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The Journal of Constitutional Change (JCC) is an international, double-anonymous peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal devoted to a single question in its many forms: how do constitutions change, and who decides? Constitutional change is studied everywhere and housed nowhere — scholarship on amendment procedures, unamendability, constitution-making, informal change, constitutional erosion and constitutional resilience lies scattered across generalist public-law journals and occasional symposia, accumulating slowly because its authors rarely share a venue. JCC exists to give that field a permanent home, one in which Indonesia's debate over a fifth amendment, Chile's failed constitutional replacement, India's basic-structure doctrine and Hungary's constitutional capture can be read as contributions to a single cumulative literature rather than as unrelated national reports. The Journal publishes Articles, Comparative Notes, Amendment Watch reports, Review Essays, Replies and guest-edited Symposia; every item published under these headings is peer reviewed.

JCC is published from Gorontalo, Indonesia, and that is not incidental. The prevailing theory of constitutional change was built largely from European and North American materials, while many of the most consequential constitutional transformations of the past three decades have taken place elsewhere. The Journal therefore treats Asia and the Global South not as cases awaiting explanation by existing theory but as places from which theory is generated, and it welcomes work on any jurisdiction on exactly the same terms. Three requirements shape everything it publishes: an argument must be legible and useful to a reader working on another jurisdiction; constitutional provisions, judgments and drafting records must be cited in their original language with the translator identified; and authors must disclose any advisory, drafting, litigation, adjudicative or political role in the constitutional change they analyse. JCC is independent of any court, legislature, political party or government, publishes scholarship critical of constitutional actors including those of the country in which it is published, and accepts no instruction on an editorial decision from any institution, funder or sponsor.

Publishing information

Publisher

Gorontalo Legal Research and Consulting (GLRC) in partnership with the Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia

Frequency

Two issues per year (June and December). Articles are published online as soon as copy-editing and proofs are complete, and are then assigned to the current issue.

Language

English

e-ISSN

0000-0000

DOI prefix

-

Access model

Diamond open access — no article processing charges, no submission fees, no reader charges

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); authors retain copyright

Review model

Double-anonymous peer review, minimum two external reviewers

Editorial office

Jalan Taman Hiburan I, Wongkaditi Permai II Housing Complex,
Wongkaditi Barat Sub-district, Kota Utara District,
Gorontalo City, Gorontalo Province, Indonesia 96122. jcc@profesionallegal.com