VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

The Trump administration directly attacked and indirectly subverted liberal democracy in many ways. This article describes several pivotal attacks and evaluates the efficacy of efforts to defend liberal democracy. It begins by analyzing how the...

With all key political institutions firmly in Orban’s hands, and with the electoral rules basically tilted to Orban’s advantage, many observers question whether Orban’s regime can be successfully challenged domestically, from within. As a...

South Africa embraced constitutional democracy in 1994 following the collapse of the Apartheid regime. The constitution that was finally passed in 1996 promised the development of a social democratic society. Within two decades, much of the promise...

The Chinese approach to law and development has been perceived in terms of experimentalism and resistance towards globally applicable development models. In recent years, however, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideologues and pro-establishment legal...

This paper analyses newly regulatory moves towards Foreign Direct Investment – FDI in Brazil. For that purpose, this paper explores the key economic rationale for regulating FDI and provides a legal baseline based on relevant FDI screening regimes...

On September 23, 2022, the UN Human Rights Committee (Committee) published its groundbreaking decision in Daniel Billy et al. v. Australia, in which it found that Australia’s failure to adequately protect indigenous islanders from the Torres...

Using an interdisciplinary approach essentially based on legal and economic sciences, this study examines the relevance of the consecration in Congolese law of the free holding and use of foreign currency in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On the...

This study reviews the past, present, and future of agrarian jurisdiction in the context of the agrarian reforms in Colombia with a focus on violent conflicts in rural areas. The methodology used is that of a multi-method case study and legal...

Ten years ago, six institutions came together to establish a joint doctoral programme. The shared motivations behind this project were to improve the quality of doctoral research that we encountered and to create a space for qualitative research...

This contribution serves as a primer, identifying critical challenges to the teaching of Law and Development in Africa. It details landmarks in the African development trajectory, highlighting the vacuum which its omission from the scope of law and...