The Comparative Constitutional Law Seminar/Course will explore how  significant problems of constitutional law- are resolved in constitutional democracies across the globe.  We will explore the role of courts as constitutional adjudicators and specific judicial decisions on such matters as the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, abortion, equality, capital punishment, and positive constitutional rights.  We will explore the rise of what thickened cosmopolitan progressive constitutional democracy and the reaction to that understanding of constitutional democracy.  While much of the reading will be case law (all in English), the course will also cover more general readings exploring whether there is a crisis of constitutional democracy in particular regimes or globally. This offering may be taken as a 3-credit seminar (to be completed by submission of a seminar paper meeting the law school’s advanced writing certification requirement) or as a 2-credit course (which will require a lesser seminar paper).  There will also be a short pass-fail final examination.