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Event: SOAS Symposium: Law, Politics and Constitution-Making in the Arab Spring
20 March 2015, 15:25-19:00 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, London, UK 15:25 Welcome Notes: Dr. Nimer Sultany, Law Department, SOAS Professor Matthew Craven, Dean,...
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ConstitutionUK: Crowdsourcing the UK Constitution
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) at LSE is crowdsourcing a new written codified constitution for the UK. Using an innovative online platform, constitutionuk.com, the IPA is asking the British...
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Stefan Theil: Three insights from Peter Häberle’s “Preambles in the text and...
Preambles are a hallmark of constitutions, and questions regarding their inclusion and content are an important part of the drafting process: a clear majority of the 194 constitutions analysed by the...
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Stefan Theil: Constitutions as culture: Two insights from Peter Häberle’s...
Constitutions are the cultural achievement of centuries of historical legal development, an expression of the cultural self-presentation of a people. For all their variety, constitutions seek to set...
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Harshan Kumarasingham: Eastminster: the Westminster model in British Asia
Cross-posted from the Constitution Unit blog. The ‘Westminster model’ outside the British Isles tends to be associated with the former British settler colonies such as Australia, Canada and New...
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Panagiotis Doudonis:Greece is no longer Europe’s black sheep: coronavirus,...
What does it take to become a paradigmatic case of a constitutional state acting in reaction to a pandemic? A government listening to healthcare experts and a constitutional structure that has...
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Brian Christopher Jones: A single written UK constitution may only make...
Arguments for and against a single written (or ‘codified’) UK constitution often revolve around flexibility versus rigidity or transparency versus opacity. Recently, another common objection is that...
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Lucien Carrier: The Problems with Institutional Reform in Fragmented...
Clearly, liberal democracy is at a crossroad. Many are dissatisfied with the state of political affairs in their national countries. The news is filled with stories of uprisings in Chile or Bolivia,...
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Max Taylor: The Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill: Missed...
The newly introduced Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Bill (“the Bill”) – like the Draft Fixed-term Parliaments Act (Repeal) Bill which preceded it – is a missed opportunity. It has failed to...
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