Tag: Global South
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Comparative Constitutional Law and the Problem of “Context”
—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.] In this text, I would like to offer some reflections on the practice of comparative constitutional law, drawing from my experience supervising the work of master’s and…
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Towards a More Inclusive Constitutional Discourse: Overcoming Linguistic Barriers
—Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2022 columnists, see here.] The rise of English as the lingua franca is a well-known phenomenon that has affected many areas of our lives.
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Rethinking the Concept of the Global South
—Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2022 columnists, see here.] In a 2011 article, Teemu Ruskola forcefully suggested that Asia’s spatial and temporal significance had long been overlooked due to misguided conventional conceptions of…
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The Challenges of Transformative Constitutionalism – A Reply to Jorge González Jácome
–Carlos Bernal, Justice, Colombian Constitutional Court[1] I In “The Promise and Peril of “Transformative Constitutionalism,” Jorge González Jácome comments on my earlier post here at I-CONnect on “The Paradox of the Transformative Role of the Colombian Constitutional Court.” González makes seven claims about my post: (a) That I “advanced an argument against the transformative role of…