Arab Constitutionalism : the coming revolution / Zaid Al-Ali.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Al-Ali, Zaid, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law--Arab countries.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional law (Islamic law).

Law reform.

Arab countries.

Law reform--Arab countries.

Constitutional law (Islamic law)--Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

After the 2011 uprisings started in Tunisia and swept across the Arab region, more than a dozen countries amended their constitutions, the greatest concentration of constitutional reform processes since the end of the Cold War. This book provides a detailed account and analysis of all of these developments. Individual accounts are provided of eight different reform processes (including Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Sudan), with particular focus on the historical context, the political dynamics, the particular process that each country followed and the substantive outcome. Zaid Al-Ali deconstructs the popular demands that were made in 2011 and translates them into a series of specific actions that would have led to freer societies and a better functioning state. A revolution did not take place in 2011, but it is inevitably part of the region's future and Arab Constitutionalism explores what that revolution could look like.

Contents:

Tunisia

Egypt

Yemen

Libya

Jordan, Morocco, Sudan, Algeria

Purpose (or who decides what a constitution is for?)

The Individual (or the search for meaning)

Government (or the weight of history)

Process design (or on avoiding majoritarianism)

External assistance.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jul 2021).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781108570824

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.