Constitutional Reform in the Arab Spring: A New Beginning or an Unhappy Ending?
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ftyaleunivlawsch:oai:openyls.law.yale.edu:20.500.13052/17669 2023-05-15T13:49:27+02:00 Constitutional Reform in the Arab Spring: A New Beginning or an Unhappy Ending? Brown, Nathan 2021-11-25T13:36:36.000 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/17669 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylsop_papers/10 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ylsop_papers&unstamped=1 unknown ylsop_papers/10 5659543 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13052/17669 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylsop_papers/10 https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=ylsop_papers&unstamped=1 Occasional Papers 2021 ftyaleunivlawsch https://doi.org/20.500.13052/17669 2022-01-16T07:15:18Z Some years ago, when I was considering various paths my scholarly agenda could take, I asked a colleague of mine who worked on international law regarding Antarctica how he had selected his specialization. He responded that the obscurity of the subject was its own reward: even if he produced bad scholarship, he would still be one of the top people in his field. It was in this spirit that I decided to focus on constitutionalism in the Arab world. What little attention the topic had attracted was negative. For centuries, Middle Eastern political systems have been held up by Western students of constitutionalism to be negative models: helping us understand who we are by showing us what we are not. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctica Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository (eYLS) |
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Some years ago, when I was considering various paths my scholarly agenda could take, I asked a colleague of mine who worked on international law regarding Antarctica how he had selected his specialization. He responded that the obscurity of the subject was its own reward: even if he produced bad scholarship, he would still be one of the top people in his field. It was in this spirit that I decided to focus on constitutionalism in the Arab world. What little attention the topic had attracted was negative. For centuries, Middle Eastern political systems have been held up by Western students of constitutionalism to be negative models: helping us understand who we are by showing us what we are not. |
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