VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

This overview article introduces the special issue on “Varieties of Constitutionalism: Contestations of Liberalism in Comparative Constitutional Law”, which concludes a collaborative research project with the same theme. The project mapped...

In his insightful paper, Theunis Roux argues that there are two dominant narratives about the constitutional transitions in India and South Africa. The Liberal Progressivist Narrative (“LPN”), understands these constitutions as the application...

There are currently two contrasting ways of narrating the Indian and South African constitutional transitions. The first contends that they were moments when liberal constitutionalism was adapted to the circumstances of the Global South. In contrast...

This comment takes up the invitation to critically engage Theunis Roux’s paper “Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism in India and South Africa”, focusing only on the latter of his two subject countries....