An Open Question in Singapore’s Political Defamation Law: The Evidential Threshold of Political, Social and Cultural Values in Shanmugam v BloombergDevelopments
An Open Question in Singapore’s Political Defamation Law: The Evidential Threshold of Political, Social and Cultural Values in Shanmugam v Bloomberg
--Andre T M Chua, LLM (University of Toronto), LLB (National University of Singapore); writing on comparative constitutional law and Singapore…
Between Values and Identity: Autochthonous Constitutional Traditions as a Bridge in Supranational SystemsDevelopments
Between Values and Identity: Autochthonous Constitutional Traditions as a Bridge in Supranational Systems
--Dr. Gábor Spuller, Legal Advisor, Ministry for Infrastructure and digital affairs of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; expert in International and European Institutional Law…
A Constitution at the Crossroads: Armenia’s Reform Debate in a Shifting South CaucasusDevelopments
A Constitution at the Crossroads: Armenia’s Reform Debate in a Shifting South Caucasus
--Anna Vardanyan, political journalist and researcher, former advisor to the Vice Speaker of the Parliament of Armenia, and accredited journalist…
What James Madison Learned from Europe’s Federal Failures: The European Backstory to the Commerce ClauseDevelopments
What James Madison Learned from Europe’s Federal Failures: The European Backstory to the Commerce Clause
--Charles Edward Andrew Lincoln IV, Ph.D. candidate in international tax law at the University of Groningen, with research interests including…
The Judicial Lottery Problem Isn’t New — It’s Just New to UsDevelopments
The Judicial Lottery Problem Isn’t New — It’s Just New to Us
--Oksana Manko, independent legal researcher The debate over Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo has settled into two camps: Cass Sunstein's…
The Narrowed Office: How Kosovo’s Constitutional Court Has Diminished the Presidency and Made Dissolution a Political ToolDevelopments
The Narrowed Office: How Kosovo’s Constitutional Court Has Diminished the Presidency and Made Dissolution a Political Tool
--Gazmend Demolli, Independent researcher A republic that cannot elect a President has lost something more particular than a head of…
A Recent Petition for Party Dissolution and Militant Democracy in TaiwanDevelopments
A Recent Petition for Party Dissolution and Militant Democracy in Taiwan
--Shih-An Wang, Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University; Doctor of Jurisprudence (JSD), University of Chicago Law School…
Can Europe Review an Amnesty?Developments
Can Europe Review an Amnesty?
—Fruela Río Santos, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Oviedo On 16 July 2026 the Grand Chamber of the Court…
Italy’s AI Policing Decree: Nessun Dorma on Constitutional SafeguardsDevelopments
Italy’s AI Policing Decree: Nessun Dorma on Constitutional Safeguards
--Federica Paolucci, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bocconi University Introduction After years in which the debate focused on the adoption of Regulation…
We Ask Judges to Punish Politicians. Then We Accuse Them of GoverningDevelopments
We Ask Judges to Punish Politicians. Then We Accuse Them of Governing
—Elie Tassel-Maurizi, Emile Noel Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Jean Monnet Center, NYU School of Law; Junior Lecturer in International Law and…
The Republic of Cockroaches: Judicial Speech, Satirical Dissent, and Digital Censorship in IndiaDevelopments
The Republic of Cockroaches: Judicial Speech, Satirical Dissent, and Digital Censorship in India
--Simranjeet Kaur, Registered Foreign Lawyer (SRA, England and Wales) with experience in litigation and legal compliance, currently practising in London On 15…
Digital Militant Democracy: Free Elections, Technological Interference and the Limits of Constitutional Self-DefenceDevelopments
Digital Militant Democracy: Free Elections, Technological Interference and the Limits of Constitutional Self-Defence
--Michalina Marcia, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Poznań Human Rights Centre, Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences…
Protecting the Guardians: What Brazil and Germany Teach Us About Defending Constitutional Courts against PopulismDevelopments
Protecting the Guardians: What Brazil and Germany Teach Us About Defending Constitutional Courts against Populism
