Who Let the Dogs Out? The Supreme Court, Community Dogs, and the Rise of Biosecurity Constitutionalism

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Who Let the Dogs Out? The Supreme Court, Community Dogs, and the Rise of Biosecurity Constitutionalism

Aditya Anand SINGH

On November 7, 2025, the Supreme Court of India issued an extensive suo motu judgment that orders the removal of community dogs from schools, hospitals, railway stations, bus depots, and highways across the country. A three-justice bench framed the judgment as an attempt to address the issue of street dogs, which they described as a “menace” posing constitutional concerns for public health and biological risk under Article 21, which protects the right to life and liberty. As hundreds of thousands of citizens have taken to the streets in protest, marking one of the most significant animal rights-related social mobilizations in recent history.

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How to Become a Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court in 2025: Be a Political and Religious Man

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How to Become a Justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court in 2025: Be a Political and Religious Man

Mariana Almeida KATO

According to Article 101, para. 1 of the Brazilian Constitution, the President has the authority to appoint justices to the STF, subject to approval by the Senate. In practice, the nomination of a candidate is preceded by an informal co-optation process involving members of the government, Congress, and even STF justices.

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Patriarchy and Binaries: Three Questions on Legal-Strategic Cooperation in the Time of Right-Wing Populism in Western Democracies

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Patriarchy and Binaries: Three Questions on Legal-Strategic Cooperation in the Time of Right-Wing Populism in Western Democracies

Stefano OSELLA

As part of our symposium on Gila Stopler’s Women Rights in Liberal States, Stefano Osella contributes a thought-provoking review. Osella praises the book as ‘timely, erudite, and brave.’ At the same time, Osella encourages Stopler to take her commitment to gender equality beyond a binary assumption of gendered power dynamics.

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The Private Is Still Political; Neutrality Was Never Neutral: Rereading Liberalism and Religion with Gila Stopler

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The Private Is Still Political; Neutrality Was Never Neutral: Rereading Liberalism and Religion with Gila Stopler

Mariana BROCCA

in the second instalment of our symposium on Women’s Rights in Liberal States, Mariana Brocca considers how liberalism has disregarded the political nature of family, region and care in the private sphere, leading to the formation of patriarchal hierarchies within liberal systems.

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Book Symposium – Introduction: Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights

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Book Symposium – Introduction: Women’s Rights in Liberal States: Patriarchy, Liberalism, Religion and the Chimera of Rights

Gila STOPLER

In this opening post, I will briefly introduce the main themes of the book. The following three posts will include responses from the contributors, and those will be followed by a closing post where I will respond to their thoughtful contributions.

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Polarización, Política e Interpretación Constitucional del Derecho Internacional en Guatemala

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Polarización, Política e Interpretación Constitucional del Derecho Internacional en Guatemala

Fabia Fernandes CARVALHO, Monique CAROMIER, Tomás DALY, Mateo Merchán DUQUE, Anna DZIEDZIC, Violeta Moreno-LAX and Elizabeth SHERGOLD

Fabia Fernandes Carvalho, Monique Cormier, Tom Daly, Mateo Merchán Duque, Anna Dziedzic, Violeta Moreno-Lax y Elizabeth Shergold examinan una decisión provisional de la Corte de Constitucionalidad de Guatemala relativa a la interacción entre el derecho constitucional interno y el derecho internacional en un contexto de alta tensión política.

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Polarisation, Politics and the Constitutional Interpretation of International Law in Guatemala

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Polarisation, Politics and the Constitutional Interpretation of International Law in Guatemala

Fabia Fernandes CARVALHO, Monique CAROMIER, Tomás DALY, Mateo Merchán DUQUE, Anna DZIEDZIC, Violeta Moreno-LAX and Elizabeth SHERGOLD

Fabia Fernandes Carvalho, Monique Cormier, Tomás Daly, Mateo Merchán Duque, Anna Dziedzic, Violeta Moreno-Lax and Elizabeth Shergold consider an interim decision of the Constitutional Court of Guatemala on the interplay between domestic constitutional law and international law in a politically-charged situation.

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Between Ethics and Fragility: Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Codifies Ethical Standards

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Between Ethics and Fragility: Ukraine’s Constitutional Court Codifies Ethical Standards

Oleksandr VODIANNIKOV

On 22 July 2025, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU) adopted its first-ever ‘Rules of Professional Ethics’ – a landmark development that places Ukraine among a small but growing group of jurisdictions where constitutional justices are subject to a dedicated, self-contained ethical code.

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Fear of “Supreme Court-ization:” Electing Constitutional Judges in Germany

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Fear of “Supreme Court-ization:” Electing Constitutional Judges in Germany

Daniel HAEFKE

Just one year after the German legislature enshrined several rules regarding the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC; in German: Bundesverfassungsgericht) – previously governed by ordinary law – into the Constitution (making them significantly harder to amend), the politics of judicial appointments to the FCC have erupted into a national spectacle unlike anything seen in the history of the Republic.

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On the Dangerous Road to Instantaneous Democracy: Judicial Remedy and the Dismantling of Institutional Decelerator in Trump v CASA

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On the Dangerous Road to Instantaneous Democracy: Judicial Remedy and the Dismantling of Institutional Decelerator in Trump v CASA

Ming-Sun KUO

The decision of Trump v CASA came at the end of the 2024-25 term of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) just before the Court entered the summer recess. In this much anticipated and already widely discussed decision, SCOTUS curbed federal judges’ power to issue universal injunctions in the States. One core issue gripping the attention of both critics (eg, here and here) and sympathetic readers (eg, here and here) of CASA concerns the court’s classical function to effect judicial remedy in a litigation, while upholding the rule of law: will the SCOTUS-imposed restriction on universal injunctions in CASA render judicial relief less effective and thus undermine the rule of law in the States?

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Balancing Democracy and Federalism: Judicial Imposition of Assent Deadlines on State Governors in India

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Balancing Democracy and Federalism: Judicial Imposition of Assent Deadlines on State Governors in India

Surendra KUMAR

In a parliamentary democracy, the will of the people, as expressed through their elected legislature, is paramount. But what happens when, in a federal system, a centrally appointed constitutional head of state uses procedural delays to effectively veto that will in respect of the elected legislature of a State?

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