VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee

Since 2015 the Venezuelan migration and refugee crisis has become a central issue in the Latin American political agenda. Hyperinflation, high rates of poverty and violence, and the lack of infrastructure have triggered the exodus of millions of...

Whether and how the GCM will impact national migration orders depends crucially on whether and how both governments and non-state actors engage with it in practice. This article takes Morocco as a case study and focuses on the role of the government...

The present article addresses the question of whether cities can be considered new sites for international compliance, given their explicit inclusion in contemporary international soft law instruments such as the Global Compacts for Migration and...

This article advocates for empowering Australia’s Indigenous custodians through innovative legal devices with respect to their traditional lands. This is because Indigenous Australians possess certain rights and duties that are unique to their...

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...