Tag: presidential power
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Symposium on South Korea’s Martial Law Declaration Part 2: Holding the President Criminally Responsible for Insurrection
—Woongjae Kim, Assistant Professor, Seoul University School of Law Introduction: The Martial Law Crisis and Its Aftermath On December 3, 2024, President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea shocked the nation by suddenly declaring martial law. The declaration was immediately followed by a martial law decree that prohibited all political activity, including the activities of…
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A New Revolution? The Recent Governmental Crisis in Romania
—Bianca Selejan-Gutan, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania As of November 2015, Romania faces its most important social, political and constitutional crisis in the last quarter-century. If the 1989 Revolution signified a break with a totalitarian communist regime, the widespread street protests of 2015, which led to the fall of the Government, gave a new…