World Comparative Law / VRUe

New: Guest editor @AnmolJain_law revisits @theunis_roux's argument from WCL 1/24: In order to counter anti-democratic and populist forces, do the conflict lines of competing constitutional grand narratives need to be redrawn? 🔓inlibra.com/de/document/vi… Special 🙏🏻 to IACL-AIDC!

1 Special Issue – 2 Symposia: How do constitutional courts across Asia with international law? feat. guest editors Ngoc Son Bui and Maartje de Visser. How does religion shape the constitutional identity of a nation feat. debate on Mathew John's new book 🔓 nomos-elibrary.de/en/document/vi…

The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law by Shannonbrooke Murphy Provides the first comprehensive introduction to the concept of the human right to resist and its status in positive law. 📚 cup.org/3T7sPeU #internationallaw

📚 We welcome book proposals for our Routledge Series in Comparative Constitutional Change. 22 books published so far, with 5 more to come this year. A pleasure to co-edit the Series with Alkmene Fotiadou, Xenophon Contiades & Thomas Fleiner. 🎉 Details: routledge.com/Comparative-Co…

Special Issue out now: “When Law Meets Dissent” How do opposition forces operate within and against constitutional systems? How does public law influence their struggle for relevance? And how far disconnected are its legal ideals from political practice? d7fb2.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rq…

#CFP 📝 Our 'Interdisciplinary perspectives on empire, colonialism, and anticolonialism' event on 17 October will bring into dialogue different perspectives of the subject across the arts, humanities and social sciences Submit a paper by 30 August #call-for-papers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47272/#…

Some impressions from our annual conference, for the second time in a row at @HumboldtUni Grateful for everyone who helped make this day of intense and inspiring discussions possible!

🆕Symposium Post📝 New symposium post: To round out the Workshop my Paper symposium focussed on his @WCL_VRU article, ‘Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa’, @theunis_roux responds to the symposium contributors ⬇️

Exciting news! The call for workshops for the @iacl_aidc World Congress is now open . Submit your proposals here and I'll see you on Bogota: wccl2026.com/en/call-for-wo… #wccl2026

How do legal practices designed to protect the environment end up violating the rights of Indigenous peoples? In their study of 🇧🇷national parks, Clara Adão and Raquel Coelho de Freitas reveal how 🇧🇷 environmental law promotes territorial exclusion:🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

Could the Emir of 🇰🇼's decisions to dissolve parliament be subject to judicial review? Islam Ibrahim Chiha and Abdelhafiz Elshemy of @qataruni trace how 🇰🇼 Constitutional Court's landmark decisions led to legislative confirmation of the court's powers:🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

Are 🇮🇳 judges narrowing the concept of religion in church-state separation cases to privilege Hinduism? Read @DarshanDatar on the role of the judicial concept of religion in the rise of the Hindu majoritarian project in our current 📘: 🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

📘New #issue out now! Discover a broad range of articles, including an inspirational reflection by @DineshaSam on personal experiences with challenges, opportunities, and hopes of CCL from & within the #GlobalSouth (keynote @ WCL Annual Conference ‘24) 🔓d7fb2.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rq…

H. Küpper & @WPartlett made the excellent proposal to explain constitutional backlash in Eastern Europe by Soviet/ Russian imperialism. I argue that the crisis of European constitutionalism is also shaped by German/Western coloniality in EE @WCL_VRU

How to respond if right-wing actors instrumentalize the past? @JessicaHoll_ & Jasmin Wachau ask to w. extent 🇧🇷 & 🇩🇪 juridified their past. Do certain ways of dealing w. the #memory of past injustices yield better results?🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050… Follow➡️bsky.app/profile/wclvru…

How do courts respond to #disinformation in democratic #backsliding? In our recent issue @claraig and Diego Werneck Arguelhes examine how 🇧🇷 courts navigate the tensions between their role in protecting democracy and institutional limitations🔓 nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

@AnmolJain_law @theunis_roux @WCL_VRU blog-iacl-aidc.org/2025-posts/202…

🆕Symposium📝@AnmolJain_law introduces our new ‘Workshop My Paper Symposium’, which will feature comparative reflections on @theunis_roux’s recent article in @WCL_VRU: ‘Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa' ⬇️⬇️

📘New issue feat. Symposium "Varieties of Constitutionalism: Contestations of Liberalism in Comparative Constitutional Law." Read @riegnerm on why we must better understand challenges, engage with critique, & adapt to change for #constitutionalresilience: nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

💡Call for Abstracts: For our special Issue "The City as a Contested Space" ⚙️We invite contributions that analyze the constitutional dimensions of urban housing crises from a comparative perspective! Deadline: March 15 2025 | More information➡️voelkerrechtsblog.org/calls-for-pape…