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• Ackerman's higher lawmaking in comparative constitutional perspective: Constitutional moments as constitutional failures?

  4 avril, par Choudhry, S.
  Bruce Ackerman speaks with two voices. While he is one of the most prominent students of comparative constitutionalism in the U.S. legal academy, Ackerman is better known for his imaginative theory of American constitutional development. In the latter voice, Ackerman observes that, (...)
  

• Democracy and collective decision making

  4 avril, par Issacharoff, S.
  Around the world, traditional barriers to judicial engagement with the structure of democratic politics have fallen remarkably as courts increasingly entertain first-order questions about the structures of governance. This article explores judicial responses to a particularly vexing problem: (...)
  

• The role of dignity in equality law: Lessons from Canada and South Africa

  4 avril, par O'Connell, R.
  This paper examines the link made on occasion between the concept of dignity and substantive equality; it is further noted that dignity can have very different meanings in different contexts. While the notion of dignity does not often play a substantive role in the resolution of decisions, (...)
  

• The gender of representation: On democracy, equality, and parity

  4 avril, par Ruiz, B. R., Rubio-Marin, R.
  The debate regarding the statutory introduction of gender parity in electoral lists has been led, on the one hand, by those who envisage parity as a way to attain substantive equality between the genders. The opposition has been led by those who, on the other hand, reject it as going against (...)
  

• European Court of Human Rights: Consent to IVF treatment

  4 avril, par Thornton, R.
  Consent to IVF treatment—Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990—male gamete donor withdrawing consent to storage or use of embryos—European Convention on Human Rights—right to respect for privacy
  

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