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  • Global Research Seminar travels to Japan to explore judicial review
    March 12
    Members of the GRS on comparative constitutional law traveled to Tokyo and Kyoto to meet with judges, legislators, and scholars to gain a Japanese perspective on the question of judicial review in Japan.
  • High-Level Roundtable on Women and Legislative Reform Spurs Dialogue on Translating Gender Equality Laws into Action
    April 18
    On March 10, the eve of the Commission on the Status of Women’s 61st session in New York, Penn Law, UN Women, UNESCO, The UN Sustainable Development Goals Fund, and the International Law Development Organization (IDLO) convened leading women jurists, legislators, policymakers and advocates engaged in legislative and policy drafting for a High-Level Roundtable on Women and Legislative Reform hosted by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. Against the backdrop of the CSW’s annual two-week session when representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations and UN entities gather to shape global standards on gender equality, thirty women and men representing over twenty countries analyzed the legal implementation gap through the prism of representative case studies on gender equality, violence against women and personal laws.
  • Why the Indian Supreme Court Can Get American Popular Constitutionalists Rethinking
    February 15
    American legal scholars have ushered in a new school of thought that has been overly skeptical of judicial supremacy. While scholars such as Larry Kramer base their arguments for their distrust of judicial supremacy on the weak premise of it being counter to historical traditions, most scholars put forward the more philosophical argument that judicial supremacy contrives a society where people lose the vital will and motivation for civic participation. These scholars are known as Popular Constitutionalists and they unanimously advocate for putting an end to judicial supremacy and handing the Constitution over to the people.
  • A “Hidden Collection” at Biddle!
    February 11
    Of interest to scholars of legal history or comparative law …