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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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Out of ‘time out of mind’: The emotional experience of time and the English constitution between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries

Global Constitutionalism
This article investigates the role of the emotional experiences of time in the constitutional debates of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. It posits temporality as a shared, collective and emotional experience, rather than an external and natural
Luiza Tavares da Motta
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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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Judicial globalization from below: Nonjudicial actors and transnational legal communication

Global Constitutionalism
The increase in national courts’ reliance on foreign and international law sources, labeled ‘transnational communication’, has established domestic judges as influential, independent actors in the international legal arena that may promote domestic ...
Thora Giallouri, Elli Menounou
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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The quasi-federal constitution? Taxonomical influences on interpretation of federalism in India

Global Constitutionalism
Designating India as a ‘Union of States’ under Article 1, the Constitution of India does not adhere to a federal vocabulary. The perusal of the Constituent Assembly Debates establishes this verbiage to be a deliberate choice.
Nidhi Sharma
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Negotiating Global Citizenship and Nationalism: Shifting Paradigms in Hong Kong's Global Citizenship Education

European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This conceptual paper critically examines the evolving interplay between global citizenship and nationalism in Hong Kong's global citizenship education. Drawing on critical analysis of existing literature and recent socio‐political and educational changes in Hong Kong, it traces the shift from a Western‐oriented global citizenship ...
Jason Cong Lin
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The deliberative right to constitutional silence

Global Constitutionalism
I champion a deliberative right to constitutional silence. It entitles individuals to reflect upon the arguments and reasons in favour or against changing or re-interpreting constitutional content under proper conditions. After reflecting on the place of
Donald Bello Hutt
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Cuba's Three Autocratic Transitions: From Revolutionary Regime to (Post)Totalitarianism and New Authoritarianism?

Bulletin 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
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State functions and corporate power in fragile states: a constitutionalism approach

Global Constitutionalism
In fragile contexts, the state is sometimes unable to effectively perform some of its fundamental functions, such as the provision of public services, law-making, or territorial governance.
Francesco Pipicella
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