Voices from the Field
Through the eyes of local experts and actors, ConstitutionNet’s ‘Voices from the Field’ series offers a monthly look at constitution building processes as they are unfolding on the ground around the world. Contributions take the form of interviews with, and opinion pieces from, constitutional experts, lawyers, practitioners and other engaged citizens in the field for a fresh and original look at issues of importance to local populations during the drafting, adoption and implementation of constitutions.
Voices From The Field
26 May 2023
Defending Democracy: Sweden’s Constitutional Reform Proposals in Response to Democratic Backsliding in Europe
Voices From The Field
27 February 2023
Constitutionalising the Status Quo: Expanding non-discrimination protections to include disability and sexual orientation in the Dutch Constitution
Voices From The Field
31 January 2023
Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss: Potential and Limitations for Deliberative Democracy
Voices From The Field
22 December 2022
In the World of Constitution Building in 2022
Voices From The Field
30 November 2022
The All-Belarusian People’s Assembly: Cementing President Lukashenka’s Consolidation of Power
Voices From The Field
29 November 2022
The Bonn Powers in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Between a rock and a hard place
Voices From The Field
22 September 2022
The war in Ukraine and its repercussions on Europe’s “security and defence constitution”
Voices From The Field
26 May 2022
No celebration for gender-corrective mechanism adding 12 women MPs to Malta’s ineffective parliament
Voices From The Field
22 March 2022
Why Wales is having a national conversation on its constitutional future
Voices From The Field
28 February 2022
Hungary’s 2022 elections: Prospects for political and constitutional change
Voices From The Field
24 February 2022
Belarus’s upcoming referendum: Lukashenka stacks the deck
Voices From The Field
31 January 2022
Armenia’s Constitutional Journey Continues
Voices From The Field
22 December 2021
In the World of Constitution Building in 2021
Voices From The Field
28 October 2021
Luxembourg’s constitutional crescendo: will incremental reforms succeed where overhaul failed?
Voices From The Field
30 September 2021
Right to self-defence with a weapon in the Czech Republic: an unloaded gun?
Voices From The Field
22 June 2021
Constitutional Reform in Belarus: Feasible Changes or an Imitative Process?
Voices From The Field
28 March 2021
When direct democracy trumps human rights: Unveiling the Swiss “Burqa Ban”
Voices From The Field
26 February 2021
"They're not little adults": the struggle for proper and standalone children's rights in the German Basic Law
Voices From The Field
19 February 2021
Malta’s proposed gender top-up system: Good intentions, questionable means?
Voices From The Field
21 December 2020
In the World of Constitution Building in 2020