From 7 to 11 April 2013, researchers from the Constitutional Transitions Clinic travelled to Tunis, where they presented their research on pressing constitutional issues unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), at a conference hosted at the University of Tunis Al-Manar’s Faculty of Law and Political Science. The team included 16 researchers from […]
On 10 April 2013, researchers from the Constitutional Transitions Clinic met with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki to discuss Tunisia’s ongoing constitutional transition. The meetings were part of the clinic’s four-day trip to Tunisia, during which they also met members of the Tunisian Constituent Assembly as well as officials from the US Embassy, and presented their […]
On 3 April 2013, Professor Asli Bâli presented her draft paper, A Kemalist Secular Age? Negotiating the Islam-Modernity Binary in Turkey, at the Constitutional Transitions Colloquium. Bâli is Assistant Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. A video recording of her presentation is available here. Bâli’s article engages with the concept of secularity […]
On 16 April 2013, Constitutional Transitions had the privilege of hosting Albie Sachs for a lecture on his experience vetting judges in Kenya as part of that country’s transition away from the post-election crisis of 2007-8. Sachs, who served until recently as a Justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, undertook these responsibilities as […]