Constitutional Studies—published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law—just published its new issue assessing the age of extremes we live in today—extreme weather events caused by climate change, extreme loss of lives due to pandemics, extreme economic inequality, and political and social extremes exacerbated by the compounded effects of old, entrenched cleavages based on race, gender, religion, and class and new technologies of the internet, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. These extremes have led to polarized politics and political stalemates, discrimination, protests, mass migration and xenophobia, disinformation, violence, and even wars.
Constitutional Studies‘ December 2025 issue analyzes the consequences of these extremes for constitutionalism today. Read more in the editors’ preface on the importance of reassessing constitutional approaches amid the extremes we live in today. Articles span a range of disciplines, methods, and all six official UN languages, seeking to bridge across—and learn from—communities of constitutional scholars around the world.
Assess specific extremes with comprehensive assessments from Carole Petersen on attacks on universities, Yasuo Hasebe on academic freedom, Guatam Bhatia on economic inequality, David Driesen on executive power, Mette Marie Staer Harder and Helle Krunke on diplomatic extremes, and Adam Chilton, Arthur Langlois, Jan-Ulrich Dittmer, and Mila Versteeg on what AI knows about constitutional law.
Explore new ways the constitutional domain can respond with pieces by Victor V. Ramraj on a more cosmopolitan constitutionalism to address polycrisis; Netta Barak-Corren, Hanna Lerner, and Tirza Kelman on a new process for constituent assemblies amid polarization; and Ruth Rubio-Marín on teaching law in the age of extremes.
Explore these issues through varied disciplines as José María Serna de la Garza interviews former Colombian Constitutional Court President Manuel Cepeda, Dian Shah shares takeaways from interviews with judges across Asia, Alexandra Oancea traces key successful and failed constitutional reforms in 2025, and Giuseppe Martinico explores comics as constitutional critique.
Read new book reviews from Amal Sethi on Bhatia’s Horizontal Rights, Melissa Crouch on Tomás Daly and Dinesh Samararatne’s Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa, Francesco Biagi on Zaid al-Ali’s Arab Constitutionalism, and Cheryl Saunders on Alex Green’s Statehood as Political Community.
Submit abstracts to participate in Constitutional Studies‘ Innovations in Sustainable Constitutionalism amid Extremes Workshop for scholars and Journals Workshop for editors of journals and blogs on constitutional law. Both will take place at the IACL’s 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law in Bogotá, Colombia.
This expansive issue would not be possible without Constitutional Studies‘ terrific global editorial team! Please reach out with your feedback, and submit your work for the journal’s 2026 issues!