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[Editor’s note: this is the final post commenting on Michaela Hailbronner’s new book, The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

I am very grateful to Francesca Pou Giménez, Roberto Gargarella and David Landau for taking the time to read and engage so generously with my book.

[Editor’s note: this is the third of four posts commenting on Michaela Hailbronner’s new book, The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

Michaela Hailbronner’s The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law is a brilliant and important book, one which will inform debates about constitutional theory and judicial role for a long time to come.

[Editor’s note: this is the second of four posts commenting on Michaela Hailbronner’s new book, The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

Michaela Hailbronner’s new book has an evocative, almost filmic title that gestures towards a broad horizon of human interests: “The failures of others.”

[Editor’s note: this is the first of four posts commenting on Michaela Hailbronner’s new book, The Failures of Others: Justifying Institutional Expansion in Comparative Public and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

Acting When Others Aren’t. Arguments from Failure in Comparative Public and International Law, by Michaela Hailbronner, is a very important work that updates and refines one of the most interesting discussions in contemporary constitutional theory.

[[Editor’s note: this is the final post in the symposium on Gila Stopler’s new book, Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion, and the Chimera of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

I am immensely grateful to profs. Upham, Rimalt, Prieto-Rudolphy, Palazzo, and Mancini for their careful and thorough reading of my book and for their discerning and generous commentaries.

[Editor’s note: this is the fifth of six posts commenting on Gila Stopler’s new book, Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion, and the Chimera of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

In Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights, Gila Stopler offers a powerful feminist critique of liberal democracy by exposing how women’s rights are structurally undermined through the liberal state’s accommodation of majority religions.

[Editor’s note: this is the fourth of six posts commenting on Gila Stopler’s new book, Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion, and the Chimera of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

Gila Stopler’s Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights offers a powerful analysis of the relationship between patriarchy, religion, and political liberalism, and of the enduring harm this relationship has caused to women.

[Editor’s note: this is the third of six posts commenting on Gila Stopler’s new book, Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion, and the Chimera of Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2025)].

In Women’s Rights in Liberal States. Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights, Gila Stopler discusses the global rise of religious and far right-wing movements, pointing out an unlikely (but not exclusive) culprit: liberalism, or the liberal state, which has let patriarchal beliefs flourish, unchallenged, in the private sphere.