An Unamendable Constitution? / Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice Bd.68 (PDF)

Richard Albert is Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes about constitutional change, including amendment, replacement, interpretation and revolution. His publications have been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. He is author of "Formas y función de la enmienda constitucional" (Externado 2017) and co-editor of "Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution" (Cambridge 2017) and "The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment" (Hart 2017). He is also co-editor of the new Oxford Series in Comparative Constitutionalism, co-editor of the Routledge Series on Comparative Constitutional Change, book reviews editor for the American Journal of Comparative Law, co-editor of I-CONnect, and chair-elect of the AALS Section on Comparative Law. A former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada, he holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard. Bertil Emrah Oder is Dean and Professor of Constitutional law at Koç University Law School. She is an expert in comparative constitutional law, European Union law and international human rights law. Dean Oder holds memberships in the International Association of Constitutional Law, the International Society of Public Law, the Constitution Builders Network, the German Turkish Colloquium for Public Law, the International Law Association ILI-Istanbul, and is a founding member of the Association for Research and Application of Constitutional Law. She has served as consultant of UN Women and published two monographs: Constitution and Constitutionalism in the European Union (Anahtar Publishing: 2004) and Methods of Interpretation in Constitutional Adjudication (Beta Publishing: 2010). She has also published two textbooks: Cases & Materials on Constitutional Law for Active Learning (Beta Publishing: 2001) (co-authored) and Constitutional Law in Practice (Beta Publishing: 2008 and 2013) (coauthored). And she has published