David Landau

Professor David Landau’s scholarship focuses on constitutional design, constitutional theory, and comparative constitutional law. His recent work has focused on a range of issues with contemporary salience both in the United States and elsewhere around the world, including constitutional change and constitution-making, judicial role and the enforcement of rights, impeachment, and the erosion of democracy. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, combining insights from law and political science.

Professor Landau’s work has been or is forthcoming in leading law journals including the California Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and the Harvard International Law Journal. His monograph Abusive Constitutional Borrowing (co-authored with Rosalind Dixon) was published in 2021 by Oxford University Press. He has previously published several other books and edited volumes with Oxford University Press and Edward Elgar Press.

Professor Landau’s work has been cited by the high courts of several countries, including the Supreme Court of Israel, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of Colombia, the Constitutional Tribunal of Chile, the Supreme Federal Tribunal of Brazil, and the Supreme Court of Kenya.