Constitutional Actors Beyond the Courts

Harvard HLS

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course is a study of constitutional design, law, and politics from a comparative perspective. It has two distinctive features: first, the course goes beyond a focus on courts and legal norms. While constitutional courts will feature, they will do so as one of many constitutional actors that comprise a constitutional system. Our focus will be on the study of non-judicial constitutional actors (such as legislatures, executives, bureaucracies,…