South Sudan descended into conflict in December 2013 due to a lack of an effective constitutional settlement coupled with a longstanding rivalry among the strongmen of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement. The conflict was halted through a peace deal…
Read MoreAmending the Constitution of the Slovak Republic ("the Constitution") is a relatively frequent phenomenon. The most recent amendment came in mid-June, during the ongoing pre-election campaign for the parliamentary election to be held on 30 September 2023. The June Amendment was approved by the votes of 111 out of…
Read MoreEquality is a central principle in constitutional law yet it raises a plethora of conceptual and practical challenges for jurists, theorists, legal scholars, and political scientists. To explore the various facets of equality, the IACL held a roundtable on “The Principle of Equality: New and Old Challenges,” which was hosted…
Read MoreRecently, the Indonesian Constitutional Court has been under increased scrutiny from the public, due to various issues both inside and surrounding the Court. There is a growing feeling of public dissatisfaction after the recently appointed Justice Guntur Hamzah…
Read MoreLa Cour constitutionnelle de la Fédération de Russie (la Cour, la Cour constitutionnelle) a rejeté les plaintes des requérants qui contestaient l'article 20.3.3 du Code des infractions administratives sur le discrédit de l'armée Russe. L'article de discrédit a été adopté par la Douma d'État après le début de la guerre…
Read MoreWorld Comparative Law, a long-time collaboration partner of the IACL blog, opens its decades-old archive on Twitter. Since 1968, scholars have written about state formation, postcolonial justice, and constitutional and administrative law in the Global South…
Read MoreAs Guatemala prepares for its general elections on June 25, a worrying pattern has surfaced: the Constitutional Court (CC), initially mandated in 1985 to prevent excesses of the political branches, has progressively become a decisive player…
Read MoreDespite Matthew 6:24, many of us in academia are trying to export our theoretical ideas into applied politics. For us, in Greece, it is a tradition. One of the fathers of Greek Constitutional Law, Alexandros Svolos, urged us to be not only savants…
Read MoreThis blog symposium and our VRÜ/WLC special issue featured country studies that examined the relationship between law and democratic backsliding in Brazil, India, and South Africa (BISA), linked to comparative efforts considering Hungary and the US…
Read MoreA week after Republicans won control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2022 election (while Democrats increased their Senate majority), Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. At the moment…
Read MoreIn her recent contribution to a special issue on autocratic legalism in Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ)/World Comparative Law, Kim Scheppele has written reflectively on her earlier seminal contributions to the debate about the turn against constitutional democracy. She posits…
Read MoreDuring his inauguration on 1 January 2023, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva declared that “democracy was the greatest winner” of the presidential elections that ousted Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro was a threat to the rule of law and to democracy, even if his playbook varied…
Read More2019 should have been a great year for Brazilian academics. Their lives had not yet been disrupted by the pandemic, the exchange rate between the Brazilian real and the US dollar was reasonable, and there were still public funding sources for research—all of which…
Read MoreInterconstitutionalism focuses on techniques and practices that help keep alive the judicial interpretations and values of past constitutions. Although the phenomenon might best be explored in federal states, where there is communication between public law at the federal and state levels…
Read MoreIn their pioneering work, Interconstitutionalism, Jason Mazzone and Cem Tecimer provide an illuminating account of an interpretive practice involving “the use of a polity’s antecedent constitution(s) to generate meaning for that same polity’s current constitution”…
Read MoreThe essence of the parliamentary form of government lies in the need of the executive to obtain the confidence of the parliament to exercise its powers. As a rule, the executive is not directly elected, but derives its legitimacy from the parliament…
Read MoreIn their new article, Jason Mazzone and Cem Tecimer explore a fascinating aspect of constitutional interpretation. Interconstitutionalism involves the use of previous constitutions to generate meaning for the current constitution, a practice the authors…
Read MoreThose who are familiar with safaris in Africa know that spotting a cheetah is extremely hard. It requires plenty of time and patience, as well as a good dose of luck. Indeed, cheetahs are significantly rarer than other savannah predators, including lions. And when…
Read MoreIt is amazing to see how a one-word title, ‘Interconstitutionalism’, can prompt two authors to write an 81-page research article. The brevity of the article’s title certainly arouses interest, and the content does not disappoint the reader. The richness…
Read More“No set of legal institutions or prescriptions,” Robert Cover famously wrote, “exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution there is an epic.” In their excellent new article, “Interconstitutionalism,” Jason Mazzone and Cem…
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