—Claudia Marchese, Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Florence (Italy) Developments in Constitutional Courts The Turkish Constitutional Court’s decision n. 2017/22355 dated 26 December 2019 on the violation of the applicants’ freedom of speech determined by the blocked access to Wikipedia, was published in the Official Gazette on January 15, 2020.
Call for Nominations–2020 ICON-S Book Prize
ICON·S | The International Society for Public Law is pleased to open the Call for Nominations for its third annual Book Prize. In line with the Society’s mission, the prize will be awarded to an outstanding book in the field of public law, understood as a field of knowledge that transcends dichotomies between the national
What’s New in Public Law
—Chiara Graziani, Ph.D. Candidate and Research Fellow in Constitutional Law, University of Genoa (Italy) 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
Finding a Panel at 2020 ICON-S Annual Conference
–The Editors Many of our readers are happily planning to attend the 2020 Annual Conference of the International Society of Public Law, to be held at the University of Wrocław in Poland on July 9-11, 2020. For those attendees who wish to propose a fully-formed panel but are unable readily to identify others who are
What’s New in Public Law
–Susan Achury, Miami University 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. To submit relevant developments for our weekly feature
Invitation to Friends of I-CONnect: 2020 Global Conference on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change
—Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin Friends of I-CONnect are welcome to attend a major international conference on “Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change,” to be held this coming week on January 17-18, 2020, at the University of Texas at Austin. Attendance is free. The
Undoing Authoritarianism: Thailand’s Campaign to Amend the 2017 Constitution
–Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University The 2017 Constitution has only been in effect for two years but the movement to amend, or even replace it, is spawning. The campaign for a constitutional change is spearheaded mainly by the opposition party, supported by several anti-junta groups. At present, the movement is in an infant
What’s New in Public Law
–Mohamed Abdelaal, Assistant Professor, Alexandria University Faculty of Law 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. To submit relevant
Meet the 2020 Team for “What’s New in Public Law”
–The Editors Exactly six years ago on January 5, 2014, we published the very first edition of “What’s New in Public Law.” Its format today is largely unchanged, and its purpose has remained the same: to update our readers on recent developments in public law around the world. Developments include news from constitutional and supreme courts, new scholarship
I-CONnect at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
–The Editors The I-CONnect Editors will all be in Washington, DC, this week for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. Tom Ginsburg will participate in a panel on “Representation, Voting, and Sustainable Constitutional Democracy” Sunday, January 5, from 1:30pm to 3:15pm in the Marriott Ballroom Salon 2. Other panelists include Guy-Uriel
