Lucie Vodvářková discusses what stands in the way of more women reaching positions of leadership in the Czech judiciary.
Read MoreIn the concluding post of our Palimpsest Constitution symposium, Melissa Crouch explores what Myanmar reveals about constitutional pluralism, legal ethnography and the continuing struggle for civilian rule.
Read MorePelin Baran explores how violations of Article 18 ECHR can be used to measure the limits of the ECtHR’s efficacy in jurisdictions which may be experiencing democratic backsliding.
Read MoreSeán Rainford explores a landmark decision in which the Constitutional Court of Seychelles struck down an amendment to the 1993 Constitution for the first time.
Read MoreYuval Erez examines the legacies of Dorit Beinisch, Miriam Naor and Esther Hayut, who led the Israeli Supreme Court between 2006 and 2023.
Read MoreShohini Sengupta explores constitutional ethnography through Melissa Crouch’s The Palimpsest Constitution, examining colonial legacies, lived experiences & the social life of constitutions.
Read MoreSuhail Rashid Bhat addresses the importance of thinking about constitutions as social phenomena, as explored in Melissa Crouch’s ‘The Palimpsest Constitution’/
Read MoreMailni Sur discusses the significance of Melissa Crouch’s ‘The Palimpsest Constitution’ for frontier zones and groups in Myanmar and Northeast India.
Read MoreProfessor Amy J Cohen writes about Professor Melissa Crouch’s new book, The Palimpsest Constitution, which examines how past constitutional texts matter in the present day. Professor Cohen highlights one of the core messages of the book – that alternative constitutions can have a profound impact on the democratic and legal landscape of a jurisdiction.
Read MoreVisakesa Chandrasekaram discusses Melissa Crouch’s book ‘The Palimpsest Constitution’, highlighting the value of constitutional ethnography for understanding Myanmar’s ‘constitutional despotism’.
Read MoreFrancesco Biagi concludes our symposium on Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring, reflecting on its contributions through three dimensions of constitution-building — drafting, content and enforcement — and drawing broader comparative lessons beyond the Arab region.
Read MoreNawal Lasledj reflects on the the sociopolitical achievements for the Amazigh community and the Tamazight language in the wake of the Arab Spring and what challenges remain in Algeria.
Read MoreJohannes Socher examines external support to constitution-building in Africa, drawing on the engagement of German actors to consider different forms of constitutional assistance and the factors shaping their effectiveness.
Read MoreSami Abdelhalim Saeed continues our symposium on Francesco Biago’s book, Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring, with a case study of Sudan. Echoing Biagi, Saeed argues that the 2019 Constitutional Charter was undermined by the military from the outset.
Read MoreArianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani consider the constitutional implications of and questions posed by Italy’s new rules on police facial recognition.
Read MoreIn this new symposium post, Mohamed Arafa applies Biagi’s framework to analyse Egypt’s constitutional evolution and offers normative recommendations for future Egyptian constitutional reform.
Read MoreProf. Anna Śledzińska-Simon concludes the Safeguarding Democracy Now symposium, arguing for gender equality to be part of militant democracy.
Read MoreTamara El Khoury continues our symposium on Francesco Biagi’s recent book ‘Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring: A Comparative Perspective’ by asking when constitutional courts constrain political power, and when their creation instead legitimates the settlement they operate within.
Read MoreBeatriz Flügel Assad and Yossi Nehushtan mark ten years since the British EU referendum, arguing that the will of the majority has democratic value only where voters are sufficiently autonomous, rational and well-informed — and that Brexit never met that test.
Read MoreWhat role can fourth branch institutions play in militant democracy? Andrej Lang examines their potential and limitations in ‘The Fourth Branch and Militant Democracy’ as part of the Safeguarding Democracy Now Symposium.
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