That's it! 🎬 Another World Comparative Law Annual Meeting is in the books. Thanks to all of you - hope to see you again next year!

Looking forward to next time!

"Dark times are coming for the judiciary and constitutional democracy in Mexico." MARIANA VELASCO-RIVERA (Mariana VR) on the ruling MORENA Party’s plan to overhaul the judiciary -and why Mexican democracy is facing its greatest threat. 👉 verfassungsblog.de/a-democratic-m…

Is Pakistan 🇵🇰 heading towards a new constitutional crisis? Today, after a long overnight session, the 26th constitutional amendment was passed, aimed at restructuring the judiciary. MOEEN CHEEMA and MARVA KHAN CHEEMA provide an initial assessment: verfassungsblog.de/pakistans-26-c…

📘New issue out now: Who owns constitutionalism? Debate: Liberation or perpetual suppression? Theunis Roux brings both 'grand narratives' on constitutional developments in 🇮🇳 and 🇿🇦 into dialogue! Find out what they have in comon (open access)➡️ nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0506-7…

#⃣1⃣ We are honoured to announce the WCL/VRÜ Volume 55 article prize winner: Fabio de Sa e Silva 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇳's outstanding editorial outlines a new agenda for the study of „autocratic legalism“. Still a great read – open access available ➡️ nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/0506-7….

💡Looking for a challenge? New VRÜ-WCL Call for papers: “emerging ‘human-centred’ paradigm for the delivery of justice” ⚙️Contributions with varied methodological approaches & research designs welcome! Submit a 500 word abstract until 22 Nov 2024➡️uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/faku…

💡Call for Abstracts: For our special Issue "The City as a Contested Space" ⚙️We invite contributions that analyze the constitutional dimensions of urban housing crises from a comparative perspective! Deadline: March 15 2025 | More information➡️voelkerrechtsblog.org/calls-for-pape…

🆕Symposium📝Anmol Jain introduces our new ‘Workshop My Paper Symposium’, which will feature comparative reflections on Theunis Roux’s recent article in World Comparative Law / VRUe: ‘Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa' ⬇️⬇️

Anmol Jain Theunis Roux World Comparative Law / VRUe blog-iacl-aidc.org/2025-posts/202…

📘New issue feat. Symposium "Varieties of Constitutionalism: Contestations of Liberalism in Comparative Constitutional Law." Read Michael Riegner on why we must better understand challenges, engage with critique, & adapt to change for #constitutionalresilience: nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

How do courts respond to #disinformation in democratic #backsliding? In our recent issue Clara Iglesias Keller and Diego Werneck Arguelhes examine how 🇧🇷 courts navigate the tensions between their role in protecting democracy and institutional limitations🔓 nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

How to respond if right-wing actors instrumentalize the past? Jessica Holl & Jasmin Wachau ask to w. extent 🇧🇷 & 🇩🇪 juridified their past. Do certain ways of dealing w. the #memory of past injustices yield better results?🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050… Follow➡️bsky.app/profile/wclvru…

H. Küpper & William Partlett made the excellent proposal to explain constitutional backlash in Eastern Europe by Soviet/ Russian imperialism. I argue that the crisis of European constitutionalism is also shaped by German/Western coloniality in EE World Comparative Law / VRUe

📘New #issue out now! Discover a broad range of articles, including an inspirational reflection by Dinesha Samararatne on personal experiences with challenges, opportunities, and hopes of CCL from & within the #GlobalSouth (keynote @ WCL Annual Conference ‘24) 🔓d7fb2.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/cl/f/sh/6rq…

Exciting news! The call for workshops for the IACL-AIDC World Congress is now open . Submit your proposals here and I'll see you on Bogota: wccl2026.com/en/call-for-wo… #wccl2026

Are 🇮🇳 judges narrowing the concept of religion in church-state separation cases to privilege Hinduism? Read Darshan Datar on the role of the judicial concept of religion in the rise of the Hindu majoritarian project in our current 📘: 🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

Could the Emir of 🇰🇼's decisions to dissolve parliament be subject to judicial review? Islam Ibrahim Chiha and Abdelhafiz Elshemy of Qatar University trace how 🇰🇼 Constitutional Court's landmark decisions led to legislative confirmation of the court's powers:🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

How do legal practices designed to protect the environment end up violating the rights of Indigenous peoples? In their study of 🇧🇷national parks, Clara Adão and Raquel Coelho de Freitas reveal how 🇧🇷 environmental law promotes territorial exclusion:🔓nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/050…

🆕Symposium Post📝 New symposium post: To round out the Workshop my Paper symposium focussed on his World Comparative Law / VRUe article, ‘Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa’, Theunis Roux responds to the symposium contributors ⬇️