With members of the Constitutional Court, ministers of the Transition Council, civil society and others stakeholders, we had a comparative discussion on general principles of constitutional law and basic structure principles that should preside over the amendment or making of a fundamental law in any constitutional democracy.

1. Can a constitution be made in vacuum?

2. Can a post-coup constitution be made tabula rasa?

3. Isn’t the Mali transition sui generis compared to other post-coup transitions in respect of the status pre coup constitution and how it relates with the Transition Charter?