Adam Chilton

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Empirical Constitutional Studies: Future Directions
Adam Chilton
Adam Chilton is a Professor of Law and the Walter Mader Research Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School.
Mila Versteeg
Mila Versteeg is the Class of 1941 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a Carnegie Fellow at the Andrew Carnegie Foundation of New York.

Our new book—How Constitutional Rights Matter—tries to answer a difficult empirical question: do constitutional rights actually change government behavior? We theorize that constitutional rights that protect individuals often fail to constrain governments, but that constitutional rights that protect organizations can be powerful tools to push back against repression.

Empirical Constitutional Studies

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