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Good Chaps and Guardrails: Backstopping Democracy with a Reverse Salisbury Convention for the House of Lords

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 3, Page 529-537, July/September 2025.
Abstract The ‘good chaps’ theory of government relies on officeholders understanding and adhering to implicit lines preventing corruption and abuse of power. Boris Johnson's prime ministership showed some weaknesses in this approach. Recent global experience, especially with the re‐election of Donald Trump, suggests the UK may need stronger backstops ...
Tom Nicholls
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The right to food: Many developments, more challenges

Canadian Food Studies, 2015
The right to food (RTF)1has enjoyed growing recognition in the last decade. It has achieved legitimacy and visibility in international governance debates, where it is increasingly perceived as a useful “policy guide” (DeSchutter, 2009).
Priscilla Claeys
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A Post‐Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy

The Modern Law Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, Page 769-803, July 2025.
This article examines the emerging legal rationalities of EU's green industrial policy, questioning if they represent a departure from the neoliberal paradigm that prioritised safeguarding the competitive order. I argue that the European Green Industrial Plan signals a new role for law in the orchestration and balancing of public purpose and private ...
Ioannis Kampourakis
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The Constitutionalization of Social Rights in Italy, Germany, and Portugal: Legislative Discretion, Minimal Guarantees, and Distributive Integration

German Law Journal
In an international social rights debate disproportionately focused on English-speaking countries, redundant emphasis has been placed on justiciability.
Francesco Lucherini
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The Black Hole of Centralization: Subnational Emergency Invocations During the Tenures of Indira Gandhi and Narendra Modi

Asian Politics &Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, July 2025.
ABSTRACT The constitutional provision of “Subnational Emergency” under Article 356 of the Constitution of India, 1950, extraordinarily empowers the central (union) government to acquire executive and legislative powers of the states (subnational units) on the occurrence of an undefined and largely unrestrained state of “constitutional machinery failure”
Panch Rishi Dev Sharma
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Derechos sociales y amparo constitucional

Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2012
Although the Spanish Constitution recognizes a remarkable cast of social rights, its article 53 excludes these rights from the mechanisms built to guarantee the protection of constitutional rights.
María Díaz Crego
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Environmental Personhood and Standing for Nature: Examining the Colorado River case [PDF]

, 2019
As the planet faces the growing threat of climate change, environmental advocates are searching for alternative legal avenues to protect natural entities in the courts. In 2017, the Colorado River Ecosystem brought a lawsuit against the State of Colorado
Miller, Matthew
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Future proofing EU law – Does the European Union have a legal obligation to protect future generations?

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 420-434, July 2025.
Abstract This article analyses the normative landscape of future generations within the current body of European Union (EU) law, including the treaties, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, existing and potentially emerging general principles of EU law, as well as relevant international treaties and customary international law. The article argues that,
Katalin Sulyok
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The Justiciability of International River Disputes: A Study in the Case Method [PDF]

, 1964
This paper attempts to more accurately define the doctrine of equitable apportionment governing non-navigable use of international rivers so that practitioners of international law may more easily predict the results of future ...
Van Alstyne, William W.
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What is (the) matter with climate litigation? Law, nature, and the limits of legal technique

Journal of Law and Society, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 159-180, June 2025.
Abstract This article examines how nature is mediated by law in climate cases. In the Federal Court of Australia decision in Minister for the Environment v. Sharma (2022), the court applied a narrow definition of ‘matter of law’ (justiciability), and thereby negated ‘matter in law’ (such as carbon dioxide and ecological destruction).
STEWART MOTHA
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