In recent years, the judicialization of politics worldwide has expanded its scope to
encompass what we may term “mega-politics”—matters of outright and utmost political …

According to popular wisdom, judicial independence and the rule of law are essential
features of modern democracy. Drawing on the growing comparative literature on courts, we …

Within days of the Singapore parliamentary election in May 2011, Lee Kuan Yew and Goh
Chok Tong announced that they had decided to leave the nation's cabinet, where they had …

Ownership is the touchstone of corporate governance analysis' and a central strand of
literature on theory of the firm. 2 The identity of a corporation's equity owners has enormous …

This path-breaking collection analyzes the dialectic between legal and constitutional
innovations intended to inscribe corporate power and market disciplines in world order, and …

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social
welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many …

The nature of the presidency in American constitutional governance cannot be understood
without reference to norms. 1 These unwritten or informal rules of political behavior provide …

Constitutional courts have emerged as central institutions in many advanced democracies.
This book investigates the sources and the limits of judicial authority, focusing on the central …

In recent decades, there has been a wide-ranging global movement towards constitutional
review. This development poses important puzzles of political economy: Why would self …

Despite the lack of socio-economic rights in the US Constitution and the absence of political
will to enforce them, the vast majority of constitutions around the world now include these …