Tag: Written Constitution
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Invitation to Friends of I-CONnect: Symposium on “Does Québec Need a Written Constitution?”
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Friends of I-CONnect are invited to attend a full-day symposium on “Does Québec Need a Written Constitution,” on Thursday, March 31, at Yale University. The program is structured around three panels and a keynote address by former Québec premier Jean Charest, whose cabinet considered codifying a constitution for the province.
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Constitutional Politics of Institutions: The Call for a British Constitution
—Susan M. Sterett, Virginia Tech A written constitution for Britain is even making the American news again, inspired not least by the debates about independence, with the anniversary of the Magna Carta adding continuity and contrast.[1] American news describes the call for a written constitution as a response to immediate problems.
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Why *Judicial* Review: A Preliminary Typology of Scholarly Arguments
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School It was perhaps inevitable that the advent of written constitutionalism would quicken the rise of judicial review. The writtenness of a constitution creates a ready-made argument in favor of judicial review, namely that the constitutional text sets the standard against which the constitutionality of governmental action must be measured,…