Acknowledgments
We owe more people more thanks for their help in thinking through these ideas than we can possibly list or remember. We are grateful to all with whom we have discussed this work. We are especially grateful to Dean John Manning of Harvard Law School and Deans Edward Iacobucci and Jutta Brunnée of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law for their support and encouragement. We also wish to thank Ran Hirschl and Tom Ginsburg, editors of the Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy series at Cambridge University Press, for their enthusiasm and insightful guidance, and an anonymous peer reviewer for valuable feedback which shaped, at an early stage, the contours of this book project. We are also very grateful to Richard Albert and Robert Schuetze for their helpful comments.
The ideas in this book were developed over a long period of time, and through conversations with many colleagues in the comparative constitutional law and human rights communities; they were discussed and debated at a May 2019 conference organized by Professor Vicki Jackson at Harvard Law School. For a rich, lively, and productive discussion, we thank all the participants at the conference, including Danielle Allen, Nicholas Barber, Elizabeth Bartholet, Manuel Cepeda, Tom Ginsburg, Tarun Khaitan, Madhav Khosla, Jeff King, David Landau, David Law, Jane Mansbridge, Gillian Metzger, Martha Minow, Gerald Neuman, Richard Pildes, Katharina Pistor, Sabeel Rahman, Daphna Renan, Matthew Stephenson, Mark Tushnet, Robin West, and Katharine Young. We extend our profound thanks as well to Oren Tamir for his always helpful insights, and to Chelsea McGovern, Liz Meyer, Daryl Muranaka, Megan O’Neil, and Benjamin Carignan for their invaluable administrative assistance with this book and the conference. Finally, we are enormously grateful to the editorial team at Cambridge University Press, including Matt Gallaway, Cameron Daddis, Jadyn Fauconier-Herry, and Becky Jackaman, as well as the team at Integra Software Services and freelance copy-editor Lori Heaford, for deftly steering this project to completion. We are also grateful to Arc Indexing for their assistance in preparing the index. A book like this is always a collective work, requiring both high-quality research and scholarship and high-quality editorial and administrative support. This book is fortunate to have had both.
