📢 New Editor Announcement 📢
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Kinfe Yilma @kinfe.bsky.social from the School of Law, University of Leeds onto our editorial team. We recently published his excellent article "Reimagining digital constitutionalism" which can be found below. Welcome Kinfe!
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When intelligence accountability backfires: How states’ strategic legal justifications undermine international law - https://cup.org/4cEedPg
- @sophieduroy.bsky.social
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Abstract of the paper: This article examines the paradoxical effects of international legal accountability processes on the international law of intelligence. In response to increasing exposure of their intelligence activities, liberal democracies have shifted from a national security culture of secrecy to one of legal rationalisation, offering legal justifications to defend and legitimate contested practices. Rather than improving compliance, accountability processes have enabled states to strategically reshape legal norms to accommodate their preferred policies. Focusing on how legal justifications affect international law’s constraining function, the article analyses the effects of legal justifications on three dimensions of legal norms: obligation, precision and delegation. Intertwining doctrinal legal analysis with International Relations scholarship on rhetorical and justificatory approaches to international law, it identifies four causal mechanisms through which strategic legal justifications decrease law’s constraining power on state behaviour and facilitate norm evasion. The article demonstrates how strategic uses of international law for legitimation purposes can gradually alter legal norms without formal changes to legal texts or institutions, ultimately decreasing international law’s constraining power. Shedding light on the limits and risks of legalisation as a regulatory strategy, these findings raise important questions about the effectiveness and adequacy of legal accountability strategies, particularly strategic litigation, in inducing behavioural change.
🚨 New publication
Very happy to share that my article in @globcon.bsky.social has now been published open access.
You can read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S204...
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Global constitutionalism and social movement unionism - https://cup.org/40g8O9E
- Lilach Litor
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New #OpenAccess issue from @globcon.bsky.social -
Global Constitutionalism - Volume 15 - Issue 1 - March 2026 - https://cup.org/4bPQtHy
With papers by @itamann.bsky.social, @antjewiener.bsky.social, @joshaw.bsky.social, et al
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Global Constitutionalism - Volume 15 - Issue 1 - March 2026 - https://cup.org/4bPQtHy
#OpenAccess #HumanRights #Democracy #RuleofLaw
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Sovereignty, Difference & Constitutional Pluralism: The European Union and Canada in Dialog - https://cup.org/46iJTWs
- Keith Cherry
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Global Constitutionalism - Volume 15 - Issue 1 - March 2026 - https://cup.org/4bPQtHy
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Global constitutionalism and/as enlightenment - https://cup.org/45WNidc
- Jared Holley, @antjewiener.bsky.social, Andrea Birdsall, Stephanie Law, Susan Kang & @joshaw.bsky.social
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New #OpenAccess publication with @globcon.bsky.social
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@politikuhh.bsky.social
@uni-hamburg.de
@esrah.uni-hamburg.de @proftonylang.bsky.social @esrah.uni-hamburg.de @sassangholiagha.bsky.social
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Global Constitutionalism - Volume 15 - Issue 1 - March 2026 - https://cup.org/4bPQtHy
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Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law
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(Republican) democracy and the European Court of Human Rights - https://cup.org/4ru1EtV
- Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (University of Edinburgh)
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Constitutionalism beyond territory: Unterritorial democracy, panarchy and pan-citizenship - https://cup.org/3M602Y6
- @davidaltman.bsky.social
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State functions and corporate power in fragile states: a constitutionalism approach - https://cup.org/4k0WT8C
- Francesco Pipicella
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Human rights treaty derogation and COVID-19: WHO guidance and state response - https://cup.org/45bjZ6o
- @audreycomstock7.bsky.social
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📢 Event Announcement 📢
All are invited to attend a roundtable on Global Constitutionalism and Enlightenment Ideas at Edinburgh Law School, to be held March 5 from 5pm to 7pm GMT
Please circulate widely
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Feminist manifestos: Challenging the limits of performative constituent power through political representation - https://cup.org/48DgypT
- @nataliamoralesc.bsky.social
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Interesting times: Transitional justice in the Era of Putin, Xi and Trump 2.0 - https://cup.org/4p3S5RF
- Padraig McAuliffe
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Equality and its discontents: On the diversity of equality doctrines in comparative perspective - https://cup.org/49xohbj
- Niels Petersen
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Stabilising contested normative orders: how international city networks contribute to preventing norm decay - https://cup.org/4oII5Np
- Bastian Loges & Anja P. Jakobi
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Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/48jTNc3
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Out of ‘time out of mind’: The emotional experience of time and the English constitution between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries - https://cup.org/49vWNTe
- Luiza Tavares da Motta
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Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/3KBJbLS
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Global Constitutionalism - Volume 14 - Issue 3 - November 2025 - https://cup.org/48jTNc3
#HumanRights #Democracy #RuleofLaw
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Judicial globalization from below: Nonjudicial actors and transnational legal communication - https://cup.org/46FCUra
- Thora Giallouri & Elli Menounou
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When and how do constitutions recognize the principle of opposition? My article, Constitutionalizing dissent: The universe of opposition rules in African constitutions, published as Open Access in @globcon.bsky.social, now has a volume number. 😊
👉 shorturl.at/qaFfv
Great experience publishing in @globcon.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Fast, efficient & very helpful reviewer reports. Great interdisciplinary journal also for comparativists!
What constitutional forms of democracy exist in the world today and what's their rationale? New paper now published open access in @globcon.bsky.social
@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org
doi.org/10.1017/S204...
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The quasi-federal constitution? Taxonomical influences on interpretation of federalism in India - https://cup.org/3KwLD65
- Nidhi Sharma
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Aboard the ‘Commonist Lifeboat’: Metaphor, custom, materiality: Response to Itamar Mann Agora - cup.org/3JeFuuP
- Antje Scharenberg
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