[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a four-part symposium on the upcoming Italian constitutional referendum on the reduction of members of the Parliament. This symposium is organized by Antonia Baraggia, who has written today’s Introduction to the symposium.] Antonia Baraggia, Assistant Professor of Comparative Law, University of Milan. On 20 and 21 September, Italy will
Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform
[Editor’s Note: ICONnect is publishing a series of book reviews that recently ran in ICON (Volume 18, Issue 2: July 2020) on “Law and Gender in the Literature.”] Libby Adler. Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform. Duke University Press, 2018 (paperback). Pp. 288. $26.95. ISBN: 9780822371496. Estefanía Vela Barba International
Bureaucracy and Vulnerability in the (Digital) Administrative State
—Sofia Ranchordas, University of Groningen [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. For more information about our four columnists for 2020, please click here.] President Ronald Reagan famously said, “The nine scariest words in English are: “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help.” This statement, intended as a joke, translates
What’s New in Public Law
Vini Singh, Assistant Professor & Doctoral Research Scholar, National Law University Jodhpur, India. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include a selection of links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books and articles, and blog posts from around the public law
ICON Book Review: Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl
[Editor’s Note: Over the next several weeks, the ICONnect blog is publishing a series of book reviews that recently ran in ICON (Volume 18, Issue 2: July 2020) on “Law and Gender in the Literature.”] Ratna Kapur. Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018 (hardback). Pp. 328. £90.00. ISBN:
ICON Book Review: Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis
[Editor’s Note: ICONnect is publishing a series of book reviews that recently ran in ICON (Volume 18, Issue 2: July 2020) on “Law and Gender in the Literature.”] Ruth Rubio-Marín and Will Kymlicka eds. Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism: Towards a New Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2018 (hardback). Pp. 304. £65.00. ISBN: 9780198829621. Reviewed by
