William Partlett

Russia’s non-transformative constitutional founding

W Partlett, M Krasnov

Journal article  |  2019  |  European Constitutional Law Review

The founding of Russia’s 1993 Constitution undermined its transformative potential – The use of pre-existing Soviet legality durin..

Criminal Law and Cooperative Federalism

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2019  |  American Criminal Law Review

Cooperative federalism is now commonplace in the prosecution of street-level drug and gun crime in the United States. This Article..

The Foundations of Democratic Dualism: Why Constitutional Politics and Ordinary Politics are Different

William Partlett, Zim Nwokora

Journal article  |  2019  |  Constellations

Formal constitution-making is now an increasingly common phenomenon. But how should we understand the politics of constitutional l..

David Cameron's Critical Mistake: Brexit as Constitutional Politics

William Partlett, Zim Nwokora

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2019

In the ongoing drama of Brexit politics, it can be hard to know where to start with an evaluation. In this post, we want to assess..

Postsovetskoe superpresidentstvo [Post-Soviet Super-Presidentialism]

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2018  |  Sravnitel'noe konstitucionnoe obozrenie

This article will examine an undertheorized, fourth type of formal constitutional design: Super-presidentialism. Super-presidentia..

The Historical Roots of Socialist Law

William Partlett

Book Chapter  |  2018

This chapter explores the importance of history to socialist law. It describes how the ultimately triumphant Leninist version of s..

Does It Matter That Strikes Against Syria Violate International Law?

William Partlett

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2018

The air strikes in Syria by the US, UK and France after suspected chemical weapon attacks on civilians violate the UN Charter and ..

Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia

Hualing Fu, John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson, William Partlett

Book  |  2018

A fresh perspective on socialist law as practiced in China and Vietnam, two major socialist states.

Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia

Hualing Fu, John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson, William Partlett

Book Chapter  |  2018

Since China's reform and opening up started in 1978 and Vietnam's Doi moi reforms were initiated in 1986, these two East Asian eco..

The American Tradition of Constituent Power

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2017  |  International Journal of Constitutional Law

How do “the people” exercise their revolutionary right to replace the existing constitutional order? The conventional answer is th..

What's Wrong with Venezuela's Constituent Assembly?

W Partlett

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2017

The highly controversial new body may have been established under the guise of democracy, but it is actually a superficial cover f..

Why is Russia Still Supporting Syria?

William Partlett

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2017

As G7 ministers meet to discuss Russia’s role in Syria, its historical emphasis on statehood offers an insight into why Putin stil..

Reforming Centralism and Supervision in Armenia and Ukraine

William Partlett

Book Chapter  |  2016

Is Socialist Law Really Dead?

W PARTLETT, E Ip

Journal article  |  2016  |  New York University Journal of International Law and Politics

The Elite Threat to Constitutional Transitions

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2016  |  Virginia Journal of International Law

Democratic constitutional transition conjures up images of a better farm of politics involving enhanced popular participation and ..

Restoration Constitution-Making

W PARTLETT

Journal article  |  2015  |  Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law

Courts and Constitution-Making

W PARTLETT

Journal article  |  2015  |  Wake Forest Law Review

The Legality of Liberal Revolution

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2013  |  Review of Central and East European Law

Since the fall of communism, liberals have sought to reclaim the mantle of revolution. This new age of liberal revolution, they ar..

Putin's Artful Jurisprudence

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2013  |  National Interest

Separation of powers without checks and balances: The failure of semi-presidentialism and the making of the Russian constitutional system, 1991-1993

W Partlett

Book Chapter  |  2012  |  Law in Eastern Europe

The Dangers of Popular Constitution-Making

W PARTLETT

Journal article  |  2012  |  Brooklyn Journal of International Law

Building Soviet Citizens with American Tools: Russian Revolutions and S. T. Shatskii's Rural Schools, 1905-1932

W Partlett

Book  |  2011

Enforcing oil and gas contracts without courts: Reputational constraints on resource nationalism in Russia and Azerbaijan

W Partlett

Journal article  |  2010  |  Demokratizatsiya

Re-classifying Russian Law: Mechanisms, Outcomes, and Solutions for an Overly Politicized Field

W PARTLETT

Journal article  |  2008  |  Columbia Journal of East European Law

Book Review: Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2007  |  Stanford Journal of International Law

Bourgeois Ideas in Communist Construction: The Development of Stanislav Shatskii's Teacher Training Methods

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2006  |  History of Education

This article traces the role of the non-communist, late Tsarist, ‘new education’ movement in shaping early Soviet views of teacher..

Book Review: Shkola v Rossiiskom Obshchestve 1917-1927: Stanovlenie 'Novogo Cheloveka'

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2005  |  Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

The Cultural Revolution in the Village School: S. T. Shatskii's Kaluga School Complex, 1919-1932

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2005  |  Journal of the Oxford University History Society

Upon seizing power in 1917, the Bolsheviks faced a rural population that was indifferent, if not hostile, to their policies.2 To c..

Breaching cultural worlds with the village school: Educational visions, local initiative, and rural experience at S. T. Shatskii's Kaluga School System, 1919-1932

William Partlett

Journal article  |  2004  |  Slavonic and East European Review

This article examines the village school as an institution of cultural change in early Soviet Russia. Focusing on a rural progress..