Tag: authoritarian constitutionalism
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When War Comes Home: The Constitutional Cost of Iran’s Security Crackdown
—Faraz Firouzi Mandomi, Ph.D. Candidate in Law, University of Hamburg On June 4, 2025, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, declared: “The United States and Israel can’t do a damn thing.” As I argued at the time, this statement was not mere defiance, but a constitutional directive.
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Book Review: Jaclyn Neo on Kevin Y.L. Tan’s “The Constitution of Singapore: A Contextual Analysis”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Jaclyn Neo reviews Kevin Y.L. Tan’s book on The Constitution of Singapore: A Contextual Analysis.] Contextualizing the Singapore Constitutionalist Paradox –Jaclyn L. Neo,* Assistant Professor of Law, National University of Singapore Befitting of his status as one of the foremost legal historians in Singapore, Kevin YL Tan’s masterful introduction to Singapore…
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On Abusive Constitutionalism: Two Critical Impulses
—Jorge González-Jácome, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia The relationship between constitutionalism and authoritarianism is not simple. Some might argue that they are opposing concepts but a very suggestive article by David Landau has coined the term abusive constitutionalism to refer to the use of tools of constitutional amendment and constitutional replacement used by would-be autocrats to…