Parliamentary & Popular Sovereignty

As Conservatives have come to dominate the US Supreme Court, originalist interpretation methods will determine constitutional disputes....

Court packing is considered the nuclear weapon that may unleash total chaos on the American constitutional system. Even in the face of a...

This article challenges the prevailing view that Brexit marks a radical departure from British constitutional tradition. Instead, it...

The debate over the legislature's authority to override Basic Laws or judicial rulings interpreting them is highly charged with political...

Some constitutions use savings clauses to shield from judicial review laws that have been in force prior to their adoption, thus,...

Constitutional statutes challenge the traditional dichotomy between regular statutes and constitutional provisions. They are supposedly...

This article explores the oft-neglected relationships between constitution-making (including amendment) mechanisms and constitutional...

This comment reviews Bruce Ackerman's We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. It traces the major innovations suggested in the book...

Scholars traditionally deduce whether judicial review is weak or strong in a given country from the text of constitutional provisions...

In this article, we suggest a new interpretation of British constitutional history under which the Parliament Act 1911 is treated as a...

It is often asserted that a formal constitution does not necessitate judicial review over primary legislation. Rather, a country may...

Fifteen years after the Israeli Supreme Court decided in Mizrahi that Israel's "Basic Laws" amount to Israel's formal Constitution and it...

In my review of John W.F. Allison’s  The English Historical Constitution: Continuity, Change and European Effects , I examine his...

This is yet another manuscript by one of the most interesting and prolific American constitutional law professors that the Critical Legal...

Albert Venn Dicey served as the Vinerian Chair Professor of English Law at Oxford for twenty‐seven years and reached a level of legal...

When the world is once again preoccupied with constitution-making, this article challenges us to rethink our most basic conceptions...

This article argues that between 1832 and 1911 the British constitution had operated under popular rather than parliamentary sovereignty....

There is an apparent paradox between Dicey’s treatment of parliamentary sovereignty as the central premise of the British constitution...