Vlad F. Perju
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S.J.D. 2007
Assistant Professor, Boston College Law School
Dissertation
Constitutional Reasoning in Pluralist Societies: A Theory of the Foundations of Contemporary Constitutionalism
My dissertation investigates how successful modern constitutional structures and forms of reasoning are in dealing with the problem of deep and legitimate disagreement that characterizes contemporary democracies. I approach these questions from within a global constitutionalist framework, and advance a theory of the normative foundations of cross-constitutional comparisons and exchanges.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Constitutional Law and Theory/ Comparative Constitutionalism, with Professor Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Legal Theory, with Professor Frederick Schauer, Kennedy School of Government
- Political Philosophy, with Professor Joshua Cohen, MIT
- Sociology of Law, with Professor Lewis Sargentich, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Constitutional Law and Theory
- Comparative Constitutionalism
- Legal, Moral and Social Theory
- European Legal Thought
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2002-Present
- Harvard Law School, LLM Program 2001-2002
- European Academy of Legal Theory, Brussels, Belgium: L.L.M. (summa cum laude) 2001
- Faculty of Law, University of Bucharest L.L.B. 2001
- University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne 2000, Maitrise in European Law (cum laude)
Appointments and Fellowships
- Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Kennedy School of Government, 2005-2006, Graduate Fellow
- Harvard University, Project on Justice, Welfare and Economics, 2004-2005, Research Fellow
- Harvard Law School, 2005, Byse Fellow
- Harvard Law School, 2004-2005, Graduate Fellow, Co-coordinator of the Graduate Forum in Comparative Constitutionalism
- Harvard College, 2003-2004, Teaching Fellow in the Core Curriculum
- Harvard Law School, 2003-2004, Teaching Assistant for Comparative Constitutional Law
- Harvard Law School, 2003-2004, Graduate Fellow, Law Teaching Colloquium Coordinator
- Harvard Extension School, 2002-2003, Teaching Assistant for Makers of the Modern Mind
Representative Publications
- The Constitutional Authority of Foreign Law (forthcoming, 2006 Utah Law Review)
- Comparative Constitutionalism and the Making of A New World Order, Constellations 12 (4): 464-486 (2005)
- Ran Hirschl’s Towards Juristocracy: The Origins and Consequences of the New Constitutionalism, Modern Law Review 68 (6): 1038 (2005) (book review)
- Questioning the Core/Periphery Distinction in Constitutional Balancing (forthcoming, 2007)
- "Constitutionalism” and “Levels of Generality in Constitutional Argumentation” (Entries in the World Encyclopedia of Jurisprudence, Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law (forthcoming, 2007))
Additional Information
- Languages: English, French, Romanian