Seána GLENNON

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…

Eleonora BOTTINI

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…

Joel I. COLÓN-RÍOS

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…

Rohan EDRISINHA

Although Professor Tarun Khaitan states that the main purpose of his thought-provoking article is theoretical rather than practical, my observations are based on the experience of my own country, Sri Lanka, and some other countries I am familiar with…

Christina Duffy PONSA-KRAUS

Joel I. Colón-Ríos’s recent blog “Scholars and the Politics of Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Status” makes a contribution to the latest round of debate over Puerto Rican decolonization. Professor Colón-Ríos takes aim at a letter to U.S. congressional leadership…

Oran DOYLE

Tarunabh Khaitan has provided us with a rich and multi-layered account of key questions in constitutional design. Early constitutional responses to concerns over democratic backsliding often focused on institutions and mechanisms…

Steffen GANGHOF

Tarunabh Khaitan (2021) has written an excellent and rich contribution to an important interdisciplinary debate on democracy’s constitutional design. While some of his preferred design choices are close to what we find in Australia…

Giuseppe MARTINICO

Recent comparative research has shown how populisms have tried to politicise the pandemic (as they usually do with crises), but they have not entirely managed to benefit from the public health crisis. The pandemic has, on the one hand, revealed some of the fallacies of populists…

Swati JHAVERI

Tarunabh Khaitan’s characteristically emphatically written paper – Balancing Accountability and Effectiveness: A Case for Moderated Parliamentarism - is a complex and layered account of the blind spots of constitutional and political scientists…

Lima AKTAR

Can an amendment, which is brought to declare the unamendability of certain parts of the constitution, be itself found to violate the principle of constitutional amendability? This curious case has occurred in Bangladesh, where an amendment…

Sergio VERDUGO

Tarunabh Khaitan’s new article is an important addition to the rare constitutional literature combining the key factors that explain the optimal functioning of the political system, i.e., political parties, legislative-executive relations, and electoral rules…

Joel I. COLÓN-RÍOS

For the first time in years, Puerto Rico’s (PR) relationship with the United States has become a live political issue in the US Congress. Two bills, each seeking an end to PR’s territorial status, have been presented. The first bill, The Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Act…

Marew Abebe SALEMOT

This is a commentary on Article 25(3) of the Draft Criminal Procedure and Evidence Law (the Draft Law), which the Attorney General of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia distributed to stakeholders to solicit feedback. Article 25(3) of the Draft Law…

Benjamin REILLY

Tarunabh Khaitan’s proposal for what he calls “moderated parliamentarism” is convincing. Like many political scientists, his focus is on ensuring that the institutions of representative democracy deliver for the interests of all people, rather than a sub-section…

Aziz Z. HUQ

If Tarun Khaitan wasn’t such a nice chap, you’d really have to dislike him. Having written perhaps the most important book on discrimination law of the past decade or so, he has now turned his attention to the constitutional design of electoral institutions…

Tarun KHAITAN

I am very grateful to the IACL Blog for organising this symposium on my forthcoming paper in defence of ‘moderated parliamentarism’ that will appear in the Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law. In this article, I bring two key issues in constitutional studies…

Bruno CERETTA

The famous debate between Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt about who should act as guardian of the Constitution is, indeed, well known. While the Austrian jurist argued that this responsibility should lie with the Constitutional Court, the German jurist countered…

Markus P. BEHAM

Any history of constitutions must concern the historical foundation and development of constitutional instruments or, more broadly, the formation of basic rules of governance. Scholarly interest in the topic can look back on a long tradition of legal historians tracing…

Sergei BELOV

In this post, I present the substance of the Russian constitutional amendments, focusing on those which attracted the most attention within Russian society – both among legal experts and in public forums, such as social and mainstream media….

Sergei BELOV

In this post, I present the procedural issues relating to the adoption of the Russian constitutional amendments in 2020, which met the most heated debates in Russian society and among legal experts.

All proposals for constitutional amendment must go through a standard procedure…