Contesting Constitutionalism: The Counter-Mobilizations
Ce workshop se tiendra les 29 et 30 octobre 2026 à Oxford. / This workshop will take place in Oxford on October 29 and 30, 2026.
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Convenors
- Gaëtan Cliquennois, CNRS Research Director, University of Rennes (IODE)
- Cristina Parau, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
Theme of the Workshop
The Workshop foregrounds as its most original contribution the proposition that constitutionalism itself is the site of the strategic contest. Americans have long treated the legitimacy of constitutional power as a bone of contention, even while it is fons et origo from the founding of the Republic. Yet, much of the scholarship in the field does not reflexively view constitutionalism as an arena of strategic action in which collective and individual actors compete over visions of constitutional order across multiple jurisdictions.
This Workshop illuminates this phenomenon by examining distinct but interlocking arenas of contestation. The contributors follow a common theme of contestation over constitutional developments from the subsidiary in Europe to the globalized beyond Europe to the most, beginning with the UK, then broadening to national and supranational Europe, the West, and then beyond.
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