional environmental rights. Since the...

Throughout its history, the Supreme Court has assumed that dignity is relevant to constitutional interpretation,...

This is a foreword to a compendium of writings by our lost friend and colleague,...

In 2006, the Supreme Court decided Garcetti v Ceballos, 547 U.S. 410 (2006), which significantly...

This article examines the extent to which constitutionally embedded fundamental environmental rights have met the...

Truth commissions have become so fashionable in times of transition that one can readily recognize...

Understanding reconciliation in times of political transition raises fundamental and ultimately unanswerable questions about the...

The South African experience with reparations is an important object lesson for any major effort...

In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which almost a million people...

When nations transition from oppressive and lawless regimes to democratic ones they face myriad challenges....

In the 1960s, the United States Supreme Court entered the political thicket of voting rights...

Since 1973, the Supreme Court has based the right to abortion on a right to...

A defamation is a statement that "tends so to harm the reputation of another as...

As nations struggling to heal wounds of civil war and atrocity turn toward the model...

At a broad level, perhaps the most noticeable trend in Latin American constitutional law is...

While scholars may disagree as to the scope and depth of the indivisibility of rights,...