Competing Authority in Constitutions: the State and Non-State Law

• In Event: Comparative Law and Courts

Brief Overview

We examine how constitutional texts treat international and customary law as sources of authority. We build a new dataset to gauge the relationship between state and non-state law and develop a theory of competing power among legal authorities.

Authors

• Christina Bambrick, University of Notre Dame

• Emilia Justyna Powell, University of Notre Dame