On July 3, General Fattah al-Sisi, the 58 year old Chief of the Egyptian Army announced on television […]
Category Archive: Comparative law
It seems Australia’s new (and also former) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd likes to swear. There is a leaked […]
Over the past few months, a heated debate about the role of the Constitution in Chinese political life […]
In Australia as in England, courts began “reading down” legislative grants of broad and seemingly unfettered discretionary power […]
The basic structure doctrine, as first expounded by the Indian Supreme Court in the early 1970s in Kesavanand […]
I’m grateful to Paul Daly for bringing to my attention the Irish High Court’s Fleming decision and the […]
Decisions on when to end one’s life are unquestionably of the greatest intimacy. Yet there is a clear […]
Readers will be forgiven for not noticing, but on 8 April 2013 Lord Justice Hughes and Lord Justice […]
I Parliamentary sovereignty in other countries In this post I defend the absence of judicial strike down powers […]
A recent judgment in an interlocutory hearing in the Federal Court of Australia has raised the fascinating question […]
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