12. Aug, 2023

Constitutional papers

My papers in English on constitutional matters, which grew out of my work on the Constitutional Council in Iceland from April to June 2011.

Constitutional moments: Chile and Iceland, Social Europe, 22 October 2022.

The Anatomy of Constitution Making: From Denmark in 1849 to Iceland in 2017, in Gabriel Negretto (ed.), Redrafting Constitutions in Democratic Regimes, Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Reversing the retreat of democracy: The case of Iceland, VoxEU, 19 February 2020.

Iceland´s ongoing constitutional fight, Verfassungsblog, 29 November 2018.

Chain of Legitimacy: Constitution Making in Iceland, in Jon Elster, Roberto Gargarella, Vatsal Naresh og Bjørn Erik Rasch (eds.), Constituent Assemblies, Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Introduction to The New Icelandic Constitution: How Did It Come About? Where Is It?, Iðunn, Reykjavík 2018.

Introduction, with David Carrillo and Jón Ólafsson, The Icelandic Federalist PapersBerkeley Public Policy Press, Berkeley, California, 2018.

Digital Tools and the Derailment of Iceland´s New Constitution, with Anne Meuwese, in Corien Prins, Peter Lindseth, Monica Guisse and Colette Cuijpers (eds.), Digital Democracy in a Globalized World, Edward Elgar, 2017.

Iceland´s new constitution is not solely a local concern, Challenge, December 2016.

Iceland’s citizen constitution: The window remains wide open, Verfassungsblog, 6 July 2016.

Constitution on Ice, in Valur Ingimundarson, Philipe Urfalino og Irma Erlingsdóttir (eds.), Iceland’s Financial Crisis: The Politics of Blame, Protest, and Reconstruction, RoutledgeLondon, England, 2016.

Iceland: Window remains wide-open, Verfassungsblog, 14 April 2016.

Making a democratic constitution, Democratic Audit UK, 28 October 2014.

From collapse to constitution: The case of Iceland, in Public Debt, Global Governance and Economic Dynamism, ed. Luigi PaganettoSpringer, 2013.

Constitution making in action: The case of Iceland, VoxEU, 1 November 2012.

Constitutions: Financial crisis can lead to change, Challenge, September 2012.

Finance and constitutions, VoxEU, 11 April 2012.

Crowds and constitutions, VoxEU, 13 October 2011.

From crisis to constitution, VoxEU, 11. October 2011.