Rishika SAHGAL

In General Comment 36 on Article 6 of the ICCPR – the right to life – the Human Rights Committee noted, ‘The right to life is a right which should not be interpreted narrowly. It concerns the entitlement of individuals to be free from acts and omissions that are intended or may be expected…’

Charles M FOMBAD

The recent wave of coups d’état in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali and Niger – coming at a time of unprecedented poverty and threats of famine initially caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and now aggravated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine – is likely to provoke…

David BILCHITZ

For the first time, the World Congress of Constitutional Law will be held in Africa, in the vibrant city of Johannesburg. The start of the conference is only six months away. South Africa has been a beacon of hope…

Rivka WEILL

The United Mizrahi Bank decision has attracted interest world-wide, as the Israeli equivalent of Marbury v. Madison. Both Courts used their respective decisions to establish the power to judicially review primary legislation, though neither constitution…

Sarah Katharina STEIN

The famous Lüth-judgment (1958) of the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) developed the horizontal application of fundamental rights in Germany (enforced as between private citizens rather than vertically as against

Sanya SAMTANI

South Africa has an avowed commitment to remedying past injustices through transformative constitutionalism. One of the vehicles of transformative constitutionalism, South African courts have held that they “have a particular responsibility” to engage in remedial innovation that…

Eleonora BOTTINI

What makes an apex court’s judgment a ‘landmark’? For the past few years, I have been examining this concept together with a collective of amazing female scholars. Since the first symposium on landmark judgments in Commonwealth jurisdictions was hosted on the IACL-AIDC Blog…

Neslihan ÇETIN

Selon le rapport préoccupant publié par Scholars at Risk, la liberté académique en Turquie s’est fortement dégradée ces dernières années. L’autonomie institutionnelle, protégée par l’article 130 de la Constitution, et les libertés de recherche et d’enseignement…

Oran DOYLE

The International Association of Constitutional Law hosted a blog symposium in 2020 on the constitutional dimensions of Irish unification. The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement of 1998 provides that Irish unification will occur if consent is democratically and concurrently…

Max STEUER

With the continued prominence of Eurosceptic voices and the struggle to communicate the European Union’s (EU) actions to a wider public—resulting, among other things, in the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU—the Conference on the Future of Europe (CoFoE) was…

Sebastián Serna HERRERA

Article 34 of the Political Constitution of Colombia prohibits punishments of life imprisonment. However, in 2020, the Congress of the Republic adopted a constitutional amendment (Legislative Act 01 of 2020), establishing life imprisonment…

Irina CRIVEȚ

The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (known as the Istanbul Convention) entered into force on 1 August 2014, after being ratified by 10 Council of Europe (CoE) member states. The Istanbul Convention…

Asanga WELIKALA

The severe day-to-day hardships caused by a deteriorating Sri Lankan economy had given rise to small sporadic protests for months, but on the night of 31 March 2022, these erupted into a much more serious demonstration when protestors…

Yasser KURESHI

Pakistan’s Supreme Court found itself at the center of a high-stakes political battle last month. As former Prime Minister Imran Khan attempted to block a vote of no-confidence in his leadership that he was likely to lose, the Court intervened to force Khan…

Tom Gerald DALY

This Symposium began on 17 March 2022 with a central question: can court-packing be a legitimate measure to help repair the democratic system after a significant period of democratic decay?

Seven weeks and six thought-provoking responses later, and there is no doubt that…

Aslı BÂLI

Tom Daly’s provocative essay asks how we might be able to distinguish court-packing undertaken for pro-democratic purposes—as an act of democratic “restoration” to borrow his formula—from anti-democratic forms of court-packing that threaten the independence…

Marie GREN

Since 1962, constitutional artwork by General De Gaulle and his acolytes opened yet another era of hyper-concentration of powers in the hands of the executive in France. Bypassing the formal constitutional path for revision (set out in article 89 of the Constitution of 1958), an…

Jonatan Mitchel SISCO MARTINEZ

This blog post analyses the role of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador in the capture of the judicial branch and the subsequent controversial behavior of the politically-controlled Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of El Salvador…

Mariana VELASCO-RIVERA

In my last column, I tried to bring attention to the way in which Mexico’s ruling party (MORENA) hijacked the presidential recall election process, acting against both the constitution and a Supreme Court decision that held that the active participation…

Benjamin Joshua ONG

In the past, various constitutional challenges to section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code – which criminalises “gross indecency” between male persons, whether “in public or private” – all failed. The courts rejected the argument that…