ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ruth Houghton

Ruth Houghton is the Director of the Global Legal Studies LLB and a co-ordinator of the Constitutionalism and Governance research group at Newcastle University.
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POSTS BY Ruth Houghton

10 July 2024

Ruth Houghton

Locating Unwritten Constitutional Norms in Global Constitutionalism

If there is a global constitutional order, it is “unwritten”. We cannot point to a written constitution for global law. Rather, theories of global constitutionalism and processes of global constitutionalisation are derived from an amalgamation of sources across international law and domestic constitutional orders. This blog post reflects on these tensions within the debate on global constitutionalisation, and focuses specifically on democracy as an unwritten constitutional norm in global constitutionalism. Continue reading >>