Jindal Global Law School
Delhi, India
March 21-22, 2019

The Organizing Committee invites submissions for a two-day Symposium on the Indian Constitution’s Basic Structure Doctrine. This Symposium on The Origins, Migration and Influence of the Basic Structure Doctrine will be held on the campus of Jindal Global Law School on Thursday and Friday, March 21-22, 2019. The program is convened by Richard Albert (Texas), Alexander Fischer (Jindal), and Sarbani Sen (Jindal).

Subject-Matter of Symposium

The creation of the Basic Structure Doctrine is one of the most important public law developments of the twentieth century. First articulated in court and judicially enforced in India, the Doctrine has since migrated across the globe and continues today to gain new adherents. In spite of its popularity, the Doctrine has attracted its fair share of critics. In this Symposium, we will discuss the Doctrine, including both its successes and failures, and we welcome submissions proposing to discuss the origins, migration and influence of the Doctrine in any part of the world.

Eligibility

Submissions are invited from scholars of all ranks, including doctoral students.

Publication

The convenors intend to publish a selection of papers in an edited book and a set of invited papers in the Indian Law Review. An invitation to participate in this Symposium will be issued to a participant on the following conditions: (1) the participant agrees to submit an original, unpublished paper of 8,000 words, all notes included, consistent with submission guidelines issued by the symposium convenors; (2) the participant agrees to submit a pre-Symposium draft by February 1, 2019; and (3) the participant agrees to submit a full post-Symposium final draft by August 1, 2019. All papers should conform to OSCOLA citation conventions.

Submission Instructions

Interested scholars should email a CV and abstract no longer than 750 words by July 15, 2018 to tdo@law.utexas.edu on the understanding that the abstract will form the basis of the pre-symposium draft to be submitted by February 1, 2019. Scholars should identify their submission with the following subject line: “Symposium on Basic Structure Doctrine—Abstract Submission.” All materials should be submitted in PDF.

Notification

Successful applicants will be notified no later than August 15, 2019.

Costs

There is no cost to participate in this Symposium. Jindal Global Law School will generously cover the cost of food onsite at the conference venue, local accommodation as well as return travel between the Delhi International Airport and Jindal Global Law School. Successful applicants are responsible for securing their own funding for all other expenses.

Questions

Please direct inquiries in connection with this Symposium to:

Richard Albert
The University of Texas at Austin
richard.albert@law.utexas.edu

Alexander Fischer
Jindal Global Law School
acfischer@jgu.edu.in

Sarbani Sen
Jindal Global Law School
ssen@jgu.edu.in

About the Convenors

Richard Albert is Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He writes about constitutional change, including amendment, replacement, interpretation and revolution. His publications have been translated into Chinese, Hungarian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. He is co-editor of the new Oxford Series in Comparative Constitutionalism, co-editor of the Routledge Series on Comparative Constitutional Change, book reviews editor for the American Journal of Comparative Law, co-editor of I-CONnect, chair-elect of the AALS Section on Comparative Law, and a former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada. Richard Albert holds degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Yale, where he served as Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Alexander Fischer specializes in comparative constitutional law with particular reference to India. Before joining Jindal Global Law School he was a lecturer at SOAS, School of Law (University of London) and at the South Asia Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Heidelberg. Alex was visiting scholar at the Global Legal Studies Center (GLS), University of Wisconsin Law School (2012) and visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (2004-2005, with research grants from the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and the German Academic Exchange Service). Alex holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LLM & BA Anthropology and Law) and from the University of Heidelberg (PhD & MA Political Science). His most recent publication is a co-edited book: “State and Society in South Asia: Themes of Assertion and Recognition” (2014, Samskriti, New Delhi).  He was Assistant Series Editor (2007-2011) for Constitutional Systems of the World, Hart Publishing, and Deputy Editor (from 2002 to 2006) of the Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics.

Sarbani Sen is Associate Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Law Studies at Jindal Global Law School, NCR, India. Her teaching and research interests include constitutional foundings and subsequent transformations; separation of powers and the scope of inter institutional dialogue between the court and the legislature on constitutional issues; emergence of social and economic rights and the “transformative” potential of the constitution.She is the author of “Popular sovereignty and democratic transformation: the constitution of India” [OUP 2007] and articles on refugee law and on using social and economic rights as instruments of development. She was recently selected to the Scholarship Advisory Group of the Younger Comparativists’ Committee of the ASCL [2017- 2018]. Her proposal was the recipient of a Ford Foundation grant for co-organizing a conference on “South Asian Constitutionalism” to be held at Colombo in July 2018 between Jindal Global Law School and the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also currently working as part of an international research group named “Towards understanding southern welfare — ideational and historical foundations of social policies in Brazil; China; India and South Africa” organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Bielefeld. She has degrees from the University of Delhi; London School of Economics and Yale.

