Spring 2007:
Security and Liberty in Thailand.
Since it’s a Monday, many Thai residents in Bangkok are wearing their ‘Long Live the King’ polo shirts, and the students in my class tonight are no different: I face a sea of yellow to talk about American legal practice relating to the 4th Amendment’s protections against unreasonable search and seizure. The lessons of the Framers, and of our constitutional cases, make for an awkward discussion, since these Thai law students are living through what we would call a “constitutional moment” as their predominantly Buddhist, peaceful culture struggles to reconcile recently imposed martial law, their nominally democratic constitutional monarchy and an increasingly divided society. They surely have as much to teach me as I have to offer them.
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