🤩 Class today in my course on Constitutional Amendments in the U.S. and the World here at the University of Texas at Austin. 📜 Our topic is how to design a constitutional amendment procedure. 📑 Some key readings include: 1. Xenophon Contiades & Alkmene Fotiadou, Models of Constitutional Change, in Engineering Constitutional Change: A Comparative Perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA (Xenophon Contiades ed., 2013) 2. Jon Elster, Ulysses Unbound: Studies in Rationality, Precommitment, and Constraints (2000) 3. Jan-Erik Lane, Constitutions and Political Theory (2d ed. 2011) 4. Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy (2d ed. 2010) 5. Donald S. Lutz, Principles of Constitutional Design (2006) 6. Dawn Oliver & Carlo Fusaro, Changing Constitutions: Comparative Analysis, in How Constitutions Change: A Comparative Study (Dawn Oliver & Carlo Fusaro eds., 2011) 7. Bjørn Erik Rasch & Roger D. Congleton, Amendment Procedures and Constitutional Stability, in Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy (Roger D. Congleton & Birgitta Swedenborg eds., 2006). 8. Edward Schneier, Crafting Constitutional Democracies: The Politics of Institutional Design (2006)