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Scholarly but fun conversations about constitutions brought to you by the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School.
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Average audio length:
37 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
18 episodes
since March 21, 2021
episodic
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In this episode, Centre Co-Director Professor Adrienne Stone sits down with Professor Katie Young, Professor and the Robert A. Trevisani Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School.
Katie researches and writes widely across international human rights law, comparative constitutional law,…
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In this episode, Centre Co-Director Will Partlett speaks with Pavel Chikov about his experiences of protecting human rights in Russia and what lessons this has for rights advocacy more broadly around the world.
Pavel Chikov is one of Europe’s leading human rights lawyers. In 2023, he was awarded…
In this episode, Centre Co-Director Will Partlett speaks with Professor Abeyratne about some of the lessons of his recently published book, Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment (Oxford University Press 2025).
Rehan Abeyratne is Professor and Director of Higher Degree Res…
In this episode, Centre Co-Director Will Partlett talks with Professor Dinesha Samararatne about the role constitutions can play in rebuilding democracy. In particular, she talks about her own experience in rebuilding Sri Lankan constitutional democracy both as an academic and member of the Consti…
In this episode, Adrienne Stone sits down with her Constitutional Café co-host and Director the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, William Partlett to discuss his new book Why the Russian Constitutional Matters: The Constitutional Dark Arts (2024).
The book argues that the roots Puti…
In this episode, Constitutional Café co- host Adrienne Stone talks with Professor Edward Foley, a recent distinguished visitor at Melbourne Law about democracy, polarisation and electoral systems.
Professor Foley is interested in how voting systems might help depolarize the intense partisan compet…
Chile recently saw the defeat at a national referendum of a proposed new democratic constitution. What should we make of this result, and what does it mean for the future of democratic constitutional reform in Chile and globally? Did Chilean constitution-makers try to achieve too much, too fast? Wa…
Constitutional Café returns for a second season with an interview on a bold new book. Zaid Al Ali, Senior Programme Officer for International IDEA, joins Adrienne Stone to discuss his book, (2021) that examines the 2011 uprisings that swept across the Arab world in 2011. The conversation ranges wid…
The conceptualisation of landmark judgment and constitutional revolution is a topic that is new and to a certain extent quite original. While broadly used by scholars, lawmakers and the judiciary, until recently these two concepts have never received adequate theorisation in comparative constitutio…
This podcast discusses the notion of ‘post-juristocracy’ – whether we're seeing the end of the broad global shift toward more powerful courts worldwide, which has been an ongoing trend for the almost 80 years post-World War II.
These developments include the declining legitimacy of apex courts in …
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