I specialize on issues of founding and refounding, popular constitutionalism, and indigenous rights and social movements in Latin America.  I am interested in examining the mechanisms and challenges involved in the creation and recreation of political orders, the significance of constitution-making and the law in processes of extraordinary politics, and the role of popular power and "the people" in enacting and legitimating radical political change.  I recently published a book on foundings titled Beyond Origins: Rethinking Founding in an Age of Constitutional Democracy​ (Oxford University Press 2017).  Following on this book, I am working on a new project on indigenous protest and resistance against natural resource extraction focusing on the cases of Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru.