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Stephen Gardbaum
MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice and Human Rights
B.A. Oxford, 1980
C.P.E. College of Law, London, 1981
M.Sc. Sociology and Politics, University of London, 1985
Ph.D. Political Theory, Columbia, 1989
J.D. Yale, 1990
UCLA Law faculty since 1998
gardbaum@law.ucla.edu |
Stephen Gardbaum is the MacArthur Foundation Professor of International Justice and Human Rights, and the recipient of a 2011-2012 Guggenheim Fellowship in constitutional studies. An internationally recognized constitutional scholar, he received a B.A. with First Class Honors from Oxford University, an M.Sc. from London University, a Ph.D. in political theory from Columbia, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, international human rights, European Union law, and comparative law.
Professor Gardbaum’s scholarship focuses on comparative constitutional law, federalism, and the foundations of liberal legal and political theory. His current research projects are on the comparative structure of constitutional rights and an evaluation of the success in practice of what he previously identified as “the new Commonwealth model of constitutionalism,” a novel form of human rights protection in Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. He was the keynote speaker at the 2009 Protecting Human Rights conference in Australia, part of the major debate in that country about adopting this model through a national human rights act.
Professor Gardbaum’s numerous articles have appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review and the American Journal of Comparative Law. His recent publications include "How Successful and Distinctive is the Human Rights Act? An Expatriate Comparatist's Assessment," Modern Law Review (2011), “A Democratic Defense of Constitutional Balancing,” Law & Ethics of Human Rights (2010), “Reassessing the New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism,” International Journal of Constitutional Law (2010), “Human Rights and International Constitutionalism,” in Jeff Dunoff and Joel Trachtman, eds., Ruling the World? Constitutionalism, International Law and Global Government, Cambridge University Press (2009), and “The Myth and the Reality of American Constitutional Exceptionalism,” Michigan Law Review (2008). His scholarship has been cited by the U.S. and Canadian Supreme Courts, and widely translated.