Call for Papers for Special Issue: Rethinking Democracy via the Practice of Constitutional Adjudication

For details, please consult the attached and hyperlinked call (PDF).

The principal output of the initiative on which this Call is based in a special issue proposal that invites to advance a variety of approaches for conceptual, comparative, empirical and critical study of the relationship between conceptions of democracy and the practices of constitutional courts. Rather than a schematic overview following the same approach to identifying and analysing references to democracy in a sample of decisions by constitutional courts in different jurisdictions, it aims to play close attention to the background assumptions emerging from both normative and empirical works, including theories of democracy that might underpin constitutional courts’ engagement with it. Consequently, the special issue is particularly welcoming to ‘globalise’ the discourse on democracy and constitutional adjudication by (re-)appraising conceptions of democracy from global socio-legal thought. 

Global Advisory Committee: 

• Professor (Dr.) B S Chimni (O.P. Jindal Global University)
• Professor (Dr.) Michaela Hailbronner (University of Münster)
• Professor (Dr.) Gábor Halmai (European University Institute and Eötvös Loránd University)
• Professor (Dr.) Yuko Kasuya (Keio University)
• Professor (Dr.) Marlene Wind (University of Copenhagen)