Symposium: Constitutional Landmark Judgments in Asia

Eleonora Bottini

University of Caen, Normandy

One year ago, this Blog hosted the first symposium in a series, launching the ‘Constitutional Landmark Judgments Project’ with posts commenting on five landmark cases from jurisdictions in the Commonwealth. It was followed earlier this year by another symposium about judgments in Central and South America. Looking back at constitutional scholars’ responses to the challenge to select and comment on a landmark judgment of their jurisdiction of reference, an impressionistic view of what this concept means is starting to appear.

The journey around the world continues with a new symposium about Asian apex courts and their most remarkable judgments. Scholars from South Korea, Hong Kong, Myanmar, Singapore and Japan have accepted an invitation to contribute to the project (respectively Jeong-In Yun, Surabhi Chopra, Melissa Crouch, Swati Javeri and Akiko Ejima). I would like to thank them as well as the IACL Blog’s team of editors for believing in the project since its very start.

To introduce this symposium, Yaniv Roznai reflects on the relationship between landmark judgments and constitutional revolutions, the topic of his and Gary Jacobsohn’s latest book. I am grateful to him for this rich theoretical contribution to the project.

Eleonora Bottini is Professor of Public Law at the University of Caen Normandy.

Suggested citation: Eleonora Bottini, ‘Constitutional Landmark Judgments in Asia’ IACL-IADC Blog (1 December 2020) https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/constitutional-landmark-judgments-in-asia/2020/12/1/constitutional-landmark-judgments-in-asia