Tag: Unwritten Constitutions
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Afghanistan’s Unwritten Constitution under the Taliban
—Shamshad Pasarlay, Visiting Lecturer, The University of Chicago Law School [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2022 columnists, see here.] After taking control of Afghanistan last summer, the Taliban wasted no time in tearing down the legal and political order that had developed under the country’s 2004…
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Why Codify?
—Adam Perry, Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary University of London Britain is always tinkering with its constitution. Sometimes it talks about a more radical change: constitutional codification. Over the past few years, talk of constitutional codification has grown a little more serious.