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
29 July 2024
“Resilience lite”: Strengthening the constitutional protection of the German Federal Constitutional Court

Voices From The Field
12 July 2024
Navigating Uncertainty: Reforming Palestinian Institutions Through Constitutional Reform Amid War

Voices From The Field
11 July 2024
Constitutional Reform Report Sets Out the Way Forward for Jamaica – or Does It?

Voices From The Field
5 July 2024
Constitutionalising Animal Welfare in Switzerland – Two Initiatives, Two Dynamics, Two Outcomes?

Voices From The Field
7 June 2024
Developing a Home-Grown Independence Constitution in Bougainville

Voices From The Field
31 May 2024
2024 Referendum in Ecuador: Between Fear and Legitimacy

Voices From The Field
29 May 2024
The Vanuatu Referendum 2024: Resolving Instability?

Voices From The Field
29 April 2024
Unconstitutional Moments: The 2024 Attempts to Change the Philippine Constitution

Voices From The Field
26 April 2024
Reviving Constitutional Reform in Saint Lucia: The Role of the Parliamentary Constitutional Review Committee

Voices From The Field
15 April 2024
A Constitutional Coup or Institutional Revolution in Togo?

Voices From The Field
29 March 2024
Burkina Faso’s Constitutional Reforms: Disputed Legitimacy Versus Decided Legality

Voices From The Field
26 March 2024
Back to Bicameralism: The Illiberal Goals of Peru's Constitutional Reforms

Voices From The Field
22 March 2024
France’s citizenship reform in Mayotte: a dangerous constitutional reform for purely symbolic impact?

Voices From The Field
1 March 2024
Looking to the Future Through the Lens of the Past: Key Outcomes from the Virgin Islands’ Constitutional Review

Voices From The Field
29 February 2024
Mexico 2024: The Battle for the Constitution

Voices From The Field
26 February 2024
Abolition of the Special Prosecutor's Office in Slovakia: Violation of the Rule of Law in the Name of Protecting Human Rights?

Voices From The Field
31 January 2024
In the World of Constitution-Building in 2023

Voices From The Field
30 January 2024
Mapping Wales’s Constitutional Future: Insights from the Final Report of the Independent Commission

Voices From The Field
22 December 2023
Two Drafts, Three Referendums, and Four Lessons for Constitution-making from Chile

Voices From The Field
22 December 2023
The Chilean Constitutional Process: a Closed Chapter