Love on Trial: Greek Supreme Court Upholds Equal Marriage Amid Strategic Anti-Rights LitigationDevelopments
Love on Trial: Greek Supreme Court Upholds Equal Marriage Amid Strategic Anti-Rights Litigation
--Maria Kotsoni, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University In 2024, Greece made headlines by legalizing equal marriage. This long-awaited legal reform…
Term Limits for the Prime Minister: Reform Capacity and the Importance of Process in HungaryDevelopments
Term Limits for the Prime Minister: Reform Capacity and the Importance of Process in Hungary
--Tímea Drinóczi, Research Professor at the Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania Before and following the recent electoral victory in Hungary,…
Judicial Authority Without Structure: Legal Transplants and the Limits of Judicial ActivismDevelopments
Judicial Authority Without Structure: Legal Transplants and the Limits of Judicial Activism
--Fernanda Florentino Fernandez Jankov, PhD, Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo (USP), research focusing on jurisdictional transformation, delegated authority,…
Brazil in the V-Dem Democracy Report 2026: Reversal, Resilience, and the Limits of Democratic RecoveryDevelopments
Brazil in the V-Dem Democracy Report 2026: Reversal, Resilience, and the Limits of Democratic Recovery
--Miguel Gualano de Godoy, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) School of Law, currently affiliated…
Hungary’s Constitutional Boomerang – A Recommendation for the CommissionDevelopments
Hungary’s Constitutional Boomerang – A Recommendation for the Commission
--Dr. Gábor Spuller, Legal Advisor at the Ministry for Infrastructure and digital affairs of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; Expert in EU funds…
Smart Borders, Blind Spots: Surveillance Technology and Fundamental Rights at Europe’s BordersDevelopments
Smart Borders, Blind Spots: Surveillance Technology and Fundamental Rights at Europe’s Borders
--Amaliya Kartika Putri, LL.M in Law and Technology from Utrecht University, focusing on GDPR, AI regulation, and fundamental rights in…
The Fiction Of Neutrality: How the US Supreme Court Recasts Therapeutic Regulation as Speech in Chiles v. SalazarDevelopments
The Fiction Of Neutrality: How the US Supreme Court Recasts Therapeutic Regulation as Speech in Chiles v. Salazar
--Rishika Verma, LL.B graduate, Campus Law Centre, University of Delhi and legal researcher working on constitutional law, human rights and…
Bangladesh’s Broken Constitutional Moment Part II: The BNP’s Inheritance and the Foreclosed Constitutional Moment – Can Reform be Salvaged?Developments
Bangladesh’s Broken Constitutional Moment Part II: The BNP’s Inheritance and the Foreclosed Constitutional Moment – Can Reform be Salvaged?
--Arafat Hosen Khan, Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Law School INTRODUCTION: FROM INTERREGNUM TO POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION Constitutional moments, by their nature,…
Bangladesh’s Broken Constitutional Moment Part I: The Architecture of Failure – The National Consensus Commission and the Problem of Selective ConstitutionalismDevelopments
Bangladesh’s Broken Constitutional Moment Part I: The Architecture of Failure – The National Consensus Commission and the Problem of Selective Constitutionalism
--Arafat Hosen Khan, Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Law School INTRODUCTION: A MOMENT SQUANDERED Constitutional moments, in Bruce Ackerman's foundational account,…
Too Much Time on Minitrue: Implementing the Digital Services Act in PolandDevelopments
Too Much Time on Minitrue: Implementing the Digital Services Act in Poland
--Katarzyna Łakomiec, Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Assistant Professor at…
The Erosion of the National Human Rights Institution in VenezuelaDevelopments
The Erosion of the National Human Rights Institution in Venezuela
--Angello Javier Peña Barrios, Master of Advanced Studies in Human Rights from the Inter-American Academy of Human Rights, Mexico; Researcher…
The Misuse of Popular Sovereignty in LithuaniaDevelopments
The Misuse of Popular Sovereignty in Lithuania
--Airė Keturakienė, assistant professor at Vytautas Magnus University (Kaunas, Lithuania), and Donatas Murauskas, associate professor at Vilnius university (Vilnius, Lithuania)…
