@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:02001561, author = {ISMATOV, Aziz}, journal = {Nagoya University Asian Law Bulletin}, month = {Mar}, note = {This research sheds light on a constitutional debate on and development of human rights in Uzbekistan throughout four constitutions from 1927 to 1992, as well as prospects and challenges in conceptualizing and promoting human rights during and after socialism. As a departure point, this research investigates relevant human rights provisions in the 1927, 1937, and 1978 constitutions, which functioned during the period when a socialist human rights tradition was established and evolved in the then Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (Uzbek SSR). It follows with the analysis of the debates on the new human rights and citizens’ rights provisions in the 1992 Constitution adopted within the sophisticated transition process from socialism to market economy. This discussion touches upon the theoretical collision between antagonistic theories of rights – the positivist theory originating from a socialist state on the one hand, and the natural law inspired by international human rights law and foreign constitutions. The author argues that the discourse of contemporary constitutional human rights development in the Republic of Uzbekistan still bears evident traces of socialist and positivist conceptions, notwithstanding the government’s tendency to distance from the socialist state concept. Constitutional human rights also experience substantial practical challenges bounded by multiple factors, which additionally include provisional imperfection regarding the direct (immediate) implementation of rights and incompetent constitutional review system.}, pages = {61--86}, title = {The Introduction of Modern Constitutionalism in Central Asian Post-socialist Context : The Case of Constitutional Debate and Development on Human Rights in Uzbekistan in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries}, volume = {6}, year = {2021} }