Volume 1

SYMPOSIUM ISSUE
CONTEXTUALITY & UNIVERSALITY
CONSTITUTIONAL BORROWINGS ON THE GLOBAL STAGE

ARTICLES

Incomplete Revolutions and Not So Alien Transplants: The Japanese Constitution and Human Rights
Sylvia Brown Hamano

Islamic and American Constitutional Law: Borrowing Possibilities Or a History of Borrowing?
Azizah Y. al-Hibri

Growing Constitutions
Ruth Gordon

Ambivalent Resistance and Comparative Constitutionalism: Opening up the Conversation on “Proportionality,” Rights and Federalism
Vicki C. Jackson

COMMENTARIES

Invidious Comparisons: Some Cautionary Remarks on the Process of Constitutional Borrowing
Seth F. Kreimer

Contextuality and Universality: Constitutional Borrowings on the Global Stage–The Hungarian View
Imre Voros

STUDENT COMMENT

Opting for Death: State Responses to the AEDPA’s Opt-In Provisions and the Need for a Right to Post-Conviction Counsel
Alexander Rundlet

SYMPOSIUM ISSUE
CONTEXTUALITY & UNIVERSALITY:
CONSTITUTIONAL BORROWINGS ON THE GLOBAL STAGE

FOREWORD
Beatrice M. Shaffrath

ARTICLES

The Effect of Constitutional Borrowings on the Drafting of South Africa’s Bill of Rights and Interpretation of Human Rights Provisions
Jeremy Sarkin

The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Rights Interpretation and Comparative Constitutional Law
Hoyt Webb

The Deadweight of Formulae: What Might Have Been the Second Germanization of American Equal Protection Review
Alexander Somek

Returning with Interest: Observations on Some Putative Benefits of Studying Comparative Constitutional Law
Mark Tushnet

COMMENTARY

Can Constitutional Borrowing be Justified? A Comment on Tushnet
Matthew D. Adler

STUDENT COMMENTS

Velayat-E Faqih in the Constitution of Iran:  The Implementation of Theocracy
Neil Shevlin

Constitutional Conflict with the Japanese Imperial Role:  Accession, Yasukinu Shrine, and Obligatory Reformation
Noah Berlin

ARTICLES

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act is Unconstitutional, Period
Marci A. Hamilton

The Measuring Stick of Regulatory Takings: A Biological and Cultural Analysis
Raymond R. Coletta

Accommodating Outness: Hurley, Free Speech, and Gay and Lesbian Equality
Darren Lenard Hutchinson

COMMENTS

What Does It Mean to See a Black Church Burning? Understanding the Significance of Constitutionalizing Hate Speech
Michele M. SimmsParris

Singe-Sex Public Education: Equality Versus Choice
Tara Boland