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Dr Suteu’s Eternity Clauses in Democratic Constitutionalism published by Oxford University Press

3 June 2021

Dr Silvia Suteu will speak at several upcoming events to support the launch of her monograph, which analyses unamendability in democratic constitutionalism.

Front cover of Eternity Clauses in Democratic Constitutionalism

Dr Silvia Suteu (Lecturer in Public Law at UCL Laws) has just published her monograph with Oxford University Press, titled Eternity Clauses in Democratic Constitutionalism.

The book explores the role of eternity clauses in constitution-making, constitutional adjudication, and constitutional reform and provides a unique analysis of unamendability in democratic constitutionalism. Engaging critically and contextually with both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional rigidity of this type, the monograph advances our understanding of a constitutional mechanism of ever-growing interest for practitioners and scholars alike.

Dr Suteu will speak at several launch-related events in the coming weeks, all open to the public. At UCL, she will give a Lunch Hour seminar on Tuesday 8 June, titled ‘Democratic Constitutionalism under Attack: The Peril and Promise of We The People’ (registration here). In addition, she will speak at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at Oxford University on 16 June (registration here), at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law at the University of Edinburgh on 21 June (registration here), and at the Centre for Comparative and Public Law at the University of Hong Kong (flyer here).

Dr Suteu has been a Lecturer in Public Law at UCL Laws since September 2016. She specialises in comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, with a focus on comparative constitutional change, gender equality, and participatory constitutionalism. At UCL, she convenes the Public Law Group, is an editor of the Current Legal Problems journal, and is the gender editor for Lex-Atlas: COVID-19, a global academic project mapping legal responses to the pandemic.

Dr Suteu sits on the executive committees of the UK Constitutional Law Association and of the Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law, having previously managed the UK Constitutional Law Blog, and was formerly an Associate Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law.