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Constitutionalism and the American Imperial Imagination
Aslı Bâli
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

We are grateful to the organizers of The University of Chicago Law Review Symposium for inviting us to contribute to this issue and to the participants of the symposium on May 12–13, 2017, for the constructive criticism they offered on our preliminary draft of this Essay. For their helpful suggestions on our argument, we would also like to thank Devon Carbado, Cheryl Harris, Ran Hirschl, Aziz Huq, Darryl Li, Odette Lienau, Hiroshi Motomura, Samuel Moyn, K-Sue Park, Intisar Rabb, Kim Scheppele, Noah Zatz, and the participants at the Yale Law School’s 2018 Middle East Legal Studies Seminar meeting in Lisbon. We are also grateful to Laura Bloom and Sam Millang for excellent research assistance.

Aziz Rana
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

President Donald Trump’s ascendance to the White House has been understood as signaling a breakdown in American global leadership.

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The Coming Demise of Liberal Constitutionalism?
Tom Ginsburg
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, The University of Chicago Law School
Aziz Z. Huq
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.
Mila Versteeg
Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law, University of Virgina School of Law

In the wake of World War II, liberal constitutionalism emerged as a default design choice for political systems across Europe and North America. It then diffused more widely across the globe as a whole.