Egypt’s Constitution: What went Wrong?
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Mohamed Abdelaal
Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law, Alexandria, Egypt. He is also an SJD Candidate at Indiana University Robert H McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, USA
Abstract
Egypt is going through the early phases of the throes of democratization. Right after the Revolution in 2011, which ended thirty years of repression and dictatorship under the regime of ex-president Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians found themselves with the serious challenge of electing a new president and building a new Egypt; in particular by drafting a new constitution capable of building lasting stability, maintaining equality, and offering opportunities for betterment. However, the newly drafted constitution has failed Egyptians’ ambitions regarding the establishment of democratic governance and preserving human rights, freedoms, and Egypt’s moderate secular nature.
About the author
Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Alexandria University Faculty of Law, Alexandria, Egypt. He is also an SJD Candidate at Indiana University Robert H McKinney School of Law, Indianapolis, USA
© 2017 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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- Inhalt
- Table of Contents
- Editorial
- Articles
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- Freedom of Communication in the US and Europe
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- Developments CEE
- Polish Constitutional Tribunal: The rules for disclosing case records at the pre-trial stage of criminal proceedings
- Hungarian Constitutional Court: The Ratification of the Fiscal Compact
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- Werner Heun, The Constitution of Germany: A contextual analysis, Hart Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1841138688, 241 pp.
- Ioannis Lianos/Okeoghene Odudu (eds), Regulating Trade in Services in the EU and the WTO. Trust, Distrust and Economic Integration, Cambridge University Press 2012, ISBN 9781107008649, 489 pp.
