Vicki C. Jackson is the Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and previously taught at the Georgetown University Law Center as Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constitutional Law. Professor Jackson is co-author with Professor Mark Tushnet of Comparative Constitutional Law (2d ed. 2006), a leading coursebook, and co-edited, also with Professor Tushnet, Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law (2002). Other books include Federal Courts Stories (2010) (co-editor with Judith Resnik) and Inside the Supreme Court: The Institution and its Procedures (2008) (with Susan Bloch). Professor Jackson has also served as a Vice-President of the International Association of Constitutional Law.

"There is no better scholar today than Vicki Jackson in helping us understand and appreciate the growing relationship between American constitutional law and the law of the rest of the world. This promises to be the leading book in this great debate." --David Fontana, George Washington University School of Law

"Jackson's book is an inspired invitation to enter into a global constitutional conversation...The book is of momentous importance not only to ongoing debates about resort to foreign and international law within the United States, but to the work of high courts elsewhere in the world." --David Schneiderman, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"Comparative study is the new frontier in constitutional law scholarship, and Vicki Jackson provides a thoughtful way into it, dismissing simple surrender to comparativism as well as dogmatic opposition. Hers is a fascinating new approach to comparative constitutional law that will engage us for many years." --Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, Supreme Court of Israel

"Impressive in both its breadth and depth, Professor Jackson'sELmeasured approach to judicial engagement with the transnational suggests a way forward in a public debate that has been polarized for far too long." --Melissa Waters, American journal of Comparative Law