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North American Constitutionalism

LAPA's conference on North American Constitutionalism was co-sponsored with the University of Toronto Law School and was held in Toronto in October 2004. Organized by former LAPA fellow Ran Hirschl and then-LAPA-director Christopher Eisgruber, the conference brought together participants from Canada, the US and Mexico to talk about common constitutional legacies and important constitutional differences. The papers from this conference were published in a special issue of the journal I-Con, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, a faculty-edited journal based at the NYU Law School. The table of contents of the 2006 volume is listed below, papers and abstracts can be found on this page at the I-Con website. If you are entering through a Princeton campus computer or through a Princeton-based VPN connection from off-campus, you will be able to access all articles because Princeton subscribes to the journal. If you are outside the Princeton environment, contact your local university library about whether your institution has access to the journal.

I•Con, Volume 4, Number 2

Ran Hirschl and Christopher L. Eisgruber
Prologue: North American constitutionalism?

Kim Lane Scheppele
North American emergencies: The use of emergency powers in Canada and the United States

Christopher L. Eisgruber and and Mariah Zeisberg
Religious freedom in Canada and the United States

Yasmin Dawood
Democracy, power, and the Supreme Court: Campaign finance reform in comparative context

Leslie F. Goldstein
Constitutionalism and policies toward women: Canada and the United States

Linda A. White
Institutions, constitutions, actor strategies, and ideas: Explaining variation in paid parental leave policies in Canada and the United States

Kent Roach
Dialogue or defiance: Legislative reversals of Supreme Court decisions in Canada and the United States

David Schneiderman
Property rights and regulatory innovation: Comparing constitutional cultures

Jorge A. Schiavon
The central-local division of power in the Americas and renewed Mexican federalism: Old institutions, new political realities

Stephen Zamora and José Ramón Cossío
Mexican constitutionalism after presidencialismo