VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

Interdisciplinary research in comparative constitutional law and politics is often talked about but rarely theorized or practised. And yet, such research is urgently required to meet the complex problems posed by the rise of populist...

Namibia gained independence and ended the rule of apartheid only in 1990. It is often lauded as a model of human rights-based countries in Africa. Immediately after independence, the country introduced a distinctly rights-based Constitution with a...

The article examines the notion of self-authorship through judicial review in Paul Kahn’s book Making the Case. It argues that, for Kahn, the primary function of the court is to bring the people to see the law as something they have themselves...

This case note discusses the Jarnail Singh case which presented a fresh opportunity before a constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India to undo the legal discrepancies created in Nagaraj. However, efforts to ‘save’ Nagaraj verdict led the...

The article expands Paul Kahn’s cultural analysis of the US Supreme Court’s charisma to EU institutions and, in particular, to the European Central Bank. The aim is twofold: on the one hand, the intention is to show the rich potential of the...

Law is culture, not its consequence. This is one of the fundamental premises of the cultural analysis of law. The content of the category ‘culture’, however, is one of the most elusive in the humanities: it is not easy to specify its limits or...