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ICL Journal

Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law

ISSN: 1995-5855

Editors-in-chief: Christoph Bezemek, Harald Eberhard, Claudia Fuchs

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The Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (ICL Journal) is dedicated to the advancement of legal knowledge in the field of International Constitutional Law. Advised by a body of distinguished jurists the Journal publishes high-standard peer-reviewed contributions by scholars and legal professionals from around the globe. 　

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European Constitutional Law
Public International Law
Constitutionalization of International Law
Internationalization of Constitutional Law
Migration of Constitutional Ideas
Legal Theory
Comparative Constitutional Law

By linking these select perspectives the Journal endorses an approach towards a coherent understanding of International Constitutional Law, thus preparing the ground for novel answers to the challenges of a changing global legal framework. The Journal addresses the global scientific community, scholars and researchers in various disciplines working in the field of International Constitutional Law. Moreover, the Journal provides information on recent constitutional developments relevant to practitioners as well as academics, particularly by monitoring the case law of Constitutional Courts in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Research articles, notes & essays, reports, book reviews.

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The Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (ICL Journal) was founded in 2007.

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Volume 17 Issue 2

June 2023

Publicly Available July 12, 2023

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June 26, 2023

B R Ambedkar’s Multiple Consciousness and the Framing of the Indian Constitution

Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox

Page range: 107-134

Abstract

This article will analyze the way in which B R Ambedkar's lived experience and jurisprudential commitments framed the discursive structure of the Indian Constitution and reformulated prevailing conceptions of liberal constitutionalism to reflect the specific and historically contingent context in which it was formed. Whereas prevailing notions of political rights in Western liberalism were conceived as abstract protections of individuals against the state, Ambedkar attempted to reframe the idea of rights as including correlative duties and accounting for material conditions of inequality and systemic discrimination. Heblurred the distinction between the higher-order law and everyday politics, and conceptualized rights as horizontal in addition to vertical in character. Finally, he included a temporal reorientation of the liberal constitutional paradigm by incorporating permissive constitutional structures. This article analyzes his approach to constitutional jurisprudence within the framework of Mari Matsuda’s notion of multiple consciousness.

Publicly Available June 2, 2023

A Paradigm Shift for Hong Kong’s National Security Constitution – A Comparative Study of the Impact of Its National Security Law

Feng Lin, Mengtian Fei

Page range: 135-202

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The Chinese national legislature has enacted a national security law (NSL) for Hong Kong. This paper applies the theory of national security constitution as developed by Professor Koh to examine the impact of the NSL upon four core constitutional principles in Hong Kong’s mini-constitution which underly its national security constitution and to evaluate the nature of the impact. The paper argues that the NSL has, instead of applying and supplementing the existing underlying constitutional principles in the mini-constitution, changed them to various degrees, and the pre-NSL bifurcated national security system for Hong Kong and mainland China has been replaced by an integrated national security system under the NSL. The impact caused by the NSL is so significant as to amount to a permanent paradigm shift to a new post-NSL national security constitution. The paper also argues that the theory of national security constitution has its limitation in its application to subnational Hong Kong because its mini-constitution and the underlying principles therein can be modified by national legislation, such as the NSL, of its sovereign, China. Through a comparative study with the USA, the paper proposes that the theory of national security constitution needs to be modified by adding that different effects may occur to a sub-national national security constitution depending on the source of the framework national security legislation. Hong Kong’s failure in its constitutional duty to enact national security legislation under Article 23 of the Basic Law has led to the enactment of the NSL by China. Such legislation from the sovereign has changed the underlying constitutional principles and is fundamentally different from sub-national framework legislation that only implements and supplements those principles. However, a comparative study with Macau indicates that the theory of national security constitution is still applicable to a sub-national entity such as Macau so long as China as sovereign exercises self-restraint and any framework national security legislation is enacted at the sub-national level.

Volume 17 (2023)

Volume 16 (2022)

Volume 15 (2021)

Volume 14 (2020)

Volume 13 (2019)

Volume 12 (2018)

Volume 11 (2017)

Volume 10 (2016)

Volume 9 (2015)

Volume 8 (2014)

Volume 7 (2013)

Volume 6 (2012)

Volume 5 (2011)

Volume 4 (2010)

Volume 3 (2009)

Volume 2 (2008)

Volume 1 (2007)

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5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.3	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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Editorial

Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief
Christoph Bezemek, University of Graz, Austria
Harald Eberhard, WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
Claudia Fuchs, JKU - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

Corresponding Editors
Tímea Drinóczi, University of Pécs, Faculty of Law, Hungary
Pavel Molek, Member of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court, Czech Republic
Visar Morina, University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Attila Vincze, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Managing Editors
Maximilian Kallinger - Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Anja Krasser - University of Graz, Austria
Sarah Werderitsch - WU - Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Board of Advisors
Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School, USA
Marco de Benito Llopis-Llombart, IE Law School, Segovia Campus, Spain
Brigitte Bierlein, former President of the Austrian Constitutional Court, Austria
Scott Brewer, Harvard Law School, USA
Margit Cohn, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Surya Deva, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Akiko Ejima, Meiji University Law School, Japan
Anna Gamper, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Christoph Grabenwarter, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; President of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Gregor Heißl, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Michael Holoubek, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Member of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Gerhart Holzinger, Former President of the Austrian Constitutional Court, Austria
Claudia Kahr, Member of the Austrian Constitutional Court, Austria
Uwe Kischel, University of Greifswald, Germany
Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer, Member of the European Court of Human Rights, France
Georg Lienbacher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria; Member of the Austrian Constitutional Court
Konrad Lachmayer, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
Martin Loughlin, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Fabrizio Marrella, University 'Ca´ Foscari' of Venice, Italy
Russell A. Miller, Washington and Lee University School of Law, USA
Thomas Müller, University of Innsbruck
Bertil Emrah Oder, Koç University Law School, Istanbul, Turkey
Theo Öhlinger, University of Vienna, Austria
Jaime Olaiz Gonzalez, Universidad Panamericana Law School, Mexico City, Mexico
Anne Peters, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany
Otto Pfersmann, Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Flavia Piovesan, University of São Paolo, Brasil
August Reinisch, University of Vienna, Austria
Pablo Riberi, Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Spain
Cheryl Saunders, Melbourne Law School, Australia
Kirsten Schmalenbach, University of Salzburg, Austria
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law, USA
Eva Schulev-Steindl, University of Graz, Austria
Alexander Somek, University of Vienna, Austria
Manfred Stelzer, University of Vienna, Austria
Bea Verschraegen, University of Vienna, Austria
Bernd Wieser, University of Graz, Austria
Guobin Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, School of Law, Hong Kong

(Deutsch)

Online ISSN: 1995-5855
Print ISSN: 2306-3734
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: January 1, 2017
Publication Frequency: 4 Issues per Year
Audience: The Journal addresses the global scientific community, scholars and researchers in various disciplines working in the field of International Constitutional Law.