跑Hirschl’s 比较重要的
《波士顿法律评论》 图书研讨会邀请学者讨论多伦多大学教授最近的奖学金。
On Thursday, November 12, 波士顿大学法学院 welcomed several distinguished comparative constitutional law scholars to participate in the annual 《波士顿法律评论》 Book Symposium.
每年，波士顿大学法学院都会选择一本重要的、最近出版的法律书籍，就一个及时的话题进行重要的讨论。 作者被邀请介绍他或她的工作，学者内外的BU法律界被邀请撰写和目前的书的文章。 The essays are then published in the 波士顿大学法律评论.
This year’s symposium focused on 比较事务：比较宪法学的复兴 by 跑Hirschl, professor of law and political science and holder of the Canada 澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究 Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. 比较重要的 is the third and final part of his exploration of the intersecting worlds of constitutional law and comparative politics that began with 对Juristocracy (Harvard University Press, 2004) and continued with 宪法神权政体 (Harvard University Press, 2010). 在研讨会开幕时，Hirschl教授谈到了这个项目的开始，以及他希望在写这些书时达到的目标。
跨学科的棒球
BU Professor of Law and scholar of comparative property law 安娜·迪·罗比兰特 opened the first panel. She observed that the “artificial separation between comparative constitutional law and other related fields that study the same phenomenon will only limit the questions we ask and address.” Hirschl’s book, she argues, works to bring back the “big questions”—questions about social life that are substantively and normatively important—that inclusively engage scholars from separate disciplines in the study of social life. Di Robilant指出，大规模实证澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究的激增是这些大问题复苏的证据，但她也呼吁进行定性的历史比较分析，她认为这将允许对社会生活现象进行因果推断。
Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf 澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究 Scholar, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago 汤姆金斯伯格 then discussed the need to expand the temporal scope of comparative constitutional law. He related the focus on court cases in comparative constitutional law to a baseball fan who engages in “7th inning analysis:” one who pays attention to and draws conclusions from only one inning, late in the game. 金斯伯格认为，采用如此狭窄的比较窗口，我们错过了许多重要的问题：“宪法秩序从何而来？” 法院是如何拥有这样的权力的？ 这一决定对法院裁决后的实际结果有什么影响？”
我们问的问题
In the second panel, Harvard Law School’s Thurgood Marshall Professor of Constitutional Law 维姬杰克逊 suggested that the limited conversation between legal scholars and scholars in other fields may be due in part to those fields’ lack of methodological comfort with the law. 她想知道赫施尔的书和他将比较宪法与社会科学更紧密地联系起来的努力，在更广泛的法律学术背景下是如何适应的。 她质疑，目标是将法律澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究视为一门科学吗？ 这对该领域有利吗？ 杰克逊指出，向学生讲授法律课程的好处是，他们中的大多数人将在社会、政治和文化互动中实践法律。
Associate Professor of Law 凯瑟琳年轻, of Boston College Law School, took up the question of what it means for a law or a legal practice to be “constitutional.” 她指出，在法律思维中，“大C”宪法和“小C”宪法往往是有区别的。 前者是正式的书面文本，而后者则存在于一系列“对宪法保护的成功同样至关重要”的实践、传统和规范中。 对后者的澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究对于比较学术来说是非常有用的。 Young suggested the “small c” constitution in scholarship and practice calls for links between fields of study but also for attention to normative, prescriptive “what” questions—what is law? as well as to explanatory questions of “why” and “how.”
对话的空间
The symposium provided an important space for these scholars to consider the “big questions” that concern their field. Events like the 《波士顿法律评论》 symposia offer students the unique opportunity to participate in that intellectual life in a format that invites discussion and the exchange of ideas.
Essays presented at the 比较重要的 symposium will soon be available in a future edition of the 《波士顿法律评论》. Please 查看网站 in the coming months to read more about the ideas exchanged during this exciting event.
