Christine Bader, Adviser to the U.S. Secretary General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights (John Ruggie) has just announced the commencement of an important participatory vehicle for individuals and organizations interested in...

In this age of mass democracy, elections are the essence of democratic constitutionalism. Elections, like some purifying elixir, cleanses all (political) sin of states that indulge the practice. An act of sovereign will by which the people of a state...

The Honduran constitutional crisis continues to lurch toward its messy end. At the insistence of the international community, both sets of protagonists in the conflict agered to s set of extra constitutional actions that were meant to restore Mr....

Pluralism, or its cousin, multiculturalism, might suggest a more horizontal relationship among different communities sharing the same territorial space. It suggests mutual respect and toleration. It also might suggest a willingness, among a political...

Set out below are some preliminary thought on the question posed by the title of this essay--is it possible to reach escape velocity from the orbit of the state, and state-law systems? In other words, is it possible to conceive of governance without...