Constitutional Courts: Constraint or Legitimation? Lessons from the Arab Spring

Constitutional Courts: Constraint or Legitimation? Lessons from the Arab Spring

Tamara El KHOURY

Tamara 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.

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Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring: Global Comparative Perspectives

Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring: Global Comparative Perspectives

Alemayehu Fentaw WELDEMARIAM

Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam opens our symposium on Francesco Biagi’s recent book ‘Constitution-Building After the Arab Spring: A Comparative Perspective’ by reflecting on its central arguments and the questions left open in the decades since the revolution altered the constitutional structures of several Arab countries.

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