Manuelita Hermes Rosa Oliveira Filha

After celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution, approved in 1988, there was a very big task for the Brazilians: elect a new President. This was the challenge the country faced a few days ago. This is no ordinary election: the president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, has raised concerns of a collapse of democracy. 

Renáta Uitz

As this litany of procedures suggests so far European constitutional actors must have done their best: they made it clear to the Hungarian government that what it was doing, and especially how it was doing it, violates the rule of law. In doing so, they repeated each other’s words and deeds without much variation

Renáta Uitz

On October 25, 2018 Central European University (CEU) made international news again. President and Rector Michael Ignatieff announced that CEU is moving to Vienna, unless the Hungarian government makes progress by December 1, 2018 on the international agreement it is meant to sign with the State of New York under Hungarian law.

In the last few hours many readers of this blog, friends and colleagues, took to asking how I felt about this. Disappointed, frustrated – but most of all: betrayed.

Asanga Welikala

Editors’ Note: This text is a cross-post from Groundviews and was published on 27 October 2018. The original text can be viewed here.

There were three dramatic announcements on the evening of Friday 26th October 2018 from the Presidential Secretariat: (a) the announcement of the withdrawal of the UPFA from the government; (b) the swearing-in of Mahinda Rajapaksa before President Maithripala Sirisena as the Prime Minister; and (c) removal of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe from office.

Sachin Dhawan

Approximately one year ago, the Supreme Court of India issued the landmark Shayara Bano decision setting aside the Muslim divorce mechanism of instantaneous triple talaq (triple talaq), - the utterance of talaq three times in quick succession by a Muslim husband.

Eugénie Mérieau

On October 4, 1958, General De Gaulle promulgated the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. The current French Republic was born in 1958, out of what were then referred to as the “events” in Algeria. Charles de Gaulle seized the opportunity of an attempted putsch in Algiers to return to power, ambiguously and strategically presenting himself as the savior of (French) Algeria (engaging later, after a war in which torture was widely practiced, in decolonization).

Francisca Pou Giménez and Ana Micaela Alterio

In this post, Francisca Pou Giménez and Ana Micaela Alterio review the recently published book Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America: the Emergence of a New Ius Commune, edited by Armin von Bogdandy, Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor, Mariela Morales Antoniazzi, Flávia Piovesan and Ximena Soley.

Elena Simina Tănăsescu

L ’initiative citoyenne pour la révision de la Constitution de la Roumanie n’a pas respecté la procédure parlementaire pour la révision de la Constitution

Elena Simina Tănăsescu

Le 6 et 7 octobre 2018 en Roumanie a eu lieu un référendum décisionnel et obligatoire pour la révision de la Constitution, plus précisément pour le remplacement du syntagme « le mariage entre les conjoints » avec « le mariage entre un homme et une femme » dans le cadre de l’article 48 qui porte l’intitulé marginale « la famille ».

Bertrand Mathieu

La fracture qui divise l’Europe traduit une crise profonde du système de la démocratie libérale.  Tenter de la surmonter implique de ne pas s’enfermer dans une posture idéologique mais d’en analyser les causes.