—Maja Sahadžić, Ph.D. Researcher (University of Antwerp)

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 on “What’s New in Public Law,” please email contact.iconnect@gmail.com.

Developments in Constitutional Courts

1. The Constitutional Court in Latvia will examine the constitutionality of the education reform aimed at switching to Latvian as the sole language of instruction at school.
2. The Constitutional Court in Gabon dissolved the national parliament and called on the government to step down for failing to organize twice-delayed elections.
3. The Supreme Court in Pakistan reserved its decision in the contempt case against the federal privatization minister after both sides completed their arguments.
4. The Constitutional Court in Uganda ordered that the corruption trial of two businessmen that was stayed five years ago should resume before the Anti-corruption court.
5. The Supreme Court in Finland denied the prosecution’s request to appeal in sexual abuse of 10-year-old.
6. The Constitutional Court in Slovenia rejected complaints by the Slovenian central bank and the European Central Bank with regards to the seizure of Banka Slovenije data in 2016.
7. The Constitutional Court in Romania ruled that the changes to the referendum law are constitutional.
8. The Supreme Court of Israel backed increasing tax burden on the multinational research and development units in Israel.
9. The Supreme Court in California ruled in favor of the gig workers.
10. The Constitutional Court in Kosovo ruled that parliament’s ratification of a border demarcation deal with Montenegro was done legally.
11. The Supreme Court in Chechnya will hear an appeal in the case of a prominent human rights defender who has spent nearly four months in detention on drug charges that associates say were fabricated.
12. The Supreme Court in India warned that the Taj Mahal is turning brown and green due to pollution and neglect.
13. The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom reserved its decision in the “gay cake” case.

In the News

1. The Romanian President announced that he will send the justice laws redefining the magistrates’ status and responsibilities to the Constitutional Court and the Venice Commission for analysis.
2. An independent selection committee designated to appoint a new Constitutional Court judge in Indonesia called on Indonesians with extensive knowledge of constitutional law to participate in the selection process.
3. The Prime Minister of Gabon resigned after the constitutional court dissolved the parliament.
4. The National Assembly in Armenia did not elect a new member of the Constitutional Court of Armenia.
5. The United Kingdom ratified the Unified Patent Court Agreement.
6. The Supreme Court President in Israel pleaded with the Prime Minister not to endanger democracy.
7. The Israeli parliament approved a law empowering the country’s prime minister and defense minister to declare war.
8. The Armenian Parliament failed to elect a new prime minister.
9. The Rwandan Parliament summoned five ministers for failing to address citizen’s concerns.
10. The Iraqi who threw shoes at the president Bush runs for the Iraqi parliament.
11. The city of Phnom Penh banned protests outside Cambodia’s parliament ahead of the forthcoming national elections.
12. The parliament in Chad approved a new constitution expanding the president’s powers.
13. Police intervened in the opening of the Parliament of Sierra Leone.
14. Dozens of women run in first parliamentary elections in Lebanon since 2009.
15. The second ordinary session of the Jordanian parliament was discontinued by a royal decree.

New Scholarship

1. Jonathan L. Marshfield, The Amendment Effect, Boston University Law Review (2018) (analyzing original data for evidence that formal constitutional amendment rates effect the practice of judicial review).
2. Hualing Fu, John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson, William Edmund Partlett (eds.), Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (2018 forthcoming) (offering a fresh theoretical approach to socialist laws which demonstrates how socialist law in China and Vietnam may shape the future of global legal development among developing countries).
3. Melissa Curley, Björn Dressel and Stephen McCarthy, Asian Studies Review (2018) Competing Visions of the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia: Power, Rhetoric and Governance (offering insight into the social dynamics affecting how the rule of law in Southeast Asia is being interpreted by political actors and being contested and consolidated via governance practices).
4. Stefanus Hendrianto, Law and Politics of Constitutional Courts, Indonesia and the Search for Judicial Heroes (2018) (evaluating different models of judicial leadership in Indonesia and the impact that individual chief justices can have on the development of constitutional courts) (20% Discount Available – enter the code FLR40 at checkout).
5. Mark Elliott, Jason NE Varuhas, Shona Wilson Stark (eds.), The Unity of Public Law? Doctrinal, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (2018) (investigating a unifying and disunifying framework for understanding public law in comparative perspective).
6. Raphael Minