Constitutional Engagement in a Transnational Era

This book advances the argument that constitutional interpreters (largely courts) have adopted three different positions - convergence, resistance and engagement - towards transnational relationships, each of which has distinctive doctrinal and interpretive aspects. Vicki Jackson argues that for the United States, a position of engagement - rather than resistance or convergence - is the most appropriate approach. The book suggests that constitutions, which have always served as mediating institutions between the national and the global, will continue to do so but in a more complex and porous relationship with transnational law, and in ways that support an engagement model more broadly.