Centre for Constitutions in Context
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Centre for Constitutions in Context at Warwick Law School | https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/research/centres/constitutions/
📣 2026 CCC Annual Lecture will be delivered by world-leading political scientist and Warwick alumna Prof Pippa Norris (Harvard), discussing the Cultural Roots of Democratic Backsliding based on a forthcoming book with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. 🗓️ 23 Sept 2026 🕑 2-3:30pm BST 📍 Online via MS Teams
On 4 Mar 2026, we hosted an online roundtable on #AI and #Constitutional_Law. Participating were: Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica), @jenraso.bsky.social (McGill), Mila Versteeg (Virginia) & @richardalbert.bsky.social (Texas), moderated by CCC co-director @davidvitale.bsky.social.
On my way to London for this talk. Looking forward to being back at City, where I did my own PhD and the discussions to come this evening. This is from 5.30-7.00 tonight. www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Book Launch: Dr Alex Powell, Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration | City St George's, University of London
The International Law and Affairs Group is delighted to welcome Dr Alex Powell, Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick, to discuss his recently published monograph.
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On 4 Mar 2026, we are hosting an online roundtable on #AI and #Constitutional_Law. Participating: Aziz Huq (Chicago), Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica), @jenraso.bsky.social (McGill), Mila Versteeg (Virginia) & @richardalbert.bsky.social (Texas), moderated by CCC co-director @davidvitale.bsky.social.
Tomorrow's the day! I will be doing the first public launch event for my book at the University of Exeter. If you are free, please come along or join online! 📚 www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...
Book Launch: Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration
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On 2 Feb 2026, 2pm GMT, we will host a roundtable on the @universitypress.cambridge.org book 📙 by Mariëtta van der Tol (Cambridge), "Constitutional Intolerance: The Fashioning of the Other in Europe's Constitutional Repertoires". Fabio Wolkenstein (Vienna) & Signe Larsen (Warwick) will comment.
⌛ Less than 2 weeks until our exciting roundtable discussion on #Contextual Approaches to #Constitutional_Law in #Academic_Publishing with reps from 6 leading comparative con law journals, moderated by Prof @tomginsburg.bsky.social (Chicago) & chaired by CCC co-director Dr @davidvitale.bsky.social.
This new research seminar on Fourth Branch Constitutionalism is happening today! You can still register via Eventbrite to attend online (see details👇), or if on the Warwick campus, drop in S0.17.
Centre for Constitutions in Context@cccwarwick.bsky.social · 11mo agoOn 5 Nov 2025, 4pm GMT, we will host a seminar on new research by Prof Michael Pal (Ottawa) on #Fourth_Branch #Constitutionalism. Prof @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social (LSE) and Dr Ming-Sung Kuo (Warwick) will be responding; and CCC co-director Dr @maramalagodi.bsky.social will chair.
There is still (some) time to register for this roundtable on the OUP book "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment" by @rehanabeyratne.bsky.social! Discussion from Brenda Cossman (Toronto) & @apowelllaw.bsky.social (Warwick), chaired by CCC co-director @maramalagodi.bsky.social.
On 19 Nov 2025, 2pm GMT, we will host an online roundtable on #Contextual Approaches to #Constitutional_Law in #Academic_Publishing with reps from 6 leading comparative con law journals, moderated by Prof @tomginsburg.bsky.social (Chicago) & chaired by CCC co-director Dr @davidvitale.bsky.social.
On 5 Nov 2025, 4pm GMT, we will host a seminar on new research by Prof Michael Pal (Ottawa) on #Fourth_Branch #Constitutionalism. Prof @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social (LSE) and Dr Ming-Sung Kuo (Warwick) will be responding; and CCC co-director Dr @maramalagodi.bsky.social will chair.
On 22 Oct 2025, 2pm BST, we will host a roundtable on the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book by @rehanabeyratne.bsky.social (Western Sydney), "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment". Brenda Cossman (Toronto) & Alex Powell (Warwick) commenting; @maramalagodi.bsky.social chairing.
🗓️ Mark your calendars! Our first event will be an Inaugural Lecture delivered by the renowned and influential scholar and practitioner, Jill Cottrell Ghai, who will discuss Context in Comparative Constitutional Law. The lecture will be online (via an MS Teams town hall) on 16 Sept 2025 at 2pm BST.
⭐️ CCC co-director @davidvitale.bsky.social has a new publication in the Cambridge Law Journal titled “Reimagining the Trust Conception of Legitimate Expectations” ⭐️
David Vitale@davidvitale.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New Publication🚨 I have a new article in the Cambridge Law Journal titled “Reimagining the Trust Conception of Legitimate Expectations”, available Open Access in FirstView here: doi.org/10.1017/S000... @cambup-law.cambridge.org @cccwarwick.bsky.social
🤩 Congratulations to CCC co-director @maramalagodi.bsky.social - the co-editor-in-chief of the newly re-launched @constlstudies.bsky.social - on the publication of the re-launched journal's first issue. For more info, read Dr Malagodi's latest UKCLA blogpost: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/03/u...
Mara Malagodi: The State of the Comparative Constitutional Law Field and the Re-Launch of Constitutional Studies
Over the past three decades or so, comparative constitutional law has greatly advanced both as a site of scholarly inquiry and professional practice. As the field’s jurisdictional and thematic focu…
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⭐ CCC member Dr Ming-Sung Kuo has a new publication in the Asian Journal of Comparative Law titled "Progress, Continuity, and Constitutional Amendment: Envisaging Legitimacy in the pre-Global South's Quest for Modernity in China and Taiwan" ⭐ doi.org/10.1017/asjc...
Progress, Continuity, and Constitutional Amendment: Envisaging Legitimacy in the pre-Global South's Quest for Modernity in China and Taiwan | Asian Journal of Comparative Law | Cambridge Core
Progress, Continuity, and Constitutional Amendment: Envisaging Legitimacy in the pre-Global South's Quest for Modernity in China and Taiwan - Volume 19 Issue 3
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⭐ CCC co-director @maramalagodi.bsky.social has co-edited a new Special Section of the European Constitutional Law Review on "Gender, Populism, and Constitutional Degradation", including a co-written article on "Conceptualising the Link between Constitutional Degradation and Gender Populism" ⭐
Dr Mara Malagodi@maramalagodi.bsky.social · last yr.Check out our Special Section on #Gender #Populism and #ConstitutionalDegradation for @euconst.bsky.social co-edited w/ Elettra Stradella & Stefano Osella 1/3
New research centre at Warwick Law: The Centre for Constitutions in Context (CCC) (@cccwarwick.bsky.social). Founded by @maramalagodi.bsky.social and me, the CCC investigates constitutions in their broader context. Follow us for information, including events and news: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
Last Thursday (12 June), I delivered the keynote at an event held @tilburg-university.bsky.social, organised by the Dutch Association of Constitutional Law and the VWR. In my keynote, I discussed my new book: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... Thanks to the organisers and participants for a wonderful event!
#DesignTheLawNepal video instruction for Legal Design Toolkit on sexual and reproductive health rights in Nepal — filmed with @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Emily Allbon for our joint project w/ iProbono and LAPSOJ youtube.com/watch?v=u96V...
Legal Design User Manual Explainer Video
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Check out our Special Section on #Gender #Populism and #ConstitutionalDegradation for @euconst.bsky.social co-edited w/ Elettra Stradella & Stefano Osella 1/3
Cambridge University Press - Law@cambup-law.cambridge.org · last yr.New issue of European Constitutional Law Review now available, including a special section on Gender, Populism and Constitutional Degradation. 📚 cup.org/4kuuPKe @euconst.bsky.social
