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creators_name: Hamoudi, Haider Ala
creators_email: hamoudi@pitt.edu
creators_id: HAMOUDI
creators_orcid: 0000-0003-4948-1143
title: Notes in Defense of the Iraq Constitution
ispublished: pub
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full_text_status: public
keywords: Iraq, iraqi, law, iraq, constitution, incremental, constitutionalism, comparative, constitutionalism
abstract: This paper is a defense of sorts of the Iraqi constitution, arguing that the language used in it was wisely designed to allow some level of flexibility, such that highly divided political forces could find incremental solutions to the deep rooted sources of division that have plagued Iraqi society since its inception. That Iraq has found itself in such dreadful political circumstances since constitutional ratification is therefore not a function of the open ended constitutional bargain, but rather of the failure of Iraqi legal and political elites to make use of the space that the constitution provided them to develop such incremental resolutions.
date: 2011
date_type: published
publication: University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law
volume: 32
pagerange: 101 - 124
refereed: FALSE
official_url: http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil/vol32/iss5/3/
related_url_url: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1753232
related_url_desc: SSRN
article_type: researcharticle
citation:   Hamoudi, Haider Ala  (2011) Notes in Defense of the Iraq Constitution.  University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 32.  101 - 124.      
document_url: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/27005/1/Notes%20in%20Defense.pdf
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