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The drunken dinner guest of democratic politics: Constitutional conventions and populism as a transgressive political style

Global Constitutionalism
Comparative legal literature increasingly stresses the fundamental importance of informal norms that underpin democratic and constitutional governance. A particular species of these informal norms is the constitutional convention.
Marleen Maria Kappé, Jerfi Uzman
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Politically responsive review: Beyond the democracy–minority rights dichotomy in the European convention

Global Constitutionalism
This article challenges the widespread framing of minority rights and democracy as opposing principles within the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Michaela Hailbronner
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Interesting times: Transitional justice in the Era of Putin, Xi and Trump 2.0

Global Constitutionalism
Transitional justice (TJ) emerged during the consolidation of the liberal international order (the LIO). It was deemed to flow from, and contribute to, the emergence of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in post-authoritarian and post-conflict ...
Padraig McAuliffe
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Global Constitutionalism: Editorial Introduction [PDF]

Netherlands International Law Review, 2019
Ryngaert, C.M.J., Wessel, R.A., Prévost, Denise, Wouters, Jan   +3 more
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Milton's Macbeth: Time, Irony, and Evil in Paradise Lost

Milton Quarterly, EarlyView.
Gary Kuchar
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The Merits of Global Constitutionalism

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 2009
Global constitutionalism is an agenda that identifies and advocates for the application of constitutionalist principles in the international legal sphere. Global constitutionalization is the gradual emergence of constitutionalist features in international law.
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Private law, private international law and public interest litigation

Global Constitutionalism
Private actors and institutions, and by extension private law itself, are increasingly being forced to reckon with a multiplicity of challenges that extend beyond the domain of private law as it is traditionally conceived.
Stephanie Law, Jo Shaw, Jonathan Havercroft, Susan Kang, Antje Wiener   +4 more
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Claude Lefort in the age of the total constitution

Global Constitutionalism
In contradistinction to totalitarianism, Claude Lefort theorised a democratic form of society as one primarily characterised by indeterminacy, absence of ground, and by extension openness to the event. In maintaining this form of society, Lefort reserved
Maxim van Asseldonk
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Constitutionalizing dissent: The universe of opposition rules in African constitutions

Global Constitutionalism
Constitutions are the most important legal foundation of politics. At the same time, the existence of a viable parliamentary opposition has been regarded one of the most distinctive characteristics of democracy.
Danny Schindler
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Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics

Global Constitutionalism
How should democratic communities decide who should belong? Recent debates about issues such as voting rights for prisoners, denationalization policies or citizenship tests raise this fundamental democratic question.
Svenja Ahlhaus
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