Tag: constitutional change
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Flirtations with the People: The Glimmer of the 1991 Colombian Constitution
—Jorge González Jácome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] The government of Colombia’s left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, has recently put forward the idea of using a citizen participation mechanism to revive one of his social…
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Bangladesh’s Apolitical Constitution-making Initiative: Silver Lining or Slippery Slope?
—Kawser Ahmed, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor, Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals The Long and the Short On 05 August 2024, in the face of a massive Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (AdSM) protesting the discriminatory quota system in government jobs – which later escalated into demands for her resignation – the then…
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Bangladesh in Stasis: No Way Out Without a New Constitution?
—M A Sayeed, UNSW Sydney, Australia/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, and Lima Aktar, Thomas More Law School, ACU, Melbourne/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh[1] Constitutional crisis may occur for many factors, but when it triggers constitutional transformation, it becomes stasis (Alberto Esu). In Greek, stasis means civil/political unrest, disharmony and, to its most extreme, the breakdown of the constitutional system…
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There is no Comparatist Heaven of Constitutional Concepts
—Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, Project Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. Twitter: @botiojanco [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] “An exercise in conceptual clarification.” This is how Gary Jacobsohn described his and Yaniv Roznai’s coauthored book, Constitutional Revolution.[1] For
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I-CONnect Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum – Making Sense of Chile’s Failed Constituent Process
—Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and Utrecht University (The Netherlands) I. Last month, Chile’s second attempt to get a new Constitution in the last few years failed again. As opposed to the first constituent initiative (led by former President Bachelet, in 2014-2018, which can be better described as having been aborted), this time the…
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Jacobsohn & Roznai’s Machiavellian Insights for our Machiavellian Moment
—Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, Project Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. Twitter: @botiojanco [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] Motivating Gary Jacobsohn & Yaniv Roznai’s Constitutional Revolution (2020) are a series of Machiavellian moments, times when a profound political…
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When Judges Unbound Ulysses: the Case of Presidential Reelection in El Salvador
—Manuel Adrian Merino Menjivar, Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Gerardo Barrios, El Salvador In Ulysses Unbound, Jon Elster understands constitutions as a precommitment made by the people to themselves. According to the myth on which he bases his metaphor, when Ulysses returned from the Trojan War, he had to pass through the Isle of Sirens,…
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Symposium |Constitutional Struggles in Asia | Part III | Thin but Resilient Constitutionalism in Japan?
[Editor’s Note: In light of recent constitutional (or some may say, unconstitutional) developments, I-CONnect is pleased to feature this timely symposium examining constitutional struggles in Asia. This is part III of a five part series, in addition to the Introduction.] — Akiko Ejima, School of Law, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan Introduction: 75-year-old Constitution without amendment?
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Symposium on Constitutional Struggles in Asia: Introduction
[Editor’s Note: In light of recent constitutional (or some may say, unconstitutional) developments, I-CONnect is pleased to feature this timely symposium examining constitutional struggles in Asia. This introduction will be followed by five posts exploring and contextualizing constitutional struggles in five countries in Asia.]
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The Curious Conservatism of Constitutional Amendment Politics in the United States
—Andrea Scoseria Katz, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. For more information about our four columnists for 2020, please click here.] A few days ago, an email popped into my inbox.