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Book forum on Shipra Chordia's Proportionality in Australian Constitutional Law: Murray Wesson

Murray Wesson

Proportionality is a vexed topic in Australian constitutional law. On the one hand, the High Court has for many years relied upon forms of proportionality to characterise laws enacted with respect to purposive and incidental law-making powers, and to determine the validity of laws burdening constitutional limits. On the other hand, …

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The Global South and liberal constitutionalism: incommensurable opposites?

Theunis Roux

Philipp Dann, Michael Riegner and Maxim Bönnemann’s edited collection of essays on The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law constitutes a major advance in scholarly thinking on this topic. Theorising the Global South as an ‘epistemic, methodological and institutional sensibility’ (p. 3), Dann and his co-editors persuasively show …

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