VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

Courts can play a critical role in protecting the democratic participation of opposition parties. In this article, we examine the role of apex courts in South Africa and Zimbabwe as forums for democratic contestation by opposition parties....

This article categorizes Pakistan as a hybrid regime, as opposed to one operating under deep state, by tracing the roots of military dominance to the colonial Martial Race Theory. In this context, the article dissects who constitutes as political...

Fourth-branch accountability can be characterized as a constitutional trust-type mandate to provide intrastate nonpartisan accountability with a broad repertoire of institutional capacities. Fourth-branch institutions play a significant role in...

The scholarship on the role of opposition in parliaments has highlighted a dual role for the opposition, that is to extract accountability from the government and to be prepared as the “government-in-waiting”. However, there are significant...

Parliamentary opposition in Morocco has long been fragmented and confined. However, the Moroccan Constitution of 2011 solemnly enshrines the status of the parliamentary opposition, demonstrating the sincerity of its recognition. This enshrinement,...

When courts are faced with claims for unenumerated constitutional rights, it is very common for them to state that the separation of powers requires them to stay away from recognising such rights. I scrutinise the validity of this argument through a...