—Emmett Macfarlane, University of Waterloo [Editor’s Note: This is a rejoinder by Emmett Macfarlane to two replies to his recent ICON article, Judicial Amendment of the Constitution.] I am grateful that my article, Judicial Amendment of the Constitution, has received two thoughtful and productive responses by such esteemed scholars. Both responses seek to interrogate and

ICON Volume 19, Issue 5: Editorial
Editorial: Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux); 10 good reads; I•CON Thematic Reading Lists; Behind the scenes—Our Managing Editor; In this Issue Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux) [J.H.H. Weiler’s Editorial was previously published on the ICONnect blog at the following link.] 10 good reads [J.H.H. Weiler’s list of

ICON Volume 19, Issue 5: Table of Contents
Volume 19 Issue 5 Table of Contents Editorial: Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux); 10 good reads; I•CON Thematic Reading Lists; Behind the scenes—Our Managing Editor; In this Issue Honor Roll of Reviewers 2021 Articles Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg, The bound executive: Emergency powers during the pandemic Ming-Sung Kuo, Whither judicial

Introducing the 2022 ICONnect Columnists
—David Landau, Florida State University College of Law The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2022, whose work has already started appearing on the blog: Mariana Velasco-Rivera, Maartje De Visser, Shamshad Pasarlay, and Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco. We are certain that they will provide a diverse and

10 Good Reads
—J. H. H. Weiler, New York University School of Law; Co-Editor-in-Chief, I·CON It has not been an easy task to compose this year’s list—not because of a dearth of good reads, but quite the opposite—embarras de richesses. And two of the books actually go back to 2020 but given that I read them late in the

Cost-Benefit Reasoning Versus Proportionality: A Rejoinder
Xin Dai* and Yun-chien Chang** [Editor’s Note: this is a rejoinder, from the latest issue of ICON, by Xin Dai and Yun-chien Chang to two replies to their article, The Limited Usefulness of the Proportionality Principle.] We appreciate the two insightful replies authored by Professor Anne Peters and Professors Cristóbal Caviedes and Francisco J. Urbina.

The Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance – A Rejoinder
—David McGrogan* [Editor’s Note: this is a rejoinder, from the latest issue of ICON, by David McGrogan to a reply to his article, The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance.] The latest issue of ICON contains a Reply by Maxime St-Hilaire to my 2018 article,

ICON Volume 19, Issue 3: Letters to the Editor
[Editor’s Note: We are reprinting here the two letters to the editor in ICON’s latest issue, Volume 19, Issue 3.] Letters to the Editors The population and the individual Dear Editors, I was very pleased to read Maxime St.-Hilaire’s Reply to my 2018 article, “The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the

ICON Volume 19, Issue 3: Editorial
Editorial: I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español; Brexit, the Irish Protocol and the “Versailles Effect”; Cancelling Carl Schmitt?; Changes in the masthead; In this issue I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español I•CON has no “nationality.” It is unlike, say, the Ruritanian Journal of Public Law. It attempts to cater for an international readership and, although we regularly

Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux)
—J.H.H. Weiler, co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law [Editors’ Note: This piece will be published in the next edition of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) as part of the Editorial.] Will we ever see closure to this saga at the center of which one finds the somewhat controversial decision of the International Court