Comparative constitutional law The Accountability of Executive Power: New Paths into a Constitutional Black Box, by G Tusseau 28 Feb 202528 Feb 2025 Is there anything new to say about such a classic subject as executive power? Two books, Comparative Executive Power in Europe: Perspectives on Accountability from Law, History and Political Science and…
Comparative constitutional law Book Review – Leah Trueblood’s Referendums as Representative Democracy, by Joel I- Colón-Ríos 21 Feb 202514 Mar 2025 Leah Trueblood has written an important book about the relationship between referendums and constitutional change. Referendums as Representative Democracy(Hart 2024) challenges the way in which referendums have been generally conceived…
Comparative constitutional law Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study (OUP, 2024) by Irini Katsirea 14 Jan 202514 Jan 2025 Press Freedom and Regulation in a Digital Era: A Comparative Study aims to explore the changed environment in which the press operates and the regulatory challenges it faces in the…
Comparative constitutional law… Frede Castberg (1893–1977): A Call for Moderate Constructivism in Nordic and International law, by Sören Koch 21 Jun 202421 Jun 2024 Introduction Despite having a separate legal system and jurisdiction which has roots back to the medieval period, traditionally, Norway was highly impacted by discourses on legal developments taking place outside…
Human rights & comparisons The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in context. Justice that cannot be taken for granted, Oxford, OUP, 2024, 576 p, Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen 3 May 202428 Apr 2024 Is it possible to compare the incomparable? The heterogeneity of the three Regional Courts of Human Rights, the diversity of normative instruments, the relativity of continental issues and the singularity…
Comparative constitutional law… ‘Federally Trapped’? Comparing and Contrasting Local Government in Multi-Layered Systems, by Matteo Nicolini and Alice Valdesalici 2 Feb 2024 A problem of collocation ‘What is the place of local government in federal studies?’ This is the question that we asked ourselves when we decided to venture forth into the…
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