Can an Electoral Commission Know Voter Choices? A Constitutional Perspective on the Use of Barcodes in the Recent Thai General ElectionDevelopments
Can an Electoral Commission Know Voter Choices? A Constitutional Perspective on the Use of Barcodes in the Recent Thai General Election
--Angelo Sathayu Sathorn, final year law student passionate about democracy, public law, and human rights The use of barcodes and…
Democratic Triumph or Missed Opportunity? Rethinking Italy’s Rejection of Constitutional Reform Developments
Democratic Triumph or Missed Opportunity? Rethinking Italy’s Rejection of Constitutional Reform
--Lorenza Carucci, PhD candidate in Constitutional and Public Law, University of Turin On March 22nd and 23rd 2026, the Italian…
A Moderate Account of Constituent Power: The 13th Amendment Review Judgment in BangladeshDevelopments
A Moderate Account of Constituent Power: The 13th Amendment Review Judgment in Bangladesh
--Ragib Mahtab, SJD Candidate, Central European University Introduction On March 12, 2026 the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of…
“The Day After” for Another Broken Democratic PolityDevelopments
“The Day After” for Another Broken Democratic Polity
--M. Victoria Kristan, Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Bologna Hungary’s recent elections have produced what many long considered…
Decolonisation in Reverse: India’s 2026 Transgender Amendment Act and the Return of the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act RationaleDevelopments
Decolonisation in Reverse: India’s 2026 Transgender Amendment Act and the Return of the 1871 Criminal Tribes Act Rationale
--Rishabh Mehta, candidate for B.B.A. LL.B (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, India; Aditya Birla Scholar and Executive Editor, GNLU Student…
Statutory Ambiguity and Democratic Accountability in U.S. and U.K. Public LawDevelopments
Statutory Ambiguity and Democratic Accountability in U.S. and U.K. Public Law
--Yuvraj S. Tuli, recent graduate of Cornell University, on the cusp of commencing an MPhil at the University of Cambridge,…
From Phenomenon to Concept: The Case for Composite Constitutional Legality in BangladeshDevelopments
From Phenomenon to Concept: The Case for Composite Constitutional Legality in Bangladesh
--Forhad Hossain, Lecturer, University of Asia Pacific, Bangladesh The July 2024 Uprising plunged Bangladesh into a deep constitutional crisis that…
Habermas: The Last Towering Philosopher and Public Intellectual of our Era, A Jurisprudential Obituary Part IIDevelopments
Habermas: The Last Towering Philosopher and Public Intellectual of our Era, A Jurisprudential Obituary Part II
–Leonardo García Jaramillo, Full Professor, Policy and Development Area, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia To Cristina Lafont, “Was für eine Philosophie…
Habermas: The Last Towering Philosopher and Public Intellectual of our Era, A Jurisprudential Obituary Part IDevelopments
Habermas: The Last Towering Philosopher and Public Intellectual of our Era, A Jurisprudential Obituary Part I
–Leonardo García Jaramillo, Full Professor, Policy and Development Area, Universidad EAFIT, Medellín, Colombia To Cristina Lafont, “Was für eine Philosophie…
U.S. Federal and State Constitutional Limits on Mid-Decade RedistrictingDevelopments
U.S. Federal and State Constitutional Limits on Mid-Decade Redistricting
--Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, PhD Fellow, Center for Constitutional Democracy, Indiana University Maurer School of Law Introduction For much of American…
Kazakhstan’s New Constitution and the Rise and Rise of AuthoritarianismDevelopments
Kazakhstan’s New Constitution and the Rise and Rise of Authoritarianism
--Kaustubh Tiwari, advocate practising in India and interested in comparative constitutional law Constitutional Conspectus Kazakhstan, a country situated in Central…
Eliminating Caste Discrimination in India’s Higher Education: A Constitutional Dilemma under the 2026 RegulationsDevelopments
Eliminating Caste Discrimination in India’s Higher Education: A Constitutional Dilemma under the 2026 Regulations
--Atul Kumar Dubey, Research Scholar at the Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West…
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