Comparative Constitutional Law
Constitutional structures, rights adjudication, and judicial review in comparative perspective — how different systems answer the same constitutional questions.
I teach at the intersection of law and politics — from comparative constitutional law to political anthropology — bringing together perspectives from different disciplines to make sense of how law and power interact.
CURRENT COURSE
How constitutions are made, transformed, and dismantled — from founding moments and constitutional design to informal change, judicial interpretation, and the constitutional strategies of democratic backsliding.
COURSES TAUGHT
Constitutional structures, rights adjudication, and judicial review in comparative perspective — how different systems answer the same constitutional questions.
Foundations of the international legal order: sources, statehood, jurisdiction, and the politics of compliance and enforcement.
The origins, institutions, and contested practice of human rights — from international regimes to domestic courts and social movements.
Regimes, institutions, and political change across countries — with particular attention to democratization and its reversals.
Power, the state, and political life through an ethnographic lens — how authority is produced, performed, and contested in everyday practice.
Legal institutions beyond the Global North: legal pluralism, courts under authoritarianism, and the social life of law in developing polities.