Author: dlandau
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Governing in a Liberal-Constitutional State: Dealing With the Clash Between Legality and Legitimacy in Chile and Spain (I-CONnect Column)
—Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales & Utrecht University [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts.
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Developments in Brazilian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Brazilian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. –Luís Roberto Barroso[1], Juliano Zaiden Benvindo[2], and Aline Osorio[3] I.
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Catalonia: Is There a “Right” to Secession?
—Milena Sterio, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law The people of Catalonia voted on October 1 to secede from Spain. The Catalan independence referendum was heavily contested by Spain, which declared it unconstitutional, and which attempted to meddle, through security and police action, in the voting process itself.
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Developments in Indonesian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Indonesian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country 2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. –Stefanus Hendrianto* and Fritz Siregar** I.
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Constitutionalize This: Catalan Referendum as Political Surprise and Theoretical Disruption
—Zoran Oklopcic, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. Author of Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination (Oxford University Press, forthcoming February 2018). [Editor’s Note: This is the fifth entry in our symposium on Sunday’s independence vote in Catalonia.
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Developments in South Korean Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on South Korean constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country 2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. –Leo Mizushima, Research Associate at the Institute of Comparative Law, Waseda University I.
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The Brazilian Constitution of 1988, the Armed Forces, and the Coup d’Etat
—Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Marcelo Andrade Cattoni de Oliveira, & Thomas da Rosa Bustamante, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, Faculty of Law. On the 17th of September 2017, Brazilian Army General Antonio Hamilton Martins Mourão, during a lecture for a Masonic Lodge in Brasília, advocated the possibility of an interference of the Armed Forces…
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India’s Supreme Court Expands Freedom
—Menaka Guruswamy, Research Scholar and Lecturer, Columbia Law School and Advocate, Supreme Court of India [This article was originally published in the New York Times on September 10, 2017.] On Aug. 24, the Supreme Court of India, in a rare unanimous judgment, declared privacy a constitutional right.
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The Superficiality of U.S. Confirmation Hearings and the Issue of Comparative Constitutional Law
—Stefanus Hendrianto, Boston College In the last five confirmation hearings in the United States Senate for nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court (Roberts, 2005; Alito, 2006; Sotomayor, 2009; Kagan, 2010; and Gorsuch, 2017), the role of comparative constitutional law in the American constitutional system was one of the main questions.
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Contemplating the Future in the Era of Democratic Decay (I-CONnect Column)
—Tom Gerald Daly, Fellow, Melbourne Law School; Associate Director, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts.