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Miguel Schor
Professor of Law

 S H O R T   B I O G R A P H Y

After graduating from law school, Professor Schor clerked for a federal district court judge in Louisiana and for the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He then practiced law in New Orleans, Louisiana, before deciding to ride his bicycle across the United States and embark on a graduate program in Latin American Studies. Professor Schor's research interests deal with comparative constitutionalism and how law can be used to facilitate development and consolidate democracy in the Third World. He is currently working on an article dealing with democratic constitutionalism.

Degrees:
BA, MA, JD

Subjects:
Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Contracts, Sales

Professional Activities:
American Society of Comparative Law, Law and Society, Latin American Studies

  S E L E C T E D   P U B L I C A T I O N S
 

B O O K     C H A P T E R S

 
Rule of Law, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (David Clark ed., 2007)

 

A R T I C L E S

 
The Strange Cases of Marbury and Lochner in the Constitutional Imagination, 87 TEX. L. REV. 1463 (2009)

An Essay on the Emergence of Constitutional Courts: The Cases of Mexico and Colombia, 16 IND. J. GLOBAL LEGAL STUD. 173 (2009)

Tom Ginsburg's and Tamir Moustafa's, eds., Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes, 43 LAW & SOC'Y 241 (2009) (book review)

Judicial Review and American Constitutional Exceptionalism, 46 OSGOODE HALL L.J. 535 (2008)

Mapping Comparative Judicial Review, 7 WASH. U. GLOBAL STUD. L. REV. 257 (2008)

Squaring the Circle: Democratizing Judicial Review and the Counter-Constitutional Difficulty, 16 MINN. J. INT'L L. 61 (2007)

Constitutionalism Through the Looking Glass of Latin America, 41 TEX. INT'L L.J. 1 (2006)

Constitucionalismo en América Latina: Consolidando el Estado de derecho, 15 MÉTAPOLÍTICA 80 (2000)



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