Constitutionalism
Larry Catá Backer, Flora Sapio, and James Korman, “Popular Participation in the Constitution of the Illiberal State: An empirical Study of Popular Engagement and Constitutional Reform in Cuba and the Contours of Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0,” Emory International Law Review 34: 183-276 (2020). ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/backer-sapio-korman.pdf
Larry Catá Backer and Flora Sapio, “Popular Consultation and Referendum in the Making of Contemporary Cuban Socialist Democracy Practice and Constitutional Theory, University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review 27(1):37-130 (2020). ACCESS ARTICLE HERE: https://www.backerinlaw.com/Site/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Popular-Consultation-and-Referendum-in-the-Making-of-Contemporary.pdf
Chinese Constitutionalism in the ‘New Era’: The Constitution in Emerging Idea and Practice,” Connecticut Journal of International Law 33(2):163-213 (2018). DOWNLOAD HERE: Backer 33(2)UConnJIntlL6.13.18
The Crisis of Secular Liberalism and the Constitutional State in Comparative Perspective: Religion, Rule of Law, and Democratic Organization of Religion Privileging States, Cornell International Law Journal 48:51-104 (2015) http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/ILJ/upload/Backer-final.pdf DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: Backer-final
The Emerging Structures of Socialist Constitutionalism With Chinese Characteristics: Extra-Judicial Detention (Laojiao and Shuanggui) and the Chinese Constitutional Order, 23(2) Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 251-341 (2014) (With Keren Wang). https://digital.lib.washington.edu/dspace-law/handle/1773.1/1365 DOENLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 23PRLPJ0251
Theocratic Constitutionalism: An Introduction to a New Legal Global Ordering, 16(1) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 85-172 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 16IndJGlobalStub85(2009)
From Constitution to Constitutionalism: A Global Framework for Legitimate Public Power Systems, 113(3) Penn State Law Review 671-732 (2009). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 113PennStateLRev671(2009) updated 6-11-09
“God(s) Over Constitutions: International and Religious Transnational Constitutionalism in the 21st Century,” Mississippi College Law Review 27:11-65 (2008). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 27MissCollLRev11(2007)God(s)OverConst
Forward: “Constituting Nations – Veils, Disguises, Masquerades,” Penn State International Law Review 20(2):329-338 (2002). DOWNLOAD ARTICLE HERE: 20(2)PSUIntlLRev329(2002)Veils