We are thrilled to announce a new partnership between the Comparative Constitutions Project and the International Association of Constitutional Law to jointly publish the journal Constitutional Studies. We have relaunched the journal as an international multilingual, open access journal, publishing work on the theory and practice of constitutional government around the world.

Our first issue under the journal’s relaunch explores the state of the field of constitutional studies in regions and disciplines around the world. We invite you to read the full June 2025 issue or explore individual articles below, examining constitutional developments through varied regional trends globally and diverse disciplinary viewpoints.

The journal will be published biannually and entirely online, with issues each June and December. We invite you to learn more about the benefits of publishing with CS, how to submit your work, and what our editorial process entails. We also invite you to learn more about doing book reviews and special issues with the journal.

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June 2025 Issue

Articles (9)

• Böckenförde: (Unconstitutional) Constitutional Amendments in Africa: Mapping the Field
• Al-Ali: The Arab Region 15 Years after the Uprising: Regression, Conflict, and Residual Hope
• Yeh and Chang: Changing Dynamics of Constitutional Progress and Regression in Asia
• Suteu: Democratic Backsliding and Comparative Constitutional Soul-Searching in Europe
• Gargarella: The ‘Democratic Problem’ in Latin America and the ‘Narrow Suit’ of Constitutionalism
• Hirschl: Comparative Constitutional Inquiry: The North American Angle
• Arcioni and Gover: Can Private International Law Methods Facilitate Indigenous-Settler Legal Pluralism?
• Zahar: Constitutional Reforms and Peace Processes: An Odd Couple?
• Trochev and Juzgenbayev: Diverging Trajectories of Post-Soviet Constitutional Courts

Dispatches (2)

• Malagodi and Payne: Interview with Former UK Supreme Court President Baroness Brenda Hale
• Saunders: Parameters of External Constitutional Assistance

Constitutional Law and Culture (1)

• Putachad: Constitutional Systems of the World: Uncovering the Art of the Cover

Book Reviews (2)

• Lin: Subverting the Power of Asian Gender Constitutionalism: Review of Chang et al.
• Pozsár-Szentmiklósy: Review of Silvia Suteu, Eternity Clauses in Democratic Constitutionalism

Notices (2)

• Perham, Petkar, and Velasco-Rivera: Introducing the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Blog
• Brems and Correa: The World Congress of Constitutional Law 2026