Professor Ran Hirschl to deliver prestigious lecture at Oxford

Professor Ran Hirschl will deliver the endowed Foundation for Law, Justice, and Society Annual Lecture at Oxford University. Previous speakers include such noted luminaries as Douglass North (Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics at Stanford University), Cass Sunstein (noted legal theorist and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School), and Aharon Barak (former President of the Supreme Court of Israel).

In his lecture, entitled "Politicizing Law, Judicializing Politics: A Realist Approach to Comparative Constitutionalism," Professor Hirschl will explore the growing convergence to constitutional supremacy and the corresponding increase in the political importance of constitutional courts worldwide.

The lecture will chart the emergence of a realist approach that draws on comparative research to provide a richer explanatory account of the causal relationships between constitutional law and various political, social, or economic phenomena.

Drawing on various examples of constitutionalization, this lecture will further explore the strengths and weaknesses of studying comparatively the socio-political foundations of constitutions and constitutional institutions worldwide.

The lecture will take place at Magdalen College, Oxford, on May 20th at 5:30 pm.

For more information or to book tickets, please visit the website of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society.