Author: Rosenfeld, Michel

Source: International Journal of Constitutional Law, Volume 10, Number 3, 2 July 2012 , pp. 799-808(10)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Abstract:

Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is the author of several books, including Affirmative Action and Justice: A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry, which in 1992 was named outstanding book on the subject of human rights in the US by the Gustave Meyers Center; Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics; Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials (with Baer, Dorsen, and Sajo); The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture, and Community (Routledge 2010); and Law, Justice, Democracy and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (Cambridge U. Press 2011). He is the coeditor of The Longest Night: Perspectives and Polemics on Election 2000; Hegel and Legal Theory; Habermas on Law and Democracy: Critical Exchanges; Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice; and editor of Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference and Legitimacy: Theoretical Perspectives. He is co- editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), and was president of the International Association of Constitutional Law (1999-2004). Among his many honors, he received the French government's highest and most prestigious award, the Legion of Honor. In 2007-2008, he held an International Blaise Pascal Research Chair at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. He was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto and held the Fresco Chair in Jurisprudence at the University of Genoa in 2007, and the Chaim Perelman Chair in Legal Philosophy at the Free University of Brussels in 2011.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/mor062

Publication date: 2012-07-02

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