Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Law, Legitimacy, Power

This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman's path-breaking book, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law. The book also features a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to the contributors' essays.

Some advance Ackerman's theory, others attack it, and still others refine it – but all agree that the id...