Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance: A Comparative and Global Approach

The book examines the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa.

Alec Stone Sweet, Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor of Law, National University of Singapore; Senior Research Fellow, the Yale Law School,Jud Mathews, Associate Professor of Law at Penn State Law and a Faculty Affiliate of Penn State's School of International Affairs

Alec Stone Sweet is Saw Swee Hock Centennial Professor of Law, National University of Singapore, and Senior Research Fellow, the Yale Law School. He is the author of The Birth of Judicial Politics in France, Governing with Judges: Constitutional Politics in Europe, On Law, Politics, and Judicialization, The Judicial Construction of Europe, The Evolution of International Arbitration: Judicialization, Governance, Legitimacy, A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the ECHR, and the co-editor of European Integration and Supranational Governance, The Institutionalization of Europe, and A Europe of Rights, all published by Oxford University Press


Jud Mathews is an Associate Professor of Law at Penn State Law and a Faculty Affiliate of Penn State's School of International Affairs. His research focuses on constitutional law and administrative law. He is the author of Extending Rights' Reach: Constitutions, Private Law, and Judicial Power (OUP, 2018).