Public Participation as a General Principle in International Environmental Law: Its Current Status and Real Impact

- Jeroen van Bekhoven 

In Public Participation as a General Principle in International Environmental Law: Its Current Status and Real Impact, Jeroen van Bekhoven discusses the status of public participation in international environmental law, which he suggests as a general principle that accepted and embedded in the international legal framework, though eventually the State holds a high degree of control.

The Constitutionalization of Taiwanese Family Law

- Li-Ju Lee  

In The Constitutionalization of Taiwanese Family Law, Li-Ju Lee examines series of rulings by Taiwanese Constitution Court on family laws with respect to their contents, contexts and impacts. Li argues that the constitutionalization of family law opens up future possibilities to redefine the relationships among individuals, family and society.

European Pluralism on the Protection of Fundamental Rights: the European Convention on Human Rights vis-à-vis the EU Legal Order

- Barrett Ji-Zeng Fan   

In European Pluralism on the Protection of Fundamental Rights: the European Convention on Human Rights vis-à-vis the EU Legal Order, Jizeng Fan demonstrates the plurality of EU human rights protection mechanisms, in which the ECHR and EU Charter on Fundamental Rights interact with each other, by the interplay between the Strasbourg Court and the Luxembourg Court.

Taking Global Constitutionalism Seriously: A Framework for Discourse

- Wen Cheng Chen & Shirley Chi Chu

In Taking Global Constitutionalism Seriously: A Framework for Discourse, Wen Cheng Chen and Shirley Chi Chu present an extensive analysis on global constitutionalism, which may acts as a framework to unite constitutional order discourses, a and a mapping mindset for a Global Republic of Constitutionalism. Although no panacea is proposed by Chen and Chu in this article, they suggest interdisciplinary cooperation and dialogically discursive contestation may help capturing the essence of this topic, which is also a task for “We the Global Scholar.”