Richard Albert(@RichardAlbert):🤩 Class today in my course on Constitutional Amendments in the U.S. and the World here at the University of Texas at Austin. 🎉 Our guest is Catarina Santos Botelho @CSantosBotelho, Chair of Constitutional Law at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa @catolicaporto. 📜 Our topic is a fascinating puzzle: how (and whether) to amend unamendable rules. 📑 Some key readings include: 1. Catarina Santos Botelho, "Constitutional Narcissism on the Couch of Psychoanalysis: Constitutional Unamendability in Portugal and Spain," 21 European Journal of Law Reform 346 (2019) 2. Jónatas E.M. Machado, "The Portuguese Constitution of 1976: Half-Life and Decay," in Engineering Constitutional Change (Xenophon Contiades ed., 2012) 3. Peter Suber, The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Logic, Law, Omnipotence, and Change (1990)

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🤩 Class today in my course on Constitutional Amendments in the U.S. and the World here at the University of Texas at Austin. 🎉 Our guest is Catarina Santos Botelho @CSantosBotelho, Chair of Constitutional Law at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa @catolicaporto. 📜 Our topic is a fascinating puzzle: how (and whether) to amend unamendable rules. 📑 Some key readings include: 1. Catarina Santos Botelho, "Constitutional Narcissism on the Couch of Psychoanalysis: Constitutional Unamendability in Portugal and Spain," 21 European Journal of Law Reform 346 (2019) 2. Jónatas E.M. Machado, "The Portuguese Constitution of 1976: Half-Life and Decay," in Engineering Constitutional Change (Xenophon Contiades ed., 2012) 3. Peter Suber, The Paradox of Self-Amendment: A Study of Logic, Law, Omnipotence, and Change (1990)