--Tatiana Paula da Cruz and David Trubek A constitutional court is built to do something almost no one else in…
How Kenya’s Court of Appeal Allowed the Indiscriminate Arrest of Women and Healthcare Providers for AbortionDevelopments
How Kenya’s Court of Appeal Allowed the Indiscriminate Arrest of Women and Healthcare Providers for Abortion
--Marion Joy, LL.B- Kabarak University, PGDL- Kenya School of Law, Advocate of the High Court of Kenya In April 2026, Kenya’s Court…
A Model Ecocide Law for Latin AmericaDevelopments
A Model Ecocide Law for Latin America
--Rodrigo Lledó, Director for the Americas at Stop Ecocide International, Chilean lawyer and former Head of the Legal Department of…
Who Guards the Truth? Epistemic Stabilization as Constitutional Self-DefenseDevelopments
Who Guards the Truth? Epistemic Stabilization as Constitutional Self-Defense
--Ye Lin Htet, independent legal scholar based in Yangon, Myanmar, focusing on comparative constitutional design and institutional resilience in low-trust…
Constitutional Circumvention and the Limits of Amendment Power: Reflections on Zimbabwe’s Constitution Amendment No. 3 BillDevelopments
Constitutional Circumvention and the Limits of Amendment Power: Reflections on Zimbabwe’s Constitution Amendment No. 3 Bill
--Nqobani Nyathi, Zimbabwean lawyer, LLB from the University of Zimbabwe and an LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) and…
How Much Political Judgment Does Ministerial Accountability Require? Greece’s Article 86 Reform and an Unexplained Gap in the Venice Commission’s StandardsDevelopments
How Much Political Judgment Does Ministerial Accountability Require? Greece’s Article 86 Reform and an Unexplained Gap in the Venice Commission’s Standards
--Dr Joanna Demopoulou, PhD in International Relations, former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) On…
(Un)constitutional Child Protection? The Protection of Children in Light of Hungarian Constitutional ProvisionsDevelopments
(Un)constitutional Child Protection? The Protection of Children in Light of Hungarian Constitutional Provisions
--Agnes Lux, Associate Professor, ELTE University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Centre for Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, and Judit…
Lest Democracy Degenerate into Pedantocracy? Challenges in Regulating Truth in Electoral Contexts, A View from BrazilDevelopments
Lest Democracy Degenerate into Pedantocracy? Challenges in Regulating Truth in Electoral Contexts, A View from Brazil
--Pedro Marques Neto, Professor of Law at Sorocaba Law School and Associate Researcher with the Constitution, Politics, and Institutions Research…
Future Proofing Surveillance Law in Israel: On Emerging Technologies and the ISA Law Amendment MemorandumDevelopments
Future Proofing Surveillance Law in Israel: On Emerging Technologies and the ISA Law Amendment Memorandum
--Amir Cahane, PhD student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, faculty of law; Doctoral Researcher, Three Generations of Digital Human Rights (3GDR)…
Making Article 2 TEU Justiciable: The Court of Justice in Commission v Hungary (Values of the Union)Developments
Making Article 2 TEU Justiciable: The Court of Justice in Commission v Hungary (Values of the Union)
--Fruela Río Santos, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Oviedo Screenshot On 21 April 2026 the Court of Justice, sitting…
The Supreme Court of India and Invisibilization of Judicial CorruptionDevelopments
The Supreme Court of India and Invisibilization of Judicial Corruption
--Arvind Kumar, University of Hertfordshire; Associate Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies; Postdoctoral Research Associate, SOAS, University of London; Shailesh Kumar,…
A Quiet Constitutional Revolution: How Eisenauer v. France May Turn the ECHR Article 6 Enforcement into Distributive JusticeDevelopments
A Quiet Constitutional Revolution: How Eisenauer v. France May Turn the ECHR Article 6 Enforcement into Distributive Justice
--Mikhail Galperin, Professor of International Law, National Research University Higher School of Economics On 12 May 2026, the European Court…
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Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2024
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