Theunis Roux

There have been two significant developments in comparative constitutional studies over the last decade. First, the rise of authoritarian populism in Europe and the Americas has produced an outpouring of literature on the causes of this phenomenon and what can be done to protect constitutional democracies against it. Second, after a long and mysterious delay, the Global South critique has finally arrived in the field – hauling it kicking and screaming into, not quite the twenty-first century, rather something more like the 1980s in the humanities after Edward Said’s intervention – with a lot of ground still to make up.

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 …