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Emerging Patterns Of Global Constitutionalization: Toward A Conceptual Framework, Karolina Milewicz
Emerging Patterns Of Global Constitutionalization: Toward A Conceptual Framework, Karolina Milewicz
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Global constitutionalization is a recent phenomenon that is decisively changing the character of the international order. This argument was put forward recently by scholars of international law and has gained significance in the institutional school of thought. However, the notion of "global constitutionalization" is often used imprecisely and has so far been largely neglected in the field of international relations. It still lacks a consistent and operational definition, which would enable political scientists and international relations scholars to conduct empirical research. This article explores a preliminary framework for the concept of global constitutionalization.
Global Constitutionalism – Process and Substance, Symposium. …
Misreading And Mobility In Constitutional Texts: A Nineteenth Century Case, Iza Hussin
Misreading And Mobility In Constitutional Texts: A Nineteenth Century Case, Iza Hussin
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
This article explores the case of the adoption of Southeast Asia's first constitution (Johor, 1895) to articulate a fundamental problem of translation-the ambiguity and multiplicity of law's language. Closer attention to this problem helps raise a number of possibilities for rethinking the relationship between law, language, and mobility: firstly, polyphony, dissonance, and divergence in law's language reveals a plethora of political possibilities, audiences, and actors in the making of law; secondly, these ambiguities and multiplicities are integral to law's mobility; thirdly, rather than transmissions of law from center to periphery, law moves in circulations that are iterative, contingent, and patterned. …