This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman\'s path-breaking book, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law .
Some advance Ackerman\'s theory, others attack it, and still others refine it - but all agre.
The book also features a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to the contributors\' essays.
This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman\'s path-breaking book, Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law