Sujit Choudhry is head of Haki Chambers Global, where he practices constitutional law both in Canada and globally. He previously taught at the University of Toronto, New York University, and UC Berkeley, and has been a visiting professor at Reichman University, the City University of Hong Kong, and the University of Melbourne. He has written widely on comparative constitutional law. His previous edited volumes include Security Sector Reform and Constitutional Transitions, Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, and Constitutional Design for Divided Societies: Integration or Accommodation?
Michaela Hailbronner holds the Chair for German and International Public Law and Comparative Law at the University of Münster. Michaela has published on questions of comparative constitutional law, European law, and human rights in a range of international journals including the American Journal of Comparative Law and the Toronto Law Journal, with her article on postwar German constitutionalism winning the inaugural Best Paper Award of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON). She is on the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), is a co-editor of Verfassung und Recht in Übersee/World Comparative Law and serves as Co-President for the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) from 2024-2027.
Mattias Kumm is Inge Rennert professor of law at New York University. His legal scholarship mainly focuses on basic issues and contemporary challenges in Global, European, and Comparative Public Law. Beyond his current affiliations, Kumm has held professorial appointments at Harvard, Yale, and the European University Institute (EUI) among others. He is also founding co-editor in chief of Global Constitutionalism and Jus Cogens. Kumm holds an JSD from Harvard Law School and has pursued studies in law, philosophy, and political sciences at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, and Harvard University.

• 1: Sujit Choudhry, Michaela Hailbronner, and Mattias Kumm: Introduction


• Part I: Foundations


• 2: Rosalind Dixon: A Global Constitutional Canon v Quasi-Canon? Towards a More Informed and Inclusive Comparative Constitutionalism


• 3: Mark Tushnet: The Jurisprudence of Canons of Comparative Constitutional Law


• 4: Victor Ferreres Comella: Emmanuel Sieyes, 'What Is the Third Estate?' (1789)


• 5: Günter Frankenberg: A Haitian Turn


• 6: David Dyzenhaus: Exemplary but not Canonical: The South African Voters' Rights Cases


• 7: James Fowkes: A Constitutional Canon for Africa


• 8: Ana Micaela Alterio and Roberto Niembro: The Mexican Constitution of 1917: A Canon for Latin American Constitutionalism


• Part II: Structures


• 9: Kevin Tan: Separation of Powers


• 10: Sergio Verdugo: Global Canons, Term Limits, and the Constituent Power Theory


• 11: Wen-Chen Chang and Chien-Chih Lin: The Canon of "Constitutional Unamendability" and "Basic Structure Doctrine" in Global Constitutional Studies


• 12: Yonatan Fessha: The Secession and Constitutionalism Canon


• Part III: Rights


• 13: Marcela Prieto Rudolphy: The Questions of Dignity


• 14: Kai Möller: Lüth and the 'Objective System of Values': From 'Limited Government' Towards an Autonomy-Based Conception of Constitutional Rights


• 15: Francisca Pou Giminez: Global Proportionality Canons from Latin America


• 16: Adrienne Stone: Freedom of Expression and the Constitutional Canon


• 17: Jaclyn Neo Ling Chen: Freedom of Religion


• 18: David Schneiderman: Comparative Constitutional Law of Property


• 19: Renata Uitz: Equality


• 20: Yoon Jin Shin: Gender Discrimination and Canons for Constitutional Review


• 21: Katherine G Young: The Canons of Social and Economic Rights


• 22: David E. Landau: The Unsettled Canon of Social Rights Enforcement in Latin America


• 23: Tom Ginsburg: The Due Process Canon


• 24: Kate O'Regan: Drawing Their Own Boundaries: Constitutional Interpretation and the Constitutional Role of Courts


• 25: Richard Albert: Techniques of Judicial Avoidance


• Part IV: Beyond the State and the Individual


• 26: Ran Hirschl: The City as a Canonical Concept in Constitutional Law (and Recent Attempts to Change That)


• 27: Alexandra Huneeus: The Canon of Nature Rights


• 28: Michael Riegner: Canonizing the Corporation: Liberal, Social, and Transformative Varieties of Corporate Constitutionalism


• 29: Phoebe Okowa: Act of State and Diplomatic Protection in the Modern Constitution: Two Case Studies


• 30: Vlad Perju: The Hollow Canon of Transnational Constitutional Engagement

This edited collection asks what texts are key to our understanding of the shared values of constitutional democracy and human rights from a comparative law perspective. The volume explores this idea of 'canonical' texts as part of a broader conversation about the field and the future of comparative constitutionalism.