This edited collection brings together leading scholars to consider how much we know about the idea of a founding moment, when they occur and what forms they might take.
Introduction: Mapping the Founding Richard Albert and Menaka Guruswamy 1. Between Fact and Norm: Narrative and the Constitutionalisation of Founding Moments Ming-Sung Kuo 2. The Role of Courts in Advancing Constitutional Moments: Constitutionalising the Constitution in Singapore and Hong Kong Swati Jhaveri 3. Foundation and Revolution: Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Legitimacy and Stability in Constitutional Consolidation Mel A Topf 4. I am Not Your (Founding) Father Mikolaj Barczentewicz 5. ‘And Then They Begin to Look after the History of Their Founders’: (Re)configurations of the Founding in the Early Republic Simon Gilhooley 6. Under the Shadow of the Constitutional Revolution? Revisiting Israel’s Founding Moments Yair Sagy 7. Path-Dependency in Soviet and Russian Constitution-Making Eugene D Mazo 8. ‘Founding Moments’ in Latin America? Th e Brazilian and Chilean Constitutional Histories and the Rise of the Forgotten People Juliano Zaiden Benvindo 9. We the Taiwanese People: A Constitution with Two Antagonistic Constitutional Identities Chien-Chih Lin 10. What’s in a Founding? Founding Moments and Pakistan’s ‘Permanent Constitution’ of 1973 Maryam S Khan 11. A Founding Moment in Iraq: A Gender Perspective Noga Efrati Conclusion: Rethinking Founding Moments Nishchal Basnyat
Richard Albert is the William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin. Menaka Guruswamy is a Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of India and was the BR Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School from 2017 to 2019. Nishchal Basnyat is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School. He was also the Lt Charles Fiske III Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge University.
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