His recent scholarship has focused on comparative constitutional transitions and constitutional design. Professor Varol is the author of 10 law review articles published or forthcoming in academic journals such as the California Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, Harvard International Law Journal, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Texas International Law Journal, and Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He is the only scholar to twice receive the American Society of Comparative Law’s Younger Comparativists Prize. Professor Varol’s recent publication, Temporary Constitutions, was selected as one of the best three papers in the 2014 AALS Scholarly Papers Competition and awarded “Honorable Mention.”