Corporations increasingly enjoy more rights but face fewer consequences for abusing rights. Recent rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States have provided greater rights protections to private corporate actors while placing…
Read MoreThe concept of constitutionalism rests on the idea of democratic self-determination based on the rule of law. Self-determination over the national legal order includes the delimitation of private power as well as the shaping of a state’s economic order…
Read More“As soon as they know where you’re from they won’t even look at your cover letter,” Johan tells me. A middle-aged man from Belgium, Johan knows his job applications are cast aside by employers when the address on his CV reveals where he’s from…
Read MoreThe 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is amongst the recent human rights instruments which emphasises the indivisibility of rights. The right to speech and expression holds little meaning if accessible means and modes…
Read MoreIn 2006, the world’s first “rights of nature” law was enacted. The law was adopted by the small community of Tamaqua Borough, in the State of Pennsylvania in the United States of America. Two years later, Ecuador became the first country to enshrine the rights of nature – Pacha Mama – in a national constitution…
Read MoreLes changements anticonstitutionnels de pouvoir continuent de représenter un défi majeur pour le constitutionnalisme africain. Survenant par la force des armes ou à travers une subtile modification de la constitution, ne conservant qu’une apparence…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreFor 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…
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