Sujit Choudhry last month returned from a trip to Tunisia with 16 members of the recently established Constitutional Transitions Clinic at New York University School of Law, which he directs. Tunisian protesters triggered the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, when they drove a 23-year president from office.
When the United States’ Founding Fathers met in Philadelphia in 1787 to produce what was then one of the world’s earliest written constitutions, they had few places to turn for advice. Choudhry hopes that the research produced by the NYU clinic will provide ‘back-office’ real time support to proliferating constitution drafting efforts around the world like those under way in Tunisia. The students journeyed there to discuss their research.
