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Populist Constitutionalism in Brazil and Peru: Historical and Contextual Issues

Lentera Hukum, 2022
Given populism's common practice in South America, the region provides a crucial case to identify populism as a prevalent strategy by different ideologies.
Eleonora Mesquita Ceia
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The Lochner era and comparative constitutionalism [PDF]

International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2002
The Lochner era exerts a powerful hold over the American constitutional imagination as an example of the dangers of judicial review. Indeed, much of the edifice of the last fifty years of American constitutional jurisprudence can be viewed as a reaction to, a rejection of, and an attempt to avoid a repetition of, the Lochner era.
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Constitutionality from antiquity to the modern era [PDF]

Univerzitetska Misao
The constitution of each state describes the powers of state government and the manner in which they are exercised. The Constitution is a set of laws and contains key components necessary for the functioning of state administration, parameters for ...
Milinković Jelena
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Russian Constitutional Development: Formal and Informal Practices

BRICS Law Journal, 2019
Transitional constitutionalism remains the subject of intensive political controversy. Based on a project made possible by the Institute of Law and Public Policy (Moscow) this article presents the analysis of the basic constitutional principles of ...
A. Medushevskiy
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Una aproximación al constitucionalismo latinoamericano, características principales y nuevas tendencias // An approach to the Latin-American constitutionalism, main characteristics, and new trends.

Revista de Derecho Político, 2017
Resumen: El presente trabajo es una primera aproximación a las diversas manifestaciones del constitucionalismo en América Latina, a partir de algunas referencias comunes: Revolución Francesa, Derecho Comparado y alusiones a la modernidad.
Carlos Hakansson
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The judiciary and political change in Africa : developing transitional jurisprudence in Nigeria [PDF]

, 2009
At a time of increased evaluations of law, human rights, and the rise of judicial power all over the globe, the work of most African judiciaries and the principles of the jurisprudence they espouse in promoting social justice remain an unlikely focus of ...
Yusuf, Hakeem
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What Makes for More or Less Powerful Constitutional Courts? [PDF]

, 2018
It is sometimes suggested that one or another constitutional or supreme court (for example, the U.S., Indian, or German) is the “most powerful in the world.” And yet it is often far from clear what the measure of power is or should be, what the sources ...
Gardbaum, Stephen
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Constitutionalizing Connectivity: The Constitutional Grid of World Society [PDF]

, 2018
Global law settings are characterized by a structural pre-eminence of connectivity norms, a type of norm which differs from coherency or possibility norms.
Kjaer, Poul F.
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The Taliban, Afghan constitutionalism and modern Islamic law states: renegotiating the balance of religious and secular law

Global Constitutionalism
Reflecting on the Islamic law–secular law balance in past Afghan constitutional regimes and contemporary Taliban rule, this paper contextualizes Afghan constitutionalism in a broad spectrum of constitutional traditions present in other Islamic law states
Emilia Justyna Powell, Joshua Paldino
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Illiberal regimes in the perspective of comparative constitutionalism [PDF]

, 2017
Illiberal regimes are generally de ned as regimes in which neither democracy nor fundamental rights are granted, and in which rule of law is substantially disregarded. Instead of attempting a taxonomy, the article gives an account of their origins and of
Pinelli, Cesare
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