We have wondered, from time to time, whether this or that feature of American constitutional law also appears in the constitutions of countries with radically different political systems. What, precisely, does the Soviet Constitution say about freedom of speech? Do the Chinese have affirmative action? The answers to such questions tell us something about a larger question that we should discuss more often in class. How much difference does constitutional law make? That question, surely, should be raised in Constitutional Law rather than being relegated to a small, optional course in Comporative Law.
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A 1983 study studied this question.