VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

India’s ‘Representation of the People Act, 1951’ (RPA), includes two provisions that restrict certain categories of electoral speech. The first such provision is Section 123 (3) of the RPA which restricts electoral appeals made by political...

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), after 28 years of conflict with the Argentine state, finally ruled in favor of the rights of the indigenous communities of Salta, Argentina. The Court condemned Argentina for violating the right of...

This paper is contextualised around the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 in India, which recognises both individual and community rights of the Scheduled Tribes and other traditional...

The jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of India is generally celebrated in the academic literature for its creative use of constitutional interpretation to read in certain socioeconomic rights into the ‘right to life’ provision despite their...

This article investigates the contribution of a new type of hybrid actor to fostering the rule of law in weak states. In a number of issue-areas in global governance, hybrid solutions have been experimented with, and the latest manifestation of this...

The question of the consent of indigenous peoples is at least as old as colonization. Indeed, the consent of indigenous peoples was already an issue at the heart of treaty-making between colonial settlers and indigenous peoples. The issue of...

With almost half of the continental water supply, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) still ever remains one of the countries with relatively a low access to safe drinking water for the population. It is this paradox that this paper aims to...

This article seeks to contribute to shifting the focus from an international, towards a regional cultural heritage protection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). While especially the destruction of Palmyra has drawn much of worldwide...

This report sheds light on the history, process and content of the fundamental reform of the Mongolian Constitution, a remarkably genuine piece of legislation carved out after the peaceful revolution of 1990 having undergone now a fundamental...