Conference PaperAuthors: Nicholson, Pip; Do, Hai Ha (2019)
This paper sits at the intersection of two sites of constitutional scholarship. First, it draws on Ginsberg and Simpser’s significant work on authoritarian constitutions which reflects on:i. What do authoritarian constitutions do?ii. How do they work?iii. Why do they exist?1 - At least part of the answer to these three questions offered by Ginsberg and Simpser lies in their characterisation of the signalling power of constitutions, and we turn to that shortly.2- Secondly, during a discussion at a 2016 National University of Singapore conference, a group of scholars argued, at least in part, that the Vietnamese constitution of 2013 was not specific in certain critical r... 
