Constitutional Cafe comes to you from the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at the Melbourne Law School. It is a place for scholarly but informal and fun conversations about constitutions and constitutional law with a global focus.

Zaid Al Ali, Senior Programme Officer for International IDEA, joins Adrienne Stone to discuss his bold, new book, Arab Constitutionalism: the Coming Revolution (2021) that examines the 2011 uprisings that swept across the Arab world in 2011.

Associate Professor William Partlett speaks with Marina Agaltsova about her work at Memorial Human Rights Centre in Moscow and why that organisation is now facing liquidation.

This episode of the podcast focuses on a topic that is new and to a certain extent quite original: the conceptualisation of landmark judgment and constitutional revolution. While broadly used by scholars, lawmakers and the judiciary, until recently these two concepts have never received adequate theorisation in comparative constitutional law.

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.