VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

In order to ensure the peaceful resolution of disputes arising from the implementation of its norms, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has adopted a dispute settlement mechanism that is almost identical to that of the World Trade...

In the last decade, Latin American states introduced a new norm into the international legal landscape through the criminalisation of gender-related killings, also known as femicide. However, when dealing with the human rights violation in domestic...

In many countries beyond the traditional comparative constitutional law canon, the advocates of constitutionalism are increasingly appealing to a supra-national constitutional discourse frequently grounded in best practices for constitutionalism....

The Indian Constituent Assembly Debates is a remarkable deliberative document to create the written constitution of the democratic republic of India based on an open society. By its very nature the text is polyphonic and had multifarious voices with...

The constraint posed by the cost of litigating environmental issues has made public interest litigation (PIL) to be a veritable tool for environmental protection and the realization of the right to a healthy environment in Nigeria. Environmental PIL...

An increasing number of countries are recognising rights of nature across the world. In Germany, however, such rights largely remain uncharted territory with respect to dogmatics. The German legal system is essentially based on an anthropocentric...

The author proposes a methodological exercise of transfer of concepts, norms and principles created in the Ecuadorian legal system - which recognizes Nature as a subject of Rights, and of the right to access justice in particular - to the facts that...

The law is deeply anthropocentric and tends to exclude nature from court proceedings. Consequently, in most states, pollution and destruction of ecosystems or animal abuse cannot be challenged directly by nature. This has been challengend constantly...

Legal academia has historically been diligent in examining legal knowledge as a method of interacting with, controlling, or transforming the world. However, it has been only tangentially concerned with the discourses and practices that constitute...

The Republic of Korea has shown a strong political will to develop its anti-corruption capacities. Research argues that corruption has been - and still is - an issue for the Korean political system before and after its democratization. Even after...