Tag: Kurdistan
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Extending the Parliament Beyond its Fixed Term: Between Judicial Activism and Judicial Self-restraint
Majida Ismael, Liverpool John Moores’ Law School Recently, following the contentious sessions and constant delays , on 30th May 2023, the Federal Supreme Court (FSC) broadcast its controversial ruling in case 233/2022 and, ruled unconstitutional the one-year extension to the term of the Parliament in Kurdistan.
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Independence Referenda Through the Prism of Kurdistan (I-CONnect Column)
—Aslı Bâli, UCLA School of 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.
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What Constitutional Future for Syria?
—Zoran Oklopcic (Carleton University) & Mohamad Ghossein (University of Ottawa) As the discourse of military intervention in Syria gradually subsides, and a political solution to the conflict seems marginally more likely, a full-blown debate about the constitutional future of Syria may appear premature.