The meaning and application of Islamic Sharia in the Egyptian legal system is one of the most controversial aspects of modern constitutional law in Egypt. With its landmark judgment in 1985, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt gave some fundamental answers…
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During the last century, Colombia and Germany experienced conflicts that had a deep impact on them and deprived millions of their land. Germany had to face the issue of land restitution after the Second World War (see inter alia Law No. 59 of the Military Government of Germany, US Area of Control) and after the Cold War…
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On 15 and 16 May, Chilean citizens were called to the polls to elect a Constitutional Convention, after a postponement due to a rise of both coronavirus cases and hospitalisations. Chile’s current Constitution of 1980 (“the Pinochet Constitution”) was a product of an authoritarian regime…
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Following years of political impasse and a presidential vacuum between 2014 and 2016, a government was formed in Lebanon as part of a deal to end the stalemate. The new Government set itself to begin addressing a number of backlogged policy matters…
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On July 23rd 2020, the all-male Grand Chamber of the Turkish Constitutional Court issued its decision on the case of R.G. This progressive judgment, published on the Official Gazette on September 10th 2020, declared that the procrastination of the decision on a victim’s request for terminating…
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The recently released recommendations of Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on gender equality contain a raft of radical measures to achieve a more equal Irish society. The Assembly’s final report is expected to be transmitted to government and published in June 2021, bringing to a conclusion…
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After three previous symposia (on the Commonwealth, South and Central America and Asia), I am especially pleased to announce the fourth symposium of the ‘Constitutional Landmark Judgments Project.’ This symposium concentrates on the Middle East and North Africa region…
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Imagine that there is a colony and an empire. The colony is a colony because it is subject to imperial laws, and the empire is an empire because it enacts and applies its laws in the colony. One day, someone in the empire suggests that…
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