Saeed and Weldemariam discuss the instability of the African Union anti-coup rules in Sudan, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, and Mali.
Read MoreKonstantin Voropaev développe les raisons de l’incompatibilité de la peine de mort avec les principes constitutionnels israéliens, en dépit de la loi de 2026 sur la peine de mort pour terrorisme.
Read MoreNicholas Aroney, Renato Costa, and Bruno Santos Cunha write about how federalism has been used as a tool of autocratic consolidation in Russia, Brazil, and Ethiopia.
Read MoreRan Hirschl, whose scholarship relentlessly pressed the discipline to examine its own methodological foundations, left behind a body of work that fundamentally altered how scholars think about what comparative constitutional law is, what it does, and what it ought to aspire to.
Read MoreTímea Drinóczi develops a framework based on EU case law and Venice Commission standards for justifying the removal of powerful institutional actors who could block constitutional reconstruction after democratic backsliding. This framework is applied to Hungary to assess whether removing the President or Constitutional Court judges could be constitutionally justified.
Read MoreIn our latest post, Dr Sourya Bandyopadhyay critically engages with the judicial performance of the Supreme Court of India in the ongoing process of the ‘Special Intensive Revision’.
Read MoreIsfar Tehami Sarker examines Bangladesh’s 2024 annulment of Article 7B as a constitutional turning point, marking a shift from rigid textual unamendability toward a revived, judicially grounded interpretive model.
Read MoreFrancisco Javier Romero Caro and Petra Malfertheiner analyze Italy's March 2026 judicial referendum, examining the government's unexpected defeat and what it means for Meloni's coalition and the future of constitutional reform in Italy.
Read MoreFaith Gakii argues that anthropocentric environmental rights can be interpreted using ecocentric reasoning to extend constitutional protection to animals. Recent cases from Brazil, Turkey, and the Inter‑American system show how this vehicle‑and‑method pairing creates new, underused pathways for animal protection within existing constitutional frameworks.
Read MoreIn this final contribution to our symposium on The Language of Comparative Constitutional Law: Questioning Hegemonies, Łucja Biel, Hanem El-Farahaty and Francesca Seracini consider how linguistic methods in comparative law can enrich comparative analysis.
Read MoreDr Joelle Barnes explores how, 30 years after adopting a democratic constitution, Seychelles still grapples with strong presidential power—while unexpected actors like ombuds institutions and independent media offer hope.
Read MoreIn the latest post in the IACL Blog’s symposium on The Language of Comparative Constitutional Law, Claudia Marchese reflects on the value of multilingualism in constitutional law. She explores how linguistic choices shape power relations and argues that multilingualism—supported by comparative law and legal-linguistic expertise—can foster inclusion, democratic participation, and peaceful coexistence.
Read MorePetra Butler and Sam Macintosh explore comparative integration models -EU, ASEAN, MERCOSUR- and constitutional preconditions for building a Pacific Common Market.
Read MoreDr Nomfundo Ramalekana explores how Ubuntu can be used in the South African Constitution and jurisprudence as part of the project of decolonising South African scholarship and practice of law.
Read MoreIn the latest post in our symposium on Small State Constitutionalism, Jennifer Corrin discusses the complex judicial architecture of Niue, issues of patriating laws, and potential reforms to land dispute resolution.
Read MoreIn the latest addition to the IACL Blog’s new symposium on ‘The Language of Comparative Constitutional Law’, Professors Elisa Bertolini & Graziella Romeo (Bologna) unpack why the Italian term Forma di Stato is untranslatable into English and what that tells us about linguistic hegemony in comparative constitutional law and scholarship.
Read MoreChristos Papastylianos examines how ‘smallness’ shaped the constitutional breakdown of Cyprus in 1963, from elite‑driven constitution‑making to external constraints and rigid communal divisions.
Read MoreDr Sami Saeed analyses how conflicts in Sudan and Libya affect the countries’ social contracts and constitutional order.
Read MoreOdile Ammann explores the symptoms of language bias in Comparative Constitutional Law Scholarship, which seems to lead to the prevalence of the English language in the field and weakens the quality of comparative pursuits. AI translations are hardly a satisfying solution.
Read MoreAhead of the referendum on constitutional revisions to the judiciary in Italy later in March 2026, Tania Groppi considers how the reform proposals - encompassing the separation between adjudicative and prosecutorial careers, the composition of the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the creation of the High Disciplinary court as a novel disciplinary body - weaken judicial independence and the rule of law.
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