Constitutionalist ideas inspire men and women around the world to claim their rights and build political movements towards the establishment of legal and political orders. The commitment to the three foundational features of the global constitutionalism — human rights, democracy and the rule of law — is not a commitment to abolish or flatten national...
A role of “constitutionalism“ in the recent constitutional debates on Article 9 (the “pacifism“ clause) in Japan
The paper aims to explore a role of the concept of “constitutionalism“ in the recent constitutional debates concerning the re‐interpretation and amendment of the Constitution of Japan (particularly Article 9 which has been cherished as a ‘pacifism‘ clause by the Japanese people since itspromulgation) by shedding light on two intertwining elements of constitutionalism: one works...
Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Japan?
Historically speaking, in the late 19th century, the national goal was to reorganize a typically feudalistic Japan into a modern nation‐state comparable to western developed countries of that time. It was accomplished in its own way through a modernization of Japanese political, economic and social structures and through an introduction of western constitutionalism to Japanese...
Cosmopolitanizing engagement of the South Korean Constitutional Court
Rights practices in South Korea are cosmopolitanizing and have rich implications for the future of Global Constitutionalism, for its further development as a truly global project. Not having a regional human rights system, but with active participation by global-minded rights-holders, the South Korean Constitutional Court serves as a venue where international human rights law interacts...
The future of constitutionalism in Hungary and Poland
After two decades of democratic consolidation, two member states of the European Union, Hungary and Poland are now in the process of authoritarian backsliding. The presentation will describe the current state of affairs (from the lack of persistent and long term mobilisation on behalf of constitutionalism to the governmental attacks on the internal and external...
The challenges and opportunities China presents for the evolution of Global Constitutionalism
The presentation put things in a global perspective, discussing in particular the significance of the rise of China.