VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

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...

This text is an only slightly modified version of the Herbert Krüger Memorial Lecture that I held upon invitation of the Arbeitskreis Überseeische Verfassungsvergleichung on 4 July 2014 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. My point of departure is...

The North-Eastern Indian state of Meghalaya seems to have operated like an independent country when it comes to coal mining. Reckless, unscientific and deeply harmful coal mining has recently caused havoc to the local environment, ruining the scenic...

The debate about policing in India usually focuses on the lack of accountability and professionalization of the organization. Writing a book on this topic is most popular with former high-ranking police officers. Analyzing the law of the land almost...

The study investigates and entails a crossed analysis of the legal and constitutional processes through which a state of emergency and a state of siege are brought into being within the contexts of Cameroon and South Africa. In both countries, a...

In the effort to devise solutions to the problem of government instability and turnover, the Indian debate over the last 25 years has turned repeatedly, among other things, to a seemingly easy fix, namely the introduction of the constructive vote of...