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How to Lose a Constitutional Democracy

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 65, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 642

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 20 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2017

Aziz Z. Huq and Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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The Bound Executive: Emergency Powers During the Pandemic

Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2020-52, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 747

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 26 May 2020 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022

Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

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When to Overthrow Your Government: The Right to Resist in the World's Constitutions

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 60, No. 5, 2013, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2012-46, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 406

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 07 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2013

Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez and Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

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Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics

Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 657, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 689

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 09 Oct 2018

Taisu Zhang and Tom Ginsburg

Yale University - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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How Does International Law Work: What Empirical Research Shows

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF EMPIRICAL LEGAL STUDIES, eds., Peter Cane & Herbert Kritzer, 2010, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-54

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2010

Tom Ginsburg and Gregory Shaffer

University of Chicago Law School and University of California, Irvine School of Law

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Why Do Countries Adopt Constitutional Review?

Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Forthcoming, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2013-29

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2013

Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

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The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship

American Journal of International Law, Vol. 106, p. 1, January 2012, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-09

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2014

Gregory Shaffer and Tom Ginsburg

University of California, Irvine School of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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The Endurance of National Constitutions

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The Endurance of National Constitutions

Cambridge University Press, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 511

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2010

Tom Ginsburg, James Melton and Zachary Elkins

University of Chicago Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Texas, Austin

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The Endurance of National Constitutions

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Dec 2012

Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins and James Melton

University of Chicago Law School, University of Texas, Austin and Central Michigan University - College of Business Administration

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Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?

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Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?

Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, Vol. 5, No. 5, 2009

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2011

Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins and Justin Blount

University of Chicago Law School, University of Texas, Austin and University of Illinois at Chicago

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Does the Process of Constitution-Making Matter?

Posted: 04 Jun 2010

Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins and Justin Blount

University of Chicago Law School, University of Texas, Austin and University of Illinois at Chicago

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Guarding the Guardians: Judicial Councils and Judicial Independence

American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 444, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 250, Center on Law and Globalization Research Paper No. 09-05

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 06 May 2009

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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International Substitutes for Domestic Institutions: Bilateral Investment Treaties and Governance

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 25, 2005, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE06-027

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jul 2006

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Economic Analysis and Comparative Law

CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO COMPARATIVE LAW, Mauro Bussani, Ugo Mattei, eds., Forthcoming , U Illinois Law & Economics Research, No. LE09-034

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Dec 2009

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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Introduction: Comparative Constitutional Law

COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 362

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2011

Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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Confucian Constitutionalism: Globalization and Judicial Review in Korea and Taiwan

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 00-03

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Nov 2001

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Global Spread of Constitutional Review

Oxford Handbook of Law and Politics (Keith Whittington and Daniel Keleman, eds., 2008).

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Adjudicating in Anarchy: An Expressive Theory of International Dispute Resolution

U Illinois Law & Econ. Research Paper No. LE03-013; Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 291

Number of pages: 102 Posted: 28 Jan 2004

Tom Ginsburg and Richard H. McAdams

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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Leximetrics: Why the Same Laws are Longer in Some Countries than Others

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE03-012

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Oct 2003

Robert D. Cooter and Tom Ginsburg

University of California, Berkeley - School of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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An Economic Interpretation of the Pashtunwalli

University of Chicago Legal Forum, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 548

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2011

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Written Constitutions and the Administrative State: On the Constitutional Character of Administrative Law

COMPARATIVE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Peter Lindseth, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 31

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2010

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Economic Analysis and the Design of Constitutional Courts

U Illinois Law and Economics Working Paper No. 00-25

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 May 2001

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Unreluctant Litigant? An Empirical Analysis of Japan's Turn to Litigation

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE04-009

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Nov 2004

Glenn P. Hoetker and Tom Ginsburg

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Business Administration and University of Chicago Law School

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Empirical Work in International Law: A Bibliographical Essay

Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-32

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2012

Gregory Shaffer and Tom Ginsburg

University of California, Irvine School of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes

Pp. 1-20 in Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, edited by Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser (Cambridge University Press, 2014), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 468

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2014

Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser

University of Chicago Law School and ITAM

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Latin American Presidentialism in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Texas Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 7, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 361

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2011

Jose Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg

Texas A&M University, University of Texas, Austin and University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Interpretation in Law-Making: China's Invisible Constitutional Enforcement Mechanism

American Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Dec 2014

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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International Judicial Lawmaking

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE05-006

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 30 Mar 2005

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Islamization and Human Rights: The Surprising Origin and Spread of Islamic Supremacy in Constitutions

Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 477

Number of pages: 88 Posted: 21 May 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2014

Dawood I. Ahmed and Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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'We the Peoples': The Global Origins of Constitutional Preambles

George Washington International Law Review, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 664, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 447

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 29 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2014

Tom Ginsburg, Nick Foti and Daniel Rockmore

University of Chicago Law School, University of Washington - Department of Statistics and Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics

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Reputation, Information and the Organization of the Judiciary

Journal of Comparative Law, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 503

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Dec 2009

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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On the Evasion of Executive Term Limits

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 52, p. 1807, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 328

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 29 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 16 May 2011

Tom Ginsburg, James Melton and Zachary Elkins

University of Chicago Law School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Texas, Austin

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Constitutional Endurance

COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, p. 112, Tom Ginsburg and Rosalind Dixon, eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Aug 2011

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Deciding Not to Decide: Deferral in Constitutional Design

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 9, Nos. 3/4, 2011, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 389

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Jun 2012

Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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On the Interpretability of Law: Lessons from the Decoding of National Constitutions

British Journal of Political Science, FirstViewArticle, December 2012, University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 624

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Dec 2012

James Melton, Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and Kalev Leetaru

University College London - School of Public Policy, University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School and University of Illinois

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Getting to Rights: Treaty Ratification, Constitutional Convergence, and Human Rights Practice

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 54, No. 1, 2013, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 434

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Jul 2013

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and Beth A. Simmons

University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School and University of Pennsylvania

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Locking in Democracy: Constitutions, Commitment, and International Law

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE06-14, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, Vol. 38, No. 4, 2006

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Jun 2006

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Classics in Comparative Law: An Introduction

Tom Ginsburg, Pier Giuseppe Monateri and Francesco Parisi (eds.), Classics in Comparative Law (3 volumes), Edward Elgar (2014), Forthcoming, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-09

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 18 Mar 2014

Tom Ginsburg, P. G. Monateri, P. G. Monateri and Francesco Parisi

University of Chicago Law School, University of Turin - Faculty of LawSciencesPo, Ecole de Droit and University of Minnesota - Law School

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The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Impeachment

88 University of Chicago Law Review (Forthcoming), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 731

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 09 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2020

Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq and David Landau

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago - Law School and Florida State University - College of Law

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Libertarian Paternalism, Path Dependence, and Temporary Law

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 81, pp. 291-359 (2014), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 645, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 431

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 19 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2016

Tom Ginsburg, Jonathan S. Masur and Richard H. McAdams

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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Judicial Independence in East Asia: Implications for China

JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE IN CHINA, Randall Peerenboom, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 295

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2010

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Public Choice and Constitutional Design

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 451, Elgar Handbook in Public Choice and Public Law, 2009, Center on Law and Globalization Research, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Jan 2009

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Commitment and Diffusion: How and Why National Constitutions Incorporate International Law

University of Illinois Law Review, No. 1, 2008, U. of St. Gallen Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2007-07

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Jul 2007

Svitlana Chernykh, Tom Ginsburg and Zachary Elkins

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Political Science, University of Chicago Law School and University of Texas, Austin

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The Constitutional Court and the Judicialization of Korean Politics

NEW COURTS IN ASIA, Andrew Harding, et al eds., Routledge, 2010

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Dec 2009

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Clash of Commitments at the International Criminal Court

Chicago Journal of International Law, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 251, Center on Law and Globalization Research Paper No. 09-03

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 19 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 06 May 2009

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Subconstitutionalism

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 62, 2010

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg and Eric A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago - Law School

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Comparative Administrative Procedure: Evidence from Northeast Asia

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. 00-06

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Jan 2001

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Specificity, Unwritten Understandings and Constitutional Agreement

CONSTITUTIONAL TOPOGRAPHY: VALUES AND CONSITUTIONS, A. Sajo and R. Uitz, eds., Eleven International Publishing, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 330

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 11 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2010

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Law and the Liberal Transformation of the Northeast Asian Legal Complex in Korea and Taiwan

