The outbreak of war in Ukraine on 24 February 2022 shocked the European Union (EU), shattering any hope for perpetual peace and forcing a re-evaluation of international relations.

Russia’s brutal aggression exposed both the EU’s decisive steps towards integrating the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and its long-standing constitutional [...]

AbstractThe capacity-building mechanism in the Biosafety Protocol aims to assist the parties, inter alia, in establishing and implementing national measures concerning genetically

modified organisms (GMOs) that are aligned with the objectives of the Biosafety Protocol. [...]

AbstractOne way to ensure adequate legal protection against existing and emerging forms of mental interference is by specifying the human right to mental integrity. This paper

considers three possible constructions of the scope of this right in human rights law. [...]

In the same vein as John Hart Ely, but with a modern, global focus, a new wave of comparative constitutional scholarship focuses on the role of courts in protecting and promoting

democracy. This article introduces this new wave of ‘comparative political process’ theory (CPPT), and explains its origins and utility, but also suggests it [...]

John Hart Ely’s theory of judicial review was centrally concerned with the role of courts in preserving democracy in the constitutional context of the United States. At first

blush, then, the comparative turn toward Ely might strike a jarring note. This article contributes to the discourse on comparative political process theory, or comparative [...]

Judicial remedies are the critical means by which courts worldwide enforce and implement constitutional rights. Yet constitutional remedies were largely overlooked by early

political process theorists, such as John Hart Ely. Contemporary comparative political process theory (CPPT) or comparative representation-reinforcing theory (CRRT) [...]

This paper seeks to understand modern comparative reflections on John Hart Ely’s work through Comparative Political Process Theory or Comparative Representation-Reinforcing

Theory, and how such approaches can be augmented through the lens of therapeutic jurisprudence. [...]

This study examines the landmark rulings in the “BBI Case”, adjudicated successively by the High Court, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court of Kenya, from the perspective

of comparative political process theory [“CPPT”]. The BBI case involved a constitutional challenge to a set of seventy-four proposed constitutional amendments [...]

Comparative Political Process Theory or Comparative Representative Reinforcement Theory (CPPT/CRRT) is an emerging scholarly field that theorizes about the courts’ role in

the broader comparative universe. Considered an intellectual descendent of John Hart Ely’s work in the American context, CPPT/CRRT emphasizes the courts’ role [...]

The European Court of Human Rights has long been cast as a defender of democracy in Europe. Yet, this idea has not always been at the core of the Court’s perception in the

literature or indeed aligned with its jurisprudence which are often viewed in more Dworkinian terms. [...]