VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

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...

The new Andean constitutionalism centred around the concepts of plurinationality and decolonization tackles centuries of indigenous subordination and strives for the revaluation of indigenous culture. Territorial autonomy is currently considered a...

Although Alberto Fujimori, the father of neo-populism stepped down almost 20 years ago, Peru is still struggling with his legacy: Fujimorismo is still dividing society and the Constitution of 1993 although amended various times since Fujimori...

Comparison of local governments in federal systems helps design new policies. In particular, this study presents federal asymmetries of state and municipal governments in Latin American countries. To this end, the hypothesis states that nations with...

During carnival 2018, Brazilian mass media reported about a dramatic increase of crime and violence in Rio de Janeiro. Former President Michel Temer thereupon signed a decree that announced a federal intervention into Rio de Janeiro´s competence...

Despite the ambitious reforms executed from the 80’s aimed at increasing the political, fiscal and administrative independence of Colombia’s sub-national entities (municipalities and departments), there has been a reversal in the...