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 06-03

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 May 2006

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Public International Law and Economics Symposium Introduction

Published in: Illinois Law Review (Symposium Issue on International Law and Economics) (2008) 1., U. of St. Gallen Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2007-06

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 10 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2014

Anne van Aaken, Anne van Aaken, Tom Ginsburg and Christoph Engel

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective GoodsUniversity of Hamburg, Law School, University of Chicago Law School and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

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The Teaching/Research Tradeoff in Law: Data from the Right Tail

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 674

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 Feb 2014

Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. Miles

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago - Law School

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Administrative Law and the Judicial Control of Agents in Authoritarian Regimes

THE POLITICS OF COURTS IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES, Tom Ginsburg and Tamir Moustafa, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2008

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Feb 2012

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Imagining a World Without the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Jul 2014

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton

University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School and University College London - School of Public Policy

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Building Reputation in Constitutional Courts: Party and Judicial Politics

Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2012, Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS11-15

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2011

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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Political Constraints on International Courts

Chap. 22 (pp. 483-502) in The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication, Oxford University Press, 2013, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 453

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Dec 2013

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul,...: Constitution Making in Occupied States

William & Mary Law Review, Forthcoming, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 07-07

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Oct 2007

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton

University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism

British Journal of Political Science, Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 668, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 450

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Dec 2013

Jose Antonio Cheibub, Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg

Texas A&M University, University of Texas, Austin and University of Chicago Law School

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Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter?

University of Chicago Institute for Law & Economics Olin Research Paper No. 612, Journal of Law and Courts, Vol. 2, pp. 187-217, Fall 2014

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2014

James Melton and Tom Ginsburg

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Afterlife: The Continuing Impact of Thailand's Postpolitical Constitution

International Journal of Constitutional Law, January 2009, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 252, Center on Law and Globalization Research Paper No. 09-04

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Lessons for Democratic Transitions: Case Studies from Asia

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 07-08, ORBIS: A Journal of World Affairs, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Oct 2007

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Judicial Audiences and Reputation: Perspectives from Comparative Law

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Forthcoming, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE09-033

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 25 Nov 2009

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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Empiricism and the Rising Incidence of Coauthorship in Law

University of Illinois Law Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg and Thomas J. Miles

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago - Law School

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Eastphalia as a Return to Westphalia

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 292

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 19 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2010

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Does the Constitutional Amendment Rule Matter at All? Amendment Cultures and the Challenges of Measuring Amendment Difficulty

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 682, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 472

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 May 2014 Last Revised: 07 May 2014

Tom Ginsburg and James Melton

University of Chicago Law School and University College London - School of Public Policy

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Constitutional Choices in Taiwan: Implications of Global Trends

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 06-01

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Jan 2006

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Pitfalls of Measuring the Rule of Law

Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, Vol. 3, No. 2, p. 269, September 2011

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 17 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2012

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Comparative Law and Economics of Judicial Councils

Berkley Journal of International Law (BJIL), 2008, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-036

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Nov 2008

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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Lawrence Friedman's Comparative Law

LAW, SOCIETY AND HISTORY: ESSAYS ON THEMES IN THE LEGAL HISTORY AND LEGAL SOCIOLOGY OF LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN, Robert Gordon, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 293

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2010

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Law of Democratic Disqualification

California Law Review, Vol. 111, 2023, FSU College of Law, Public Law Research Paper Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 791

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2022

Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z. Huq and David Landau

University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago - Law School and Florida State University - College of Law

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The Citizen as Founder: Public Participation in Constitutional Approval

Temple Law Review, Vol. 81, 2008

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 14 Aug 2011

Tom Ginsburg, Zachary Elkins and Justin Blount

University of Chicago Law School, University of Texas, Austin and University of Illinois at Chicago

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The Cultural Evolution of National Constitutions

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Mar 2016

Daniel Rockmore, Chen Fang, Nick Foti, Tom Ginsburg and David Krakauer

Dartmouth College - Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, University of Washington - Department of Statistics, University of Chicago Law School and Santa Fe Institute

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The Warren Court in East Asia: An Essay in Comparative Law

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 04-12

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 03 May 2004

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Courts and New Democracies: Recent Works

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 388

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 16 Jun 2012

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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From Catalonia to California: Secession in Constitutional Law

Alabama Law Review, 2019, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2019-15

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2019

Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg

University of Chicago Law School and University of Virginia School of Law

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Hybrid Judicial Career Structures: Reputation v. Legal Tradition

The Journal of Legal Analysis, 2011

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 05 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2014

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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Studying Japanese Law Because It's There

American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 58, 2010, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 294

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2010

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Book Review - Democracy, Markets and Doomsaying: Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE04-002

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 May 2004

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Market for Elite Law Firm Associates

Florida State University Law Review, Vol. 31, 2004, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE07-038

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 21 Nov 2007

Tom Ginsburg and Jeffrey A. Wolf

University of Chicago Law School and University of Washington

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Judicial Roles in Nonjudicial Functions

Washington University Global Studies Law Review, Vol. 12, pp. 755-782, 2013, Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-24, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 676, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 460

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 17 Feb 2014

Nuno Garoupa and Tom Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutionalism: East Asian Antecedents

Chicago-Kent Law Review, 2013

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Dec 2012

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Ancillary Powers of Constitutional Courts

Texas Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 7, 2009

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Dec 2012

Tom Ginsburg and Zachary Elkins

University of Chicago Law School and University of Texas, Austin

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Odious Debt, Odious Credit, Economic Development, and Democratization

U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE07-014

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 23 Apr 2007

Tom Ginsburg and Thomas S. Ulen

University of Chicago Law School and University of Illinois College of Law

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Constitution-Making As Transnational Legal Ordering

Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order. (2019). In G. Shaffer, T. Ginsburg, & T. Halliday (Eds.), Constitution-Making and Transnational Legal Order (Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy, p. I). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. , UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2019-35

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Jul 2019

Tom Ginsburg, Terence C. Halliday and Gregory Shaffer

University of Chicago Law School, American Bar Foundation and University of California, Irvine School of Law

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Evidentiary Privileges in International Arbitration

International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 2 (April 2001), pp. 345-385, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 656

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 24 Oct 2013

Tom Ginsburg and Richard Mosk

University of Chicago Law School and Justice, California Court of Appeal

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The Dejudicialization of International Politics?

International Studies Quarterly, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Dec 2018

Daniel Abebe and Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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The South African Constitutional Court and Socio-Economic Rights as 'Insurance Swaps'

Constitutional Court Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2011, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 650, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 436

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2013

Rosalind Dixon and Tom Ginsburg

University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Faculty of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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[Dis-]Informing the People's Discretion: Judicial Deference Under the National Security Exemption of the Freedom of Information Act

Administrative Law Review, Vol. 64, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 516

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 02 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2017

Susan Nevelow Mart and Tom Ginsburg

University of Colorado Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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Irrational War and Constitutional Design: A Reply to Professors Nzelibe and Yoo

Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 06-13

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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East Asian Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective

Albert H.Y. Chen, ed. Constitutionalism in Asian in the Early 21st Century Cambridge University Press, 2014

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Oct 2016

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Courts vs. Autocrats in Post - Communist Europe

This is a draft version of an essay that appears in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of Democracy”

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 May 2016

Bojan Bugaric, Bojan Bugaric and Tom Ginsburg

University of Sheffield, Department of LawUniversity of Sheffield, Department of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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The Future of Liberal Democracy in the International Legal Order

Is the International Legal Order Unraveling? David L. Sloss ed., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming , U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 778

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2021

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Judicialization of Japanese Politics?

In The Japanese Legal System: An Era of Transition, edited by Harry Scheiber and Tom Ginsburg (2013).

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2013

Tom Ginsburg and Tokujin Matsudaira

University of Chicago Law School and Teikyo University

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The Arbitrator as Agent: Why Deferential Review is Not Always Pro-Arbitration

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 4, 2010, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 502

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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92.

Constitutional Knowledge

Forthcoming, KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, 2018

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 23 Aug 2018

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Advice and Transnational Legal Order

UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law [Vol. 2: 5-32]

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 May 2017 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2020

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Eastphalia and Asian Regionalism

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 44, 2011, Center on Law and Globalization Research Paper No. 11-01

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Sep 2011

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Autocracies

University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 3419727

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Jul 2019

Mehdi Shadmehr, Raphael Boleslavsky and Tom Ginsburg

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Public Policy, University of Miami - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics and University of Chicago Law School

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The Politics of Transparency in Japanese Administrative Law

Japanese Law in Transition (Daniel Foote, ed., University of Washington Press, 2008).

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 28 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Social Science Approach to International Law

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2021

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 25 Jun 2021

Daniel Abebe, Adam Chilton and Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago - Law School, University of Chicago - Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Courts in East Asia: Understanding Variation

3 Journal of Comparative Law 80 (2008)

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Circles of Trust: A Proposal for Better Migrant Screening

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 817

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2017

Tom Ginsburg and Alberto Simpser

University of Chicago Law School and ITAM

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International Commercial Arbitration in Asia, 3rd Edition

Juris Publishers. iii-xlvi. 1-634. , University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2013/003

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2020

Shahla F. Ali and Tom Ginsburg

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law and University of Chicago Law School

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Arbitration in Anarchy

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Oct 2017

John A. Ferejohn, Tom Ginsburg and Richard Holden

NYU Law School, University of Chicago Law School and University of New South Wales (UNSW)

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Setting an Agenda for the Socio-Legal Study of Contemporary Buddhism (Introduction)

Asian Journal of Law and Society 3:1-16 (2016), U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 643

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 23 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2017

Benjamin Schonthal and Tom Ginsburg

University of Otago and University of Chicago Law School

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The Institutional Context of the International Court of Justice

Cambridge Companion to the International Court of Justice, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 779

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2021

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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How to Study Constitution-Making: Hirschl, Elster, and the Seventh Inning Problem

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Jul 2017

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Pragmatics of Democratic 'Front-Sliding'

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 30 Apr 2022

Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq

University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago - Law School

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Constitution Makers on Constitution-Making

Constitution Makers on Constitution Making: New Cases, edited by Sumit Bisarya and Tom Ginsburg (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 21 Apr 2022

Tom Ginsburg and Sumit Bisarya

University of Chicago Law School and International IDEA

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Constitute: The World's Constitutions to Read, Search, and Compare

Journal of Web Semantics First Look

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 24 Jun 2018

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton, Robert Shaffer, Juan Sequeda and Daniel P. Miranker

University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School, University College London - School of Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Computer Science and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Computer Science

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Chaining the Dog of War: Comparative Data

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Sep 2014

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Military Occupations and Their Constitutional Residue

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 27 Aug 2014

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton

University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School and Central Michigan University - College of Business Administration

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Comments on Law and Versteeg's 'The Declining Influence of the United States Constitution'

New York University Law Review, Vol. 87, No. 762, 2012

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 27 Aug 2014

Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton

University of Texas, Austin, University of Chicago Law School and University College London - School of Public Policy

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Democracies and International Law

Democracies and International Law, Cambridge University Press 2021

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 21 Apr 2022

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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The Effects of Liberalization on Litigation: Notes Toward a Theory in the Context of Japan

Wash. U Global Studies Law Review, Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2009

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 27 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg and Glenn P. Hoetker

University of Chicago Law School and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Business Administration

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International Delegation and State Disaggregation

Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2009

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Aug 2014

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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What Can We Learn from Written Constitutions?

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 24, pp. 321-343, 2021

Posted: 22 Jun 2021

Zachary Elkins and Tom Ginsburg

University of Texas, Austin and University of Chicago Law School

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Rebel Use of Law and Courts

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 15, pp. 495-507, 2019

Posted: 23 Oct 2019

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Playing for Constitutional Time: Interim Constitutions & Transitional Provisions

Ginsburg, Tom, and Eric Alston. "Playing for constitutional time: Interim constitutions and transitional provisions." The Timing of Lawmaking (2017): 110

Posted: 17 Jun 2019

Eric Alston and Tom Ginsburg

Finance Division, University of Colorado Boulder and University of Chicago Law School

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In Defense of Imperialism? The Rule of Law and the State-Building Project

NOMOS: GETTING TO THE RULE OF LAW, James Fleming, ed., 2011

Posted: 17 Dec 2012

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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Constitutional Afterlife: The Continuing Impact of Thailand's Postpolitical Constitution

International Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 7, Issue 1, pp. 83-105, 2009

Posted: 17 Jan 2009

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago Law School

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University of Chicago Law School

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