Three Recent Decisions of the Yemeni Supreme Court

Despite a rich history, beginning with the Ottoman constitutional movement in the latter part of the nineteenth century and that of Qajar Iran at the beginning of the twentieth, Middle Eastern constitutions have a propensity to turn into dead letters. Unless and until constitu- tional watchdogs begin to protect the rights of citizens and subjects in a manner compatible with the generous display of constitutional liberties and entitlements in the supreme texts, the rule of constitutional law will be constrained by the needs of contemporary decision-makers