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There are currently two contrasting ways of narrating the Indian and South African constitutional transitions. The first contends that they were moments when liberal constitutionalism was adapted to the circumstances of the Global South. In contrast...
Theunis Roux’s “Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa” is an important piece of comparative constitutional scholarship that will be of interest not only to scholars of the...
This comment takes up the invitation to critically engage Theunis Roux’s paper “Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa”, focusing only on the latter of his two subject countries....
Constitutionalism has been in crisis in India and in South Africa in recent times. Theunis Roux, a South African comparative constitutional scholar who has also written extensively on the Indian constitutional experience, is particularly well-placed...
In his insightful paper, Theunis Roux argues that there are two dominant narratives about the constitutional transitions in India and South Africa. The Liberal Progressivist Narrative (“LPN”), understands these constitutions as the application...
Studies of constitutionalism in the Global South often chart the rise and achievements of liberal constitutionalism. In this contribution, I suggest that we also need to consider the decline of constitutional democracy as part of studies of...