Constitutional designers establishing a new judicial review mechanism can fail to make that mechanism a relevant instrument for checking the power of incumbent legislators or presidents. Judges may refuse to exercise their ...

his paper analyses the basis of African neo-constitutionalism and explores the intelligibility of the "new use" of the constitution in black Africa from the analysis of two cases of the constitutional trajectories: Mali ...

Some scholars argue that constitutions may include an insurance that aims to protect the political rights of prospective electoral losers and prevents a dominant ruling coalition from undermining the competitiveness of the ...

After the Cold War era, significant constitutional changes took place in Latin America. One distinct trend is the neo-Bolivarian constitutionalism, which has taken place in the ALBA countries, including the constitutional ...

The goal of the paper is to briefly sketch a theoretical proposal about the role played by discourse in the texture and texturing of lived experience. Inspired by the work of Bakhtin, we develop implications of concepts ...

This article suggests that the conditions under which the Chilean constitutional process of 2021–22 undertook its task held the seeds of its doom. Constitutional conventions are always tasked with reaching agreements on ...

The Theory of Constitution appears in the Weimar Constitution context, with the debates of the 1920s, and early 1930s, about the Theory of the State, the Law of the State and the German Constitution itself. The very start ...