Territory and Power in Constitutional Transitions
Edited by George Anderson and Sujit Choudhry
Author Information
Edited by George Anderson, Fellow, Centre for Democracy and Diversity, Queen's University, Canada, and Sujit Choudhry, Director, Center for Constitutional Transitions
George Anderson is former deputy minister (permanent secretary) in the Canadian government and subsequently CEO of the Forum of Federations. He has been a member of the Standby Team of Experts in the UN's Department of Political Affairs and consulted extensively around the world. He is currently a fellow at the Centre for Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, and has had earlier resident fellowships at Harvard and New York universities.
Sujit Choudhry is an internationally recognized authority on comparative constitutional law, and has been an advised on constitution building, governance, and rule of law processes for over 20 years, including in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Nepal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine and Yemen. He founded and directs the Center for Constitutional Transitions (CT).
Contributors:
Zaid Al-Ali is the senior adviser for constitution building in the Arab region for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance. From 2015-2016, he was a law and public affairs fellow at Princeton University.
Jacques Bertrand is Professor and Associate Chair of Political Science, as well as Director of the Collaborative Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto.
Harihar Bhattacharyya is Professor of Political Science at the University of Burdwan. He has previously taught at the Universities of Heidelberg, Hull, Fribourg, and Delhi University. He was associated with the Burundi and Sri Lankan Peace processes; and facilitated the constitution-making process in Nepal.
César Colino is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at the Spanish National Distance-Learning University (UNED) in Madrid.
Assefa Fiseha is an associate professor at the Centre for Federalism and Governance Studies at Addis Ababa University.
Jill Cottrell Ghai has taught law at universities in Nigeria, and at the University of Warwick and the University of Hong Kong. She has acted as an advisor for several constitutional processes and is currently working with the Katiba Institute in Nairobi on the 2010 Constitution of Kenya.
Yash Ghai received his legal education at Oxford and Harvard. He has taught at the law school in Dar es Salaam, and the University of Warwick and the University of Hong Kong. He has been involved in the making of around twenty constitutions and acted as chair for a section of the Kenyan process. He is currently working to promote the Kenyan Constitution alongside his other research activities.
Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law at the University of Chicago. He holds B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He currently serves as a senior technical advisor to the Constitution Building Program of International IDEA.
Angustias Hombrado is Assistant Professor, at the Department of Political Science at the Spanish National Distance-Learning University (UNED) in Madrid. She has published on the Spanish federal system and on decentralization, asymmetry, and territorial accommodation in comparative perspective especially about the cases of Spain, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Bryony Lau is an expert in conflict prevention, peace processes, and humanitarian aid in Southeast Asia. Over the past decade, she has worked for the International Crisis Group, including as lead researcher on the Philippines, as well as in regional roles for the International Development Research Centre and the Asia Foundation. She is currently working for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Myanmar. She holds degrees in politics and history from the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Neophytos Loizides is Professor in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent. Neophytos has also served as a consultant to various governments and international organizations including the Council of Europe.
Mara Malagodi is a Senior Lecturer in Law at City Law School, University of London. She earned her Ph.D. and other degrees from SOAS, London, and B.A. and M.A. in International Relations & Diplomacy from Trieste. She is a scholar of the Middle Temple and a non-practising barrister.
John McGarry is Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy at the Department of Political Studies, Queen's University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Canada.
George Gray Molina is Economic Advisor for Latin America and the Caribbean with the United Nations Development Programme. In his home country, Bolivia, he was Director of the Bolivian Ministry of the Presidency's economic think tank, UDAPE (Unidad de Análisis de Políticas Sociales y Económicas), and was also coordinator of the Bolivian Human Development Report Office. He has taught public policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and was a post-doctoral Global Leaders Fellow at University College, Oxford and Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is a graduate of Cornell and Harvard and holds a D. Phil. from Oxford.
Gustavo Bonifaz Moreno holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His thesis, 'The Gap between Legality and Legitimacy: the Bolivian State Crisis (2000-2008) in Historical and Regional Perspective', focuses on the shifting salience of social cleavages in Bolivia's history and its impact in the country's constitutional change.
Luis Moreno is a research professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid.
Cheryl Saunders is a Laureate Professor Emeritus at Melbourne Law School, co-convenor of the Constitution Transformation Network, and a senior technical advisor to the Constitution Building Program of International IDEA. She has written widely on comparative constitutional law, comparative constitutional theory, and method and the application of comparative constitutional law and method in the field of constitution-building.
Nico Steytler is the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy at the Dullah Omar Institute of Constitutional Law, Governance and Human Rights at the University of Western Cape. He researches multi-level government in South Africa, elsewhere in Africa, and further afield.
Rotimi Suberu is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Bennington College, Vermont, USA. Previously, he taught political science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory in the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh. He serves as a legal adviser to the House of Lords Constitution Committee.
Lucan Way is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is co-director of the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and co-chair of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Democracy.
Asanga Welikala is a lecturer in public law and the Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is a research associate at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, a research fellow at the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA), Sri Lanka, and a member of the Inclusive Transitions Practice Group of the Institute for Inclusive Transitions (IFIT), Spain. His research and teaching interests include comparative constitutional law, applied constitutional theory, and Commonwealth constitutional history. He co-convenes the Arthur Berriedale Keith Forum on Commonwealth Constitutionalism, an interdisciplinary research network of law, politics, and history at Edinburgh.
Marie-Joëlle Zahar is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Research Network on Peace Operations at the University of Montreal. She is a senior non-resident fellow with the International Peace Institute and a former member of the United Nations Standby Team of mediation experts. Her research focuses on the uses of violence by non-state armed groups and the uses and misuses of power sharing as an institutional mode of conflict resolution.
