Category: Columnists

Gautam Bhatia is an Indian lawyer and legal scholar. He is the author of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution and The Transformative Constitution. His work – including the constitutional law blog, Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy– has been cited on several occasions by the Supreme Court of India.

João Vitor Cardoso was an ethnographer at the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-2022). He is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Chile and holds a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). He studies sociological constitutionalism and constitutional politics with a special focus on Brazil and Chile.

Esther Ang’awa is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with practice experience providing legal advisory and representation in public and private law matters, as well as advising State and non-State actors on law, constitutionalism and governance. Ang’awa is passionate about creating legal awareness in the society and pushing for public governance that is people-centred, participatory and transformative. 

Teresa Violante is a PhD Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She holds a graduate degree in law (University of Coimbra) and a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (University of Padova), and lectures on fundamental…