Constitutional Options for Bahrain

The efforts of Professor Chilbi Mallat to offer constitutional options to Middle Eastern regimes that teetered on the verge of regime change were recently published.  Professor Mallat gathered students from across the Tufts and Harvard communities to work on documents that explored the potential movements toward democracy that were available to Egypt and Bahrain by amendment to their respective constitutions.  I participated in the Bahrain effort, the results of which were recently published in the Virginia Journal of International Law.  The organization Right to Nonviolence published the background papers that are associated with the final paper (I helped prepare the backgrounder on the constitutional changes to the Executive Branch.)  Although the entry of Saudi forces into Bahrain several months ago aborted that country's constitutional moment, the exercise offered an incredible window into the practice of advising on constitutional reform.

Journal's entry description:  http://www.vjil.org/articles/constitutional-options-for-bahrain
Publication: http://www.vjil.org/assets/pdfs/vjilonline2/Gelbort_Mallat.pdf

Backgrounders:  http://www.righttononviolence.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=45