Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science & Law at the University of Toronto. As of 2016, he holds the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism, having been granted a coveted AvH International Research Award (the most highly-endowed research award in Germany) by the Humboldt Foundation. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)--the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as "one of the world's leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence."

• Introduction: An Urban Era Chapter 1: The Sound of Constitutional Silence Chapter 2: The Metropolis in "Old World" Constitutional Law Chapter 3: Constitutional Innovation in Governing the Metropolis: Law, Economic, Politics Chapter 4: Attempts at City Self-Empowerment Chapter 5: Rethinking City Constitutional Status Acknowledgments, List of Cases Cited, Index

...Hirschl deserves much praise in bringing to the fore a topic that should not have stayed in the shadows for so long. City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity raises tough questions and forces us to confront them head-on. This is a field-defining book—the results of which are already evident within the short period since this book's launch (and even before).

Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science & Law at the University of Toronto. As of 2016, he holds the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism, having been granted a coveted AvH International Research Award (the most highly-endowed research award in Germany) by the Humboldt Foundation. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)--the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as "one of the world's leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence."

• Introduction: An Urban Era Chapter 1: The Sound of Constitutional Silence Chapter 2: The Metropolis in "Old World" Constitutional Law Chapter 3: Constitutional Innovation in Governing the Metropolis: Law, Economic, Politics Chapter 4: Attempts at City Self-Empowerment Chapter 5: Rethinking City Constitutional Status Acknowledgments, List of Cases Cited, Index

...Hirschl deserves much praise in bringing to the fore a topic that should not have stayed in the shadows for so long. City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity raises tough questions and forces us to confront them head-on. This is a field-defining book—the results of which are already evident within the short period since this book's launch (and even before).

Ran Hirschl is Professor of Political Science & Law at the University of Toronto. As of 2016, he holds the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism, having been granted a coveted AvH International Research Award (the most highly-endowed research award in Germany) by the Humboldt Foundation. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)--the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as "one of the world's leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence."

• Introduction: An Urban Era Chapter 1: The Sound of Constitutional Silence Chapter 2: The Metropolis in "Old World" Constitutional Law Chapter 3: Constitutional Innovation in Governing the Metropolis: Law, Economic, Politics Chapter 4: Attempts at City Self-Empowerment Chapter 5: Rethinking City Constitutional Status Acknowledgments, List of Cases Cited, Index

...Hirschl deserves much praise in bringing to the fore a topic that should not have stayed in the shadows for so long. City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity raises tough questions and forces us to confront them head-on. This is a field-defining book—the results of which are already evident within the short period since this book's launch (and even before).