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Extraordinary Renditions: Old Story, New Trend
Arianna Vedaschi and Chiara Graziani Bocconi UniversityUniversity of Genoa Before the outbreak of the terrorist threat in 2001, Blackstone’s claim that “every right when withheld must have a remedy,...
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Brazil’s Authoritarianism Anteroom: A Meeting Between Judges and Military
Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer Federal University of Minas Gerais Editors’ Note: This is an adapted version of a Portuguese-language article published in Consultor Jurídico on 27 October 2018: ‘Na...
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Responsible Drinking rather than Prohibition: Debates on Alcohol in the...
Surya Rajkumar Jindal Global Law School, India On the 24th of November 1948, the Indian Constituent Assembly debated the draft Article 38 which later found itself as Article 47 in the Indian...
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Symposium: Sri Lanka: Democratic Decay or Democratic Demolition?
Dinithi De Alwis Melbourne Law School On the night of October 27th Sri Lanka became plagued by a constitutional crisis, when it was announced that President Maithripala Sirisena had removed Ranil...
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Symposium: Nailing Canards: Why President Sirisena’s Actions Remain Illegal,...
Asanga Welikala Edinburgh Law School Editors’ Note: This text is a cross-post from Groundviews and was published on 11 November 2018. The original text can be viewed here. There have been intense...
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Part I: Androcentric University Attendance Requirements in India: Is there...
Anupriya Dhonchak National Law University, Delhi Editors Note: This is the first of two posts on the Androcentric attendance requirements in India. The second part will be published on November 16....
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Part II: Androcentric University Attendance Requirements in India: Is there...
Anupriya Dhonchak National Law University, Delhi Editors Note: This is the second of two posts on the Androcentric attendance requirements in India. The second part will be published on November 16....
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Editorial - Debate Symposium: 'The Citizens' Assembly in Ireland: A...
Erika Arban & Tom Gerald Daly Co-Editors An Eye-Catching ExperimentOn 25 May 2018 the Irish public voted in a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, which had...
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Symposium: Shaping Public Debate: An Introduction to the Citizens' Assembly
Oran Doyle Trinity College Dublin Abortion was criminalised in Ireland by sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861. During the 1970s and early 1980s, a number of judicial dicta...
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Symposium: Embedding Deliberation in the Political Process
Jane Suiter Dublin City University The Irish Citizens’ Assembly established in 2016 and operating through 2018 built on the model of the previous Convention on the Constitution, which had deliberated...
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Ethiopia: The Confused Federation
Yonatan Fessha EURAC Research A few months ago, Isaias Afeworki, President of the Eritrean government, received delegates from Ethiopia. This would not make big news as receiving dignitaries usually...
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The Citizens’ Assembly and the Disciplining of Activist Demands
Fiona de Londras University of Birmingham Given how contentious abortion tends to be as a matter of both political and legal discourse, it may be tempting to seek out a ‘silver bullet’ from the Irish...
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Symposium: Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Abortion as a Model for Democratic...
Eoin Carolan University College Dublin Ireland’s recent citizens’ assembly and resulting referendum on abortion rights highlights the history-changing impact citizens’ assemblies can have…. Not only...
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Catalonia - Look at the Big Picture: The Alternative to There-is-no-Alternative
Mireia Grau Creus Institut d’Estudis de l’Autogovern, Generalitat de Catalunya Editors’ Note: In October 2017 Catalonia experienced acute political and constitutional crisis following the holding of...
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One Year After the (Symbolic) Unilateral Declaration of Independence in...
Argelia Queralt Jiménez University of Barcelona Editors’ Note: In October 2017 Catalonia experienced acute political and constitutional crisis following the holding of an independence referendum and...
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Symposium: Delaying Tactics or Useful Deliberative Exercises? The Irish...
Laura Cahillane University of Limerick The Irish Citizens’ Assembly came off the back of another relatively successful experiment with deliberative democracy, in the form of the Convention on the...
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Symposium: Abortion and the Citizens' Assembly: Agonist Futures?
Máiréad Enright University of Birmingham The 2016-2017 Irish Citizens’ Assembly served some feminist goals. However, it was structured around four flawed assumptions: First, abortion law was properly...
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The Transformations of Italian Parties
Giovanni Di Cosimo University of Macerata Two pathsThe Italian political system has profoundly changed in the transition from the so-called first Republic to the second. In the early 1990s, the...
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Symposium: Repeal or Replace? The Challenge of Debating Complex...
David Kenny Trinity College Dublin The task facing the Citizens’ Assembly was very challenging. It had to deal with many issues of medical, ethical and legal importance; to hear personal stories...
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Symposium: The Citizens' Assembly Viewed in External Perspective: Useful, but...
Colm O’Cinneide University College London The Irish Citizens’ Assembly: The Magic Formula for Leavening Direct Democracy with Greater Deliberation?Previous posts in this blog symposium have outlined...
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