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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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The European Union and global constitutionalism [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
This chapter examines narratives of constitutionalism and the ebb and flow of constitutional ideas and practices within and across the European Union and its Member States from the inception of the treaties to the present day. It seeks to establish to what extent the European Union manifests a ‘constitutional’ legal and political order.
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Human rights treaty derogation and COVID-19: WHO guidance and state response

Global Constitutionalism
What explains when states derogate from international human rights law during the COVID-19 pandemic? Conventional understanding of treaty derogations suggests that domestic democratic structures, not the crisis at hand, explain derogation submissions.
Audrey L. Comstock
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Itamar Mann, lifeboats and climate politics: An introduction

Global Constitutionalism
This introduction to the Agora outlines the issues raised by and arguments in Itamar Mann’s article, ‘From survival cannibalism to climate politics: Rethinking Regina vs Dudley and Stephens’, and the four commentaries thereon.
Michael Da Silva, David Owen
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Leading the Charge on Digital Regulation: The More, the Better, or Policy Bubble? [PDF]

Digit Soc, 2023
Codagnone C, Weigl L.
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Navigating maritime law, law of the sea and human rights protection to inform climate adaptation

Global Constitutionalism
In ‘From survival cannibalism to climate politics: Rethinking Regina vs Dudley and Stephens’, Itamar Mann argues inter alia that survival cannibalism and the duty to rescue at sea can inform how to approach climate politics (Mann, p 1).
Ainhoa Campàs Velasco
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Constitutionalism beyond territory: Unterritorial democracy, panarchy and pan-citizenship

Global Constitutionalism
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility and adaptability of democratic orders. While confinement accelerated cross-border ‘tele-life’, rights and protections remained territorially locked.
David Altman
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Arguing Global Environmental Constitutionalism

Revista Opinião Jurídica (Fortaleza), 2012
The current global environmental law and governance regime has been designed primarily to attend to the worsening ecological crisis. Evidence, however, suggests that the regime is far from achieving its goal and it is failing in its efforts to solve what people perceive to be pervasive global environmental problems.
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Academic freedom: Global variations in norm conceptualization, diffusion and contestation – an introduction

Global Constitutionalism
This Introduction provides an overview of the topics covered in this special issue on ‘Academic freedom: Global variations in norm conceptualization, diffusion and contestation’, which explores what academic freedom means, how this may vary on a global ...
Kriszta Kovács, Janika Spannagel
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Re-imagining the nation-state: An impetus from the pandemic. [PDF]

Front Sociol, 2023
Posocco L, Watson I.
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