Month: October 2021
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France | 2020 Developments in Constitutional Law
—Corinne Luquiens, Member of the Constitutional Council; Nefeli Lefkopoulou, PhD Candidate at Sciences Po Law School; Eirini Tsoumani, PhD Candidate at Sciences Po Law School; Guillaume Tusseau, Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School I. Introduction As in many other countries, the pandemic dominated French constitutional politics in 2020.
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The Contingent Role of the Basic Structure Doctrine for Constitutionalism in Africa
—Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] Kenyan courts’ use of the basic structure doctrine to strike down President Uhuru Kenyatta’s the Constitution of Kenya Amendment Bill 2020 as unconstitutional has attracted many reactions both in Kenya and abroad.
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ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents
Volume 19 Issue 3 Table of Contents Letters to the Editors The population and the individual, David McGrogan Unequal impact, Stephen F. Ross Editorial I•CON: Foreword! Karen J. Alter, From colonial to multilateral international law: A global capitalism and law investigation This Foreword integrates international law, international relations, and global history scholarship to understand two global trends that are in tension with each other: (i) the shift from European colonial dominance to a law-based multilateralism, which enabled a more equal and inclusive international law, and (ii) global capitalism which, across time, has been a political and economic force that, left to its own devices, promotes exclusion and inequality.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Bárbara da Rosa Lazarotto, Master Student at the University of Minho – Portugal; Researcher at the International Legal Research Group on Human Rights and Technology of the European Law Students Association – ELSA. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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Global Fellowship Applications for New York University School of Law | Now Available for the 2022-23 Academic Year
New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the following fellowships: Emile Noël Fellowship Program Deadline: January 15, 2022 The principal objective of the Emile Noël Fellowship program is scholarship and the advancement of research on the themes prioritized by the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, which include the following overarching areas: European Integration, general issues of International (principally WTO), and Regional Economic Law and Justice and Comparative Constitutional Law.
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Call for Proposals | ICON•S Committee on New Directions in Scholarship
The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) has established a Committee on “New Directions in Scholarship”. Its main objective is to facilitate the dissemination of works that have advanced the knowledge of Public Law and to launch inclusive initiatives in public law research.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Eman Muhammad Rashwan, Ph.D. Candidate in the European Doctorate in Law & Economics (EDLE), Hamburg University, Germany; Assistant Lecturer of Public Law, Cairo University, Egypt. 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 blogosphere.
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Symposium | Part IV | After the decision of the captured Polish Constitutional Tribunal: jurists trying to have and eat their cake
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a five-part symposium on the recent decision by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on the primacy of EU law. This is the fifth entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Antonia Baraggia and Giada Ragone.
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Symposium | Part III | Let’s take a deep breath: on the EU (and academic) reaction to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a five-part symposium on the recent decision by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on the primacy of EU law. This is the fourth entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Antonia Baraggia and Giada Ragone.
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Symposium | Part II | From Constitutional Pluralism to Constitutional Solipsism
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a five-part symposium on the recent decision by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on the primacy of EU law. This is the third entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Antonia Baraggia and Giada Ragone.