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Posts:

An alternative constitutional approach to asylum migration

Contribution to special issue on “Possibilities for Covenantal Pluralism in the West”

A blessing in disguise? On the Dutch election results

Understanding the potentially ‘defining force of twenty-first-century constitutionalism’

Human rights: Natural, or international law? (Guest Post by Dr. Aaron Rhodes, international human rights advocate and author of The Debasement of Human Rights, Encounter Books, 2018, and Human Rights Without Illusions, Academica Books, 2025). [Open Access]

What’s In a Name? On “Being Conservative”

A forbidden opinion

Canada: A partially postliberal constitutional monarchy (Guest Post by Dr. Paul L. Allen, Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Corpus Christi College, Vancouver and Professor of Theology, St. Mark’s College)

Not so liberal, but a free society nevertheless? A perspective on liberalism in Japan (Guest Post by Prof. Jiro Mizushima, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University, Japan)

Federalism Revisited: Lessons from the Past for Today

False Gods

Consensus versus majoritarian democracy

Amazed

An early warning

Legality and legitimacy in the asylum debate

Law and literature

Chapter on ‘The State of Western Constitutionalism: An Alternative Problem Analysis and Solution Direction’

A visit to the Bruderhof: ‘Why not this’?

Natural law and democracy

Prevent further polarization around the rule of law by (re)politicizing its institutions

Meeting Päivi Räsänen

Among the Protestants

When it’s done

A time that transforms us

An extreme solution

Back to Basics

A mini-lecture on the Dutch election results

Man, society, the state, and the world: how to write a public law textbook

A Dutch post-liberal moment?

How the way forward for European integration leads back to its start

Do liberal democracies protect religious freedom?

A European culture war over the rule of law?

The instability of a ‘cartel democracy’

Postcard from Rome

The old is the new

A new direction

European values

Why liberal constitutionalism can lead to populism (II)

Why liberal constitutionalism can lead to populism (I)

ICLARS

The Change

A horizon of beauty

Benedictine spirituality