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Politicizing Law, Judicializing Politics: A Realist Approach to Comparative Constitutionalism

FLJS Annual Lecture in Law & Society, held in association with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

Thursday 20 May 2010

Magdalen College, Oxford

Professor Ran Hirschl, Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Toronto

Professor Ran Hirschl

This FLJS Annual Lecture 2010 explores the increase in the political importance of constitutional courts worldwide.


Professor Hirschl provides a realist analysis to argue that this trend could be an indication not of increased liberalisation and the defence of human rights, but merely a political strategy of hegemonic preservation.

Professor Hirschl's work has been described as 'pathbreaking, compelling, and iconoclastic: destined to be a landmark in comparative legal and political analysis'.

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