Constitutional law is usually defined as a body of law regulating the most important social relations in a state, especially the organization of public power…
Read MoreMuch ink has been spilt on the three ‘historic and unprecedented’ judgments handed down by the European Court of Human Rights on 9 April 2024 on mitigating climate change, and the subsequent positive obligation of member states that flows from them…
Read MoreLast month in Slovakia, a legal-political oxymoron unfolded. The Slovak President and parliamentary opposition were striving to maintain the legislative status quo of the Penal Code, while the governing coalition was pushing for a change in the penal system…
Read MoreOn 8th March 2023 (International Women’s Day), the French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to have le droit à l’interruption volontaire de grossesse (right to abortion) enshrined in the Constitution…
Read MoreThe Republic of Peru, during its 223 years of independence, has operated for 185 years with a bicameral parliament. Amidst times of crisis or reform – with sometimes liberal and at other times conservative governments…
Read MoreThe political context has created an opportunity for the Slovak Constitutional Court to become a globally important example of judicial resistance to autocratization. A Constitutional Court as powerful as the Slovak one faces few formal constraints on its adjudicative practice…
Read MoreOn 15 March 2024, the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, indicated in a speech in the city of Cali that if his government’s legislative proposals were blocked in the Congress, the way forward was a National Constituent Assembly…
Read MoreFacing the real risk of physical destruction of the nation and losing its statehood after a full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, both the Ukrainian nation and the Ukrainian government mobilized all sources to resist the enemy…
Read MoreOn 28 November 2023, the Constitution of Albania celebrated its 25th anniversary. Except for the 1946 Constitution, which established the communist regime in Albania, no other Constitution in Albania’s history has reached a quarter-century…
Read MoreOn 15 Feb 2024, a 5-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) unanimously struck down the Electoral Bond (EB) Scheme 2018 as unconstitutional. The Scheme allowed individuals and corporations to make anonymous donations to political parties…
Read MoreChile’s 2022 and 2023 constitution-making processes attracted considerable attention across the world. Even though the two draft Constitutions were rejected by referendum, we think that in terms of environmental issues, they offer instructive examples of two contrasting approaches to these issues…
Read MoreThe concept of dereification in animal law is widely acknowledged as a pivotal shift in determining the legal status of non-human animals. It moves away from perceiving animals merely as insentient property and recognizes their capacity for suffering…
Read MoreConstitutional animal law is a relatively new discipline that has emerged in legal scholarship in recent years. It focuses specifically on constitutional norms relating to the protection of animals…
Read MoreI applaud Ben Davy for approaching the animal rights issue from an unusual angle. Most theories of animal rights are under-inclusive and logically incoherent—they apply to domesticated pets but not wild animals, mammals but not insects…
Read MoreIn the constitutional law of many Western countries (e.g., the member states of the Council of Europe, the member states of the European Union, and the United States of America), non-human animals share the same fate as refrigerators…
Read MoreNot long after the defeat of Napoleon, Belgium declared its independence on 4 October 1830. One year later, in 1831, the Belgian Constitution was adopted. Now, almost two centuries later, the Belgian Constitution is on the verge of a new historic event…
Read MoreThe burgeoning movement advocating legal personhood for animals is gaining momentum, aiming to elevate animals from mere property to beings with protective rights. Legal personhood, a concept that has evolved over time, has been granted to various entities…
Read MoreOf all fields of law, constitutional law may be the field that is traditionally most focused on the human individual as the one and only centre of concern. It is therefore particularly surprising that, over the last decades…
Read MoreForeign judges on constitutional courts are not exclusive to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). But BiH, along with Kosovo and Cyprus, is a particular example of foreign judges serving in a post-conflict society as a democratic peace-building and power-sharing mechanism…
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