The Dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative Council by the Palestinian Constitutional Court: A Missed Opportunity for Reform

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The Dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative Council by the Palestinian Constitutional Court: A Missed Opportunity for Reform

Sanaa ALSARGHALI

On 14 June 2007, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas used the Palestinian temporary constitutional document - the Basic Law (BL) - to declare a thirty-day state of emergency. This declaration followed the unexpected 2006 election of Hamas – a political party viewed as being ‘terrorist’…

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The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court’s Interpretation of the Islamic Sharia as a Constitutional Check: Stalling the Radical Islamization of the Egyptian Legal System

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The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court’s Interpretation of the Islamic Sharia as a Constitutional Check: Stalling the Radical Islamization of the Egyptian Legal System

Eman RASHWAN

The meaning and application of Islamic Sharia in the Egyptian legal system is one of the most controversial aspects of modern constitutional law in Egypt. With its landmark judgment in 1985, the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt gave some fundamental answers…

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On the Women’s Side: the Turkish Constitutional Court Protecting Women’s Reproductive Rights

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On the Women’s Side: the Turkish Constitutional Court Protecting Women’s Reproductive Rights

Valentina Rita SCOTTI & Ilayda ESKITASCIOGLU

On July 23rd 2020, the all-male Grand Chamber of the Turkish Constitutional Court issued its decision on the case of R.G. This progressive judgment, published on the Official Gazette on September 10th 2020, declared that the procrastination of the decision on a victim’s request for terminating…

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