Philipp Dann (Humboldt University – Chair for Public and Comparative Law) has posted Liberalism as Open Source: Constitutionalism and Post-Colonialism in the Global South on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
Contestations of liberal ideas are very popular these days. But what does the debate look like, when analyzed through the lens of postcolonial theories or from the perspective of the South? Is there a basic incompatibility of liberal constitutionalism and post-colonialism, as some claim? Or is it rather the other way around: Can postcolonial or Southern perspectives highlight problems and potentials of liberal constitutionalism in especially productive ways?