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Transformative Constitutionalism and the Right to Health in Latin America

Revista de Direito Sanitário
The most important objective of transformative constitutionalism is to transform society by fostering democracy, protecting human rights, and seeking to eliminate poverty and reduce inequality.
Rodolfo Gutiérrez Silva
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Revisiting the EU's Democratic Deficit: Archival Insights From Maximalist Federalists

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the history of democratic problematisation of European integration, rather than taking part in the normative debate on the European Union's democratic legitimacy deficit that emerged in the 1990s. We focus on the narratives of non‐institutional actors who have considered that European integration should be a democratic ...
Jessy Bailly
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Area Studies and the Decolonisation of Comparative Law: Insights from Alternative Southeast Asian Constitutional Modernities

International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2020
Like “philosophy”, constitutional law is a disguised form of area studies that should more adequately be called “Western” or “Euroamerican” constitutional law.
Eugénie Mérieau
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The Place of History in British Criminology: 20th‐Century Developments

Sociology Lens, Volume 38, Issue 1, Page 16-30, March 2025.
ABSTRACT While the relevance of historical research and analysis for the development of a critical criminology in the United States in the 1970s has recently received some attention by historical criminologists, the place of history in British criminology—and British critical criminology in particular—remains a largely unexplored area of academic ...
Roberto Catello
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Transforming the legislative: a pending task of Brazilian and Colombian constitutionalism

Revista de Investigações Constitucionais, 2018
The Constitutions of 1988 in Brazil and 1991 in Colombia have instantiated a complex process of transformative constitutionalism associated with the protection of rights, and the inclusion of minority groups.
Santiago García-Jaramillo, Camilo Valdivieso-León   +1 more
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Changing interpretations: freedom of association in Germany and the United Kingdom

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transformation in the dominant understanding of freedom of association in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) within the context of industrial relations liberalization. It argues that both countries have experienced a shift from collectivist to individualist interpretations of freedom of association, driven by a ...
FELIX SYROVATKA
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Cloistered justice: The opposing trends of barricade and respective secrecy

Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Two recent reports illustrate contrasting trends in open justice exceptions conceptualised as respective and barricade secrecy. Respective secrecy protects the parties involved and their constitutive social ties and, as evaluation report into the Family Court Transparency Pilot indicates, has been shrinking.
LYDIA MORGAN
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Transformation of constitutionalism in Russia: historical and legal analysis

Russian Studies in Law and Politics
Background. Constitutionalism is the foundation of Russian statehood and the legal system. An analysis of its formation and development is necessary for understanding the evolution of Russian political and legal thought and the mechanisms for ...
Oleg I. Groshkov
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Identidades, relaciones internacionales y geopolítica del Caribe: Los actores territoriales de Estados Unidos y la Unión Europea: ¿Un estudio en contrastes?

Études Caribéennes, 2019
The cardinal objective of this paper is to bring to the surface the complex and as yet little explored political and legal relationship between the United States and its overseas territories in the light of a comparative exercise between the American ...
Rafael Cox Alomar
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society

Middle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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