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Professor Ozan Varol Presents on Constitutional Stickiness

Professor Ozan Varol participated in a panel discussion on Constitutional Stickiness at the Younger Comparativists Committee Fourth Annual Global Conference.
April 28, 2015

Professor Ozan Varol presented his forthcoming paper, Constitutional Stickiness (49 U.C. Davis Law Review __ (2016), at a conference panel on constitutional design held as part of the Younger Comparativists Committee Fourth Annual Global Conference, held at Florida State University College of Law in April 2015. Drawing on comparative examples, the paper explores why constitutional makeovers counterintuitively produce relatively little change in constitutional substance and why existing provisions frequently “stick” even where they are arbitrary, suboptimal, or anachronistic.

You can follow Professor Varol’s writing on his blog and download a free chapter from his upcoming book, The Democratic Coup d’État.

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