Chapter 1: Constitutions, Constitutional Law, and Constitutionalism Chapter 2: Constitution-Making Chapter 3: Constitutional Change Chapter 4: Courts and Constitutional Review Chapter 5: The Separation of Powers Chapter 6: Emergencies Chapter 7: Federalism and the Territorial Organization of Power Chapter 8: An Overview of Constitutional Rights Chapter 9: Freedom of Expression Chapter 10: Pluralism Chapter 11: Equality and Non-Discrimination Chapter 12: Economic and Social Rights Chapter 13: Elections and Democracy

Mila Versteeg is the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Her research and teaching interests include comparative constitutional law, public international law, and empirical legal studies. Professor Versteeg has held visiting appointments at the University of Chicago Law School, Columbia Law School, the Hebrew University, the University of Hamburg, Tel Aviv University, and IDC Herzliya. Her 2020 monograph How Constitutional Rights Matter (OUP, co-authored with Adam Chilton) won the Best Book Prize from the International Society of Public Law and the Best Book Award from the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago, where he serves as Faculty Director for the Forum on Free Inquiry and Expression, as well as the Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity. He is also a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Author of five books, Professor Ginsburg currently co-directs the Comparative Constitutions Project, which catalogues the world's constitutions since 1789 and runs the award-winning Constitute website. Professor David Landau is the Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs at Florida State University College of Law. Combining insights from law and political science, his scholarship focuses on constitutional design, constitutional theory, and comparative constitutional law. Professor Landau's work can be found in leading law journals including the California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. His monograph Abusive Constitutional Borrowing (co-authored with Rosalind Dixon) was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.

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