Berihun Gebeye

I am delighted that my latest article, "Jurisdemocracy: An Approach to Constitutionalism in the Postcolony", will be published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law. It's a true labor of love.

All comments are welcome🙏

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Our new issue assesses constitutionalism in the age of extremes. Explore these extremes and potential responses with pieces on #academicfreedom, #economicinequality, #executivepower, #diplomaticextremes, #AI, #constitutionalreform, #courts, #teachinglaw, and more.

Read at tinyurl.com/5n7zxtp6.

In this paper, forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Law and Authoritarianism, edited by Cora Chan, Madhav Khosla, Benjamin Liebman, and Mark Tushnet, I shed light on the nature and structure of authoritarianism in Africa. All comments welcome! Link to the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

An important debate to which this is a very useful contribution, needing more and broader, similarly frank and clear-sighted contributions, responding to experience.

What an excellent piece! Decolonization is often premised on a Manichean view of the “colonizer” and the “colonized”. Tarun Khaitan, once again, reveals a key intellectual flaw in decolonial thought from within, reminding us to think more deeply about improving conditions in postcolonial societies.

Engelking on Kant, Kelsen and International Law Wojciech Engelking, University of Warsaw, has published How Kantian is Kelsen’s Early Theory of International Law? in Law and History Revie...

I enjoyed this paper. Kelsen's attempt to map out how democratic self-governance at national level could be brought into harmony with wider frameworks of international governance was admirable - and IMHO is still relevant today.
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In his new article for CS, Ran Hirschl assesses the state of #comparative constitutional studies and the divergent constitutional trajectories of the #UnitedStates and #Canada in #NorthAmerica.

Read more at tinyurl.com/47rfnap8. Read our full issue on the State of the Field at tinyurl.com/bdd99zh8!

Many congratulations, Michael!

We are thrilled to relaunch this year as an international, multilingual, open access journal, published by the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law.

First reissue out this June! Read more at tinyurl.com/mtsuc85u and follow to get future issues!

An excellent review of Oromay, Gautam.

How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵)

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Any public lawyers suffering existential ennui should note that Trump's tariffs are possible thanks to (i) a sweeping transfer of Congressional taxation powers to the executive under an emergency powers rubric & (ii) case-law hollowing out the US non-delegation doctrine. See, we matter!!

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

A Research Fellow position at the UCL Laws's Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism is open for application. The application deadline is 31 March 2025.

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Hirschl & Slawnych, three takes on comparative constitutional history. Remarks on war and innovation.

What do I need to know, and when do I need to know it? Democracy, the news, and hedgehogs Half a century ago, the most important question in US-American politics was ‘What did the President know, and when did he know it?’ Today, with even that level of political accountability a distant me...

The impossibility of keeping up with the torrent of news about the second Trump administration (alongside many other important events) set me off on a slightly philosophical re-consideration of how I consume news media. So, I wrote a blog post about it. See if you agree: www.idea.int/blog/what-do...

Constitution Building in Africa | CEU summer course

This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in constitutional law in Africa. The program brings together practitioners, scholars, and graduate students in the beautiful Budapest. They have also some funding.

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Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa Since the 1990s, African incumbents have engaged in forms of rule-bending that weaken democratic institutions. The democratic backsliding witnessed weaponises law through processes of autocratic la...

On a day when resistance to autocratization seems particularly urgent, Lise Rakner @liserakner.bsky.social and I are pleased that our article on "Legalized resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa" is out - and open access. @lawtransform.bsky.social
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Canada, Trump and the new world order Michael Ignatieff on what the US president-elect’s threats mean for the Americas and beyond

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Berihun Gebeye

I have created a personal website, and it has an opportunity section. Check it out: berihungebeye.com/opportunity

Hirschl on comparative constitutional scholarship's World Series syndrome.