VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

What role does the Indian Constitution play towards the emancipation of the society’s most marginalized and excluded? What vision does the Constitution espouse with respect to basic fundamental rights and freedoms? And what conception of inclusion...

The developments in India since the new millennium have shown that gender equality is a topic in constant flux and dynamic change. In recent years, the Indian Parliament has passed key legislations on maternity benefits, surrogacy, HIV/Aids...

Benin has witnessed almost three decade of bloody dictatorship. To overcome that, Benin initiated the resolution of the recurring political conflicts through the holding of a national conference in February 1990. This national conference marked the...

The Constitutional Council of Burkina Faso has exclusive jurisdiction in constitutional matters. Since 2000 Burkina Faso has a model of centralized review by a specialized Constitutional Council, dispensed separately from, and outside the regular...

The Constitution of the Republic of Mali from 1992 introduced a centralized constitutional review by a specialized court for the first time in the country’s history. Following the example of the French constitutional council, the Constitutional...

The Constitutional Council of the Republic of Senegal (Conseil Constitutionnel, CC) was established in 1992 as a specialized institution for constitutional matters. Within its competencies lie the control of constitutionality of laws and...

At its thirtieth ordinary session, the AU decided that the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) be asked to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the question of immunity of head of states and other senior...

The right to development has evolved over the years, and in the African context, is viewed as a legal right that ensures that the people are part of the development process. The unpacking of the content and application of this right by the African...

This conference celebrates 50 years of our journal “Verfassung und Recht in Übersee”. “Verfassung und Recht in Übersee“, literally “constitution and law overseas”, was founded in 1968. In 1974, acknowledging the fact that from the...

People’s faith in constitutionalism has become an essential factor in how politics are shaped and performed all over the world. Especially in post-socialist and postcolonial countries constitutions have become icons of national identification but...

On 16 June 2017 a special bill on the abdication of the Emperor was promulgated in Japan thereby allowing Emperor Akihito, 83 years old at that time, to step down, the first Emperor to do so in the last 200 years. At first sight, this decision...

This article responds to the criticism that the “second wave” of socio-economic rights judgments by the South African Constitutional Court unduly defers socio-economic dispute resolution to “outside” democratic structures. Given that...