VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

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...

In 2015, Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) jointly committed to support the Sustainable Development Goals. This milestone illustrates the gradual integration of the principle of sustainable development in MDB activities over the last forty...

Building on the Brunnée and Toope’s theory of interactional law and its use of Fuller’s criteria of legality, this paper argues that the World Bank safeguards, especially their reincarnation through the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF),...

This article focuses on an examination of the substantive content of section 7 of Law No 96/12 of 5th August 1996 on Environmental Management in Cameroon (Law No 96/12) and argues that the incompleteness of section 7 has made it difficult for people...

Recent corruption scandals pivoting around South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma have knocked much of the gloss off of the country’s rosy constitutional face. But it’s democracy is proving to be resilient in the face of severe challenges to...

Since the 1990s, there has been a “global explosion of freedom of information” as new constitutions have enshrined the right to information, legislators have enacted access to information acts, and courts have enforced and expanded individual...