Thematic Issue Editorial Comment: Constitutional Struggles in Asia

This thematic issue of the Federal Law Review engages with constitutional dimensions of commentaries on the authoritarian turn in many Asian states. Such commentaries observe that despite decades of work to promote democratic systems in Asia, multiple regimes have worked through the institutions and processes of those systems to advance increasingly illiberal conditions.1 The present issue draws attention to constitutional aspects of the authoritarian turn, highlighting the role of constitutional contestation within the systemic shifts occurring in Asia.