| The endurance of national constitutions Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 764 | 2009 |
| Democratic compromise: A latent variable analysis of ten measures of regime type D Pemstein, SA Meserve, J Melton Political Analysis 18 (4), 426-449, 2010 | 535 | 2010 |
| Does the constitutional amendment rule matter at all? Amendment cultures and the challenges of measuring amendment difficulty T Ginsburg, J Melton International Journal of Constitutional Law 13 (3), 686-713, 2015 | 123 | 2015 |
| On the evasion of executive term limits T Ginsburg, J Melton, Z Elkins Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 52, 1807, 2010 | 111 | 2010 |
| Does de jure judicial independence really matter? A reevaluation of explanations for judicial independence J Melton, T Ginsburg Journal of Law and Courts 2 (2), 187-217, 2014 | 107 | 2014 |
| Characteristics of national constitutions, version 2.0 Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton Comparative Constitutions Project, 29-42, 2014 | 106* | 2014 |
| Baghdad, Tokyo, Kabul...: Constitution making in occupied states Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 49, 1139, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| The endurance of national constitutions T Ginsburg, Z Elkins, J Melton Available at SSRN 2190476, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| The Content ofAuthoritarian Constitutions Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes, 141, 2014 | 38 | 2014 |
| On the interpretability of law: Lessons from the decoding of national constitutions J Melton, Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, K Leetaru British Journal of Political Science, 399-423, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| A review of Iceland’s draft constitution Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton The Comparative Constitutions Project 14, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Do constitutional rights matter? The relationship between de jure and de facto human rights protection J Melton Working Paper, 2013 | 26* | 2013 |
| Constitute: The world’s constitutions to read, search, and compare Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton, R Shaffer, JF Sequeda, DP Miranker Journal of web semantics 27, 10-18, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| Comments on Law and Versteeg, The Declining Influence of the U.S. Constitution Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton New York University Law Review 87 (6), 2088-2101, 2012 | 20* | 2012 |
| Does De Jure Judicial Independence Really Matter?: A Reevaluation of Explanations for Judicial Independence J Melton, T Ginsburg Law School, University of Chicago, 2012 | 15 | 2012 |
| Magna Carta and its modern legacy R Hazell, J Melton Cambridge University Press, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Chronology of Constitutional Events, Version 1.1 Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton Comparative Constitutions Project. http://www …, 2010 | 10 | 2010 |
| Constitutions and election management S Chernykh, Z Elkins, J Melton, T Ginsburg Advancing electoral integrity, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Lessons from the decoding and coding of national constitutions Z Elkins, T Ginsburg, J Melton Working Group on Law and Democracy, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Magna Carta… Holy Grail J Melton, R Hazell Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy, 3-19, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
Tom GinsburgLeo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago; American BarVerified email at uchicago.edu
