Tag: South Sudan
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Judicial Independence under Threat in South Sudan
—Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School In my first post published on 13 April 2025, I discussed the nature of South Sudan’s 2011 Transitional Constitution, calling it a conflation of international template and domestic aspirations. I also discussed the idea of a strong president deeply embedded in that document and how it has…
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The ‘Intermestic’ Transitional Constitution of South Sudan
— Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School Every constitution drafted since at least the 18th century has this feature. What is it? If you said ‘constitutional borrowing’, give yourself a pat on the back! South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution is no exception in this respect.
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Internationalised Constitution-Making in Deeply Divided States: A Note on South Sudan
—Armi Beatriz E. Bayot, University of Oxford Faculty of Law [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] Describing a state as failed, failing, or fragile has often been a prelude to international intervention.