VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

In recent years, Latin America has witnessed two interrelated trends. The Inter-American System of Human Rights has been developing standards relating to the rights of migrants and refugees since its Advisory Opinion (AO) 18/03, and the rights of...

Colombia’s Estatuto Temporal de Protección para Migrantes Venezolanos (ETPV), adopted in 2021, is one of the most ambitious regularization programs in the world, granting nearly two million Venezuelans ten years of legal status, access to social...

This article analyses transformations in migration governance in Argentina and Chile between 2015 and 2025, focusing on access to regular status as a central dimension. Despite their historically divergent normative frameworks -one more...

This article engages in a critical analysis of the European Social Charter’s scheme to safeguard the health of people on the move, including refugees, asylum-seekers and irregular migrants. It aims to assess how the European Committee of Social...

This article examines the development of the legal framework regulating mineral and coal mining in Indonesia, highlighting the adequacy of public participation and its constitutional implications. The study analyses four primary Mining Law...

This article offers a comparative case law analysis of how courts address standing in climate litigation. Taking U.S. federal Article III standing as a reference point, it examines how courts in various jurisdictions confront analogous threshold...

Spain, the colonial administrator of Western Sahara, entered into an agreement with Morocco and Mauritania in 1975. The agreement conceded to territorial claims of Morocco and Mauritania. The people of Western Sahara resisted the agreement and the...

This article explores the evolving role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) in addressing climate-induced human mobility, focusing on its landmark Advisory Opinion AO-32/2025 on Climate Emergency and Human Rights. It argues that the...

Madagascar experiences, once more, political unrest and military intervention in its political life. President Rajoelina, a major political figure especially since 2009, lost his power in October 2025, and it is presently still not clear towards...

The persistence of military coups in the Global South raises new questions in terms of how constitution-makers use constitutions to prevent, deter or resist a coup and to what effect. In this article, we examine how constitution-makers respond to...

In India’s federal constitution, the urban housing agenda is allotted to the state governments. However, the overzealousness of the union government has meant that little of this power has been exercised by the state governments, with policies...

This article interrogates the role of the Public Trust Doctrine in adjudicating urban land disputes, particularly in the context of informal settlements. Through a comparative analysis of Indian and South African jurisprudence, it argues that Indian...

While the establishment of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court is traditionally viewed as an altruistic milestone for institutionalizing democracy and constitutionalism, this narrative remains unsatisfactory when scrutinized through a political...

In India’s booming urban sprawl, Muslim communities are being boxed into corners geographically, socially, and economically. This paper explores the socio-spatial segregation of Muslim communities in Indian megacities, focusing on how systemic...

Possibly more so than ever before, postcolonial states in Africa are pushing back against the hegemony of the liberal democratic model. Such arguments have explained how liberal democracy does not centre socioeconomic rights and group rights enough...

Democracy, as a political system that promotes the participation of all in public management, is implemented in ways that are coloured by the historical and political cultures of the peoples to whom it is to be applied. Cultural and ethnic mosaic,...

Adherence to the Rule of Law is one of the fundamental principles of the East African Community (EAC), anchored in the Treaty establishing the Community. The main judicial organ of the EAC—the East African Court of Justice (EACJ)—and the Supreme...

By replicating the French Constitution at the time of independence, the constitutions of sub-Saharan African states emerging from French colonization incorporated its model of nationhood. Consequently, they largely disregarded the existence of...