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
30 November 2021
A Balancing Act: Public Participation, Decision-Making, and Freedom of Speech at the Chilean Constitutional Convention
Voices From The Field
29 November 2021
Chad’s Military Transition Bottleneck and Deadlocks in the Constitution-making Process
Voices From The Field
19 November 2021
Restoring Constitutional Equality to Sabah and Sarawak: Do the Proposed Amendments to the Malaysian Federal Constitution Go Far Enough?
Voices From The Field
30 October 2021
The Constitutional Convention’s rules of procedure: a path of transformative institutionalism in Chile
Voices From The Field
30 October 2021
On the fragility of new democracies: Tunisia between constitutional order and disorder
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
25 September 2021
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Chile’s Constitutional Convention Decides its Rules of Procedure
Voices From The Field
21 September 2021
A Highly Risky Proposal to Reform the Salvadoran Constitution
Voices From The Field
31 August 2021
Peru's uncertain process to establish a constituent assembly
Voices From The Field
30 August 2021
Barbados’s Long-drawn-out Promise of a Republic
Voices From The Field
16 August 2021
Basic Law Legislation: The Basic Law that can Make or Break Israeli Constitutionalism
Voices From The Field
29 July 2021
Modernizing Jordan’s Political System: The Unspoken Motivations
Voices From The Field
26 July 2021
Nigeria’s constitutional review: the continuing quest for a legitimate Grundnorm
Voices From The Field
30 June 2021
Quebec’s Bill 96: The Latest Chapter on Quebec and the Constitution
Voices From The Field
29 June 2021
Do you hear the people sing?: Thais demand a democratic constitution to replace the junta
Voices From The Field
22 June 2021
Constitutional Reform in Belarus: Feasible Changes or an Imitative Process?
![A protester in Santiago holds a sign calling for a 'constitutional assembly for more democracy' [photo credit: Sandra Cuffe/Al Jazeera]](/sites/default/files/A%20protester%20in%20Santiago%20holds%20a%20sign%20calling%20for%20a%20%27constitutional%20assembly%20for%20more%20democracy%27%20%5BSandra%20Cuffe%20Al%20Jazeera%5D.jpeg "A protester in Santiago holds a sign calling for a 'constitutional assembly for more democracy' [photo credit: Sandra Cuffe/Al Jazeera]")
Voices From The Field
31 May 2021
Chile Elects its Constitution-Making Body: The Potential and Risks of a Fragmented Convention
Voices From The Field
28 May 2021
The revision of the Gabonese Constitution: Between contestation, modernization and inconsistencies
Voices From The Field
26 May 2021
The Peace Process and Afghanistan’s Uncertain Constitutional Future