Comparative constitutional law Authoritarian Constitutionalism – Comparative Analysis and Critique. Eds: Helena Alviar García & Günter Frankenberg. Elgar Publishing 2019 4 Nov 2019 This book was designed to analyze and submit to critique an important phenomenon – authoritarian constitutionalism (AC). 15 authors submitted contributions that deal with AC as a phenomenon in its…
Bell John… Reasons and Context in Comparative Law: Workshop to mark the retirement of Professor John Bell 7 Oct 2019 The Centre for European Legal Studies (Cambridge) kindly sponsored a Comparative law workshop in honour of John Bell, who is retiring in September 2019. The workshop, which was organised by…
Comparative constitutional law The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law – R. Masterman and R. Schütze (eds), 2019 30 Sep 2019 Comparative constitutional law is a thriving field of scholarship, with an increasing presence on Law School curricula across the world. The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Constitutional Law thereby seeks to…
Comparative constitutional law Vito Breda – The New Caledonia 2018 Referendum: Crisis in Consociative Democracies Redux 3 Jun 20193 Jun 2019 Last November, New Caledonia rejected, albeit with a less than expected majority (at 56.7% of the vote), the possibility of becoming a sovereign nation. The indication of a leaning towards…
Human rights & comparisons The ‘Tinkerbell moment”: why we should care about Comparative Human Rights Law 23 Apr 2019 The human rights contestations facing courts in different jurisdictions are remarkably similar. Does the death penalty breach human rights? Does freedom of speech include racist speech? What are the appropriate…
Brexit… Brexit as a secession 2 Apr 201914 Apr 2019 Unlike breach, withdrawal from an international treaty is in principle a lawful act. Article 54 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of the Treaties allows a State to withdraw…
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