The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe?

The Courts and the People: Friend or Foe?

The Putney Debates 2019 (DJ Galligan eds.)

Are the courts our friend or our foe? Prompted by the constitutional crisis following the referendum of 2016, the Foundation for Law Justice and Society convened the second Putney Debates. Now convened on an annual basis, they provide a forum each year for the discussion of matters of constitutional importance…

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Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia

Salvador Santino F. REGILME Jr.

Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world’s largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America’s post–Cold War…

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9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World

9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law: How the UN Security Council Rules the World

Edited by Arianna VEDASCHI and Kim Lane SCHEPPELE

Twenty years after the outbreak of the threat posed by international jihadist terrorism, which triggered the need for democracies to balance fundamental rights and security needs, 9/11 and the Rise of Global Anti-Terrorism Law offers an overview of counter-terrorism and…

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Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of Law

Tímea DRINÓCZI & Agnieszka BIEŃ-KACAŁA

This book theorizes illiberal constitutionalism by interrogation of the Rule of Law, democratic deterioration, and the misuse of the language and relativization of human rights protection, and its widespread emotional and value-oriented effect on the population…

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The Veil of Participation: Citizens and Political Parties in Constitution-Making Processes

The Veil of Participation: Citizens and Political Parties in Constitution-Making Processes

Alexander HUDSON

Public participation is a vital part of constitution-making processes around the world, but we know very little about the extent to which participation affects constitutional texts. In this book, Alexander Hudson offers a systematic measurement of the impact of public participation in three much-cited cases…

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