Jason MAZZONE & Cam TECIMER

The U.S. Constitution has lasted 234 years. That makes it an anomaly. Globally, constitutional replacement, not endurance, is the norm. As Elkins, Ginsburg and Melton report, the average life expectancy of a national constitution is a mere 19 years. This rate of turnover invites…

David BILCHITZ & Surya DEVA

We read with interest the recent IACL blog post by Anujay Shrivastava, ‘India’s Supreme Court Judgment on “Horizontal Application” of Fundamental Rights: An “Unconstitutional Informal Constitutional Change”?’ In that post, Shrivastava argues…

Stephen Tierney

The Scottish Government’s Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill seeks to make it easier for people to change their legal gender. To this end it attempts to amend the Gender Recognition Act 2004, a statute passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom…

Amin LABBAFI

Cities have turned into global actors that can influence the landscape of the global legal order. There is, nowadays, an abundance of international city networks, such as C40 Cities, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), etc. These networks mimic..

Matthieu FEBVRE-ISSALY

En Colombie, le juge d’un tribunal de Carthagène, Juan Manuel Padilla García s’est rendu célèbre pour avoir rendu, le 30 janvier 2023, une décision dont il a dit qu’elle avait été rédigée à l’aide de ChatGPT. Le logiciel est lui-même devenu célèbre…

César LANDA 

In the last two hundred years of republican life in Peru, thirteen constitutions have been adopted. However, this has not guaranteed the exercise of constitutionally restrained power because these political charters were issued according to the needs of the incumbent ruler. Some of these changes…

El Perú ha recibido atención internacional por la grave y persistente crisis constitucional en la que se encuentra en los últimos años. Desde el 2017, dos presidentes peruanos renunciaron y dos más fueron destituidos por el Congreso de la República. Por su parte…

Emmanuel Saffa ABDULAI

Constitutional amendment is often understood to be geared towards improving a nation's political, social and economic state, yet, as we know, this is not always the case. As in many other countries, in Sierra Leone, some constitutional amendments…

Sergiy PANASYUK

Four days after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy signed an application for membership in the European Union (EU) under a special fast-track procedure. It was argued that this step would aid the country…

Vanessa MACDONNELL

Conor Casey and David Kenny’s article, “The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law,” investigates the growing influence of government lawyers from a comparative perspective. Drawing…

Zelalem Shiferaw WOLDEMICHAEL

On November 2, 2022, the federal government of Ethiopia and the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed an African Union-led peace agreement to end their ongoing conflict since November 2020, which has brought dire consequences…

Aileen KAVANAGH

In this excellent article, Conor Casey and David Kenny delve into the dynamics of Executive legal advice in Ireland, the UK, Canada and the United States.  Eschewing the temptation to offer an overarching taxonomy, or to prescribe an optimal model…

Emiliano Martin VITALIANI & Juan Diego ARREGUI

Ecuador voted on the fifth of February for its sectional elections but, with them, the President called a referendum to vote on eight questions. These questions had been submitted for judicial review by the Constitutional Court. Generally speaking, changes to the Ecuadorian…

Juliano Zaiden BENVINDO

Casey’s and Kenny’s The Gatekeepers: Executive Lawyers and the Executive Power in Comparative Constitutional Law provides a fascinating discussion of possibly one of the most unexplored topics in comparative constitutional law when it comes to checks and balances…

Paul FISHER

It is over three years since President Putin’s poslanie of 15 January 2020, where, in an address to both chambers of the Federal Assembly, he initiated a series of amendments to the Russian Constitution. A great many things have happened since then…

Adrian VERMEULE

Professors Casey and Kenny have given us an admirably clear-minded treatment of high executive branch lawyers. The subject is a difficult and elusive one. The relevant institutions are informal and ill-defined; for the most part, in the four constitutional…

Gonzalo CANDIA, Tom Gerald DALY, Anna DZIEDZIC and Alejandra OVALLE

In October 2020, following the nationwide protests of 2019-2020, a majority of almost 80 per cent voted in favour of a process to rewrite Chile’s constitution. The new Constitution would replace the 1980 Constitution promulgated under the authoritarian Pinochet regime…

Hilary HOGAN

In a field such as constitutional law, it is unusual for scholars to break entirely new ground. Yet this is precisely what Conor Casey and David Kenny have accomplished in their sustained examination of executive lawyers, highlighting their role as key constitutional…

Roda MUSHKAT

This is a critical juncture in Israel’s political and judicial evolution. A long established, to a considerable extent internally rather than externally, judicial order is, depending on the outcome, likely to undergo either radical or near radical surgery…

Conor McCORMICK

In an influential contribution to the Harvard Law Review in 1972, Guido Calabresi and Arthur Douglas Melamed caveated their paper with the following memorable disclaimer: “[a]s Professor Harry Wellington is fond of saying about many discussions of law…”