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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of law and legal scholarship at the dawn of the 21st century. Through 43 essays it provides a set of road maps to guide readers through the increasingly large and conceptually sophisticated body of legal scholarship.

An ideal supplement for professors who wish to incorporate comparative law into their constitutional law courses, Global Perspectives on Constitutional Law introduces students to the various ways that nations other than the United States resolve contemporary constitutional questions. Covering both structural issues and individual rights, the book offers a wide but select range of readings on interesting constitutional issues in sixteen accessible chapters. Each brief chapter presents foreign case materials on a particular constitutional topic along with notes and questions that further illuminate the comparisons between U.S. constitutional law and that of other nations.

Abstract and concrete review (Michael C. Dorf) -- Judicial independence (Judith Resnik) -- Federal powers and the principle of subsidiary (Daniel Halberstam) -- Separation of powers and parliamentarian government (Laurence P. Claus) -- Property rights (Gregory S. Alexander) -- Abortion rights (Radhika Rao) -- Review of laws having racially disparate impacts (Adrien Katherine Wing) -- Affirmative action and benign discrimination (Ashutosh Bhagwat) -- Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (Nan D. Hunter) -- Review of laws having a disparate impact based on gender (Vicki C. Jackson) -- Free speech and the incitement of violence or unlawful behavior : statutes directed at speech (Stephen G. Gey) -- Free speech and the incitement of violence or unlawful behavior : statutes not specifically directed at speech (Stephen G. Gey) -- Regulation of hate speech (Michel Rosenfeld) -- Regulation of campaign finance (Richard L. Hasen) -- Religious freedom (Alan E. Brownstein) -- State action doctrine (Frank I. Michelman)