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6000-E21;Making and Breaking Constitutions
The course Making and Breaking Constitutions draws on contemporary constitutional developments, cases and controversies that have in recent years put domestic constitutions around the world to a test. We will cover contentious topics, such as abusive constitutionalism and decisions of various constitutional courts on unamendability. Although you might be familiar with the idea of breaking constitutional law in the traditional sense, which describes an action contrary to the constitutional rules. This course is not about ordinary political actors during the course of normal politics. The course focuses on how amending actors and constitutional drafters make, unmake, change, and break constitutions. The course deals comparatively with constitutional texts, their design, and shortcomings. You will learn about foundational concepts, institutions, and ideas that underpin the architecture of a modern constitutional state. We will analyze these concepts to examine interesting real-world but also hypothetical scenarios, such as a constitutional amendment abolishing regular holding of the election, packing courts, and disabling essential checks and balances. Although the course is primarily advertised for MA students, it is also open to interested BA students, provided that they already had a general course on constitutional law. The course takes on advanced theories but is designed so that even students with little previous knowledge should keep up.
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2600 Institut for Psykologis pensumarkiv
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