VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

This contribution reviews Ran Hirschl’s book “Comparative Matters” to discuss the discipline of comparative constitutional law. It contrasts his social science approach, informed by comparative politics, with a more lawyerly approach he very...

Comparative law seems to suggest that constitutions, and the accompanying ideology of constitutionalism, cross national and cultural borders seamlessly, making Global Constitutionalism a likely reality. Yet, there are constitutional items - odd...

Global South legal comparison is taking off, and transformative constitutionalism has become one of its key slogans as a description of the expansive constitutional jurisprudence of many Global South courts. This is an important development. But its...

Working as a comparative lawyer means engaging with foreign law. In the process of comparing, the comparatist creates a relationship between the Self and the Other and tries to identify commonalities and differences. This always goes along with the...

The proposal for a Uniform Civil Code for India to replace the existing religious personal law system appears to be the source of a never-ending debate. It has acted as a catalyst for discourses on national integration, modernity, secularism and...

The right to development is a legally non-binding treaty under international law. In this paper, however, the distinction between legally binding and legally non-binding treaties in international law, around which many of the controversies regarding...

In 2002, the right to free and compulsory primary education was added to the Indian Constitution’s fundamental rights catalogue as a new Article 21A. Fourteen years later, in spite of its elevation to the constitutional text, the right to...

This introductory article picks up the key themes developed by the three articles in this Special Issue and wraps them into a wider discussion about creating new opportunities for productive use of the internal pluralities of ‘law’, especially...

The concept of multi-door courthouse is rapidly gaining currency in Nigeria, having been recently introduced into the civil procedure rules of courts and even backed up by legislation. This work seeks to define the role of lawyers in fostering...

This report examines the workshop “The Battle for International Law in the Decolonization Era”, which took place on 5-7 November 2015 in Berlin, under the joint direction of Jochen von Bernstorff from Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and...