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Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?

open access: yesBulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 45, Issue 2, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Cuba is the oldest and most consolidated autocracy in the Americas. Its Revolution in 1959, the charisma of Fidel Castro, the single‐party system and the US embargo have made the island an exceptional case. However, recent developments such as popular protests, limited reforms, emigration or socio‐economic decline are bringing about some ...
Armando Chaguaceda, Susanne Gratius
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Private Regulatory Governance: Ambiguities of Public Authority and Private Power [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The continuing proliferation of transnational private regulatory governance challenges conceptions of legal authority, legitimacy and public regulation of economic activity.
Zumbansen, Peer
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The Social Contract in the European Union's Context

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 106-121, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article revisits social contract theory through a dialogue between Jule Goikoetxea Mentxaka and Antoni Abat i Ninet, questioning whether classical and contemporary contractarianism can account for structural forms of domination that precede and shape consent.
Antoni Abat i Ninet   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the limits of constitutional liberalism: in search of a constitutional reflexivity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Analyses of comparative constitutional law are frequently framed by a particular vision of constitutionalism that we call the 'structural-liberal' vision. This vision sees the purpose of constitutional as being one of limiting state power - its ‘liberal’
Dowdle, Michael W., Wilkinson, Michael
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Welfare States and the Green Transition: Towards an EU Eco‐Social Contract

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 162-179, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how climate change and climate‐related policies can destabilise the EU social contract. The article uses the welfare‐state lens that places social protection at the core of a feasible and legitimate green transition to understand this destabilisation.
Alberto Barrio Fernandez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Olivier Le Bot (2023). Constitutional Animal Law

open access: yesDerecho Animal
Olivier Le Bot’s Constitutional Animal Law, recently translated from French to English, is a pioneering contribution to the emerging field of constitutional animal law.
Marina Vitoria Baptista Rosa
doaj   +1 more source

Cloistered justice: The opposing trends of barricade and respective secrecy

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue S1, Page S93-S112, April 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Constitution of the Republic of Croatia and the highest values

open access: yesZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Splitu, 2012
Constitutional values as extensions of public reason are substantially determined the development, nature and life of classical and contemporary constitutionality.
Arsen Bačić
doaj  

The constitutional codification of academic freedom over time and space

open access: yesGlobal Constitutionalism
This article explores the global spread of domestic codifications of academic freedom norms by mapping constitutional provisions over time and space. Drawing on the new Academic Freedom in Constitutions dataset, the study evaluates several hypotheses ...
Janika Spannagel
doaj   +1 more source

Frankenberg G Comparative Constitutional Studies – Between Magic and Deceit

open access: yesPotchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2018
This contribution reviews the book by Günter Frankenberg titled Comparative Constitutional Studies – Between Magic and Deceit published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2018.
Francois Venter
doaj   +1 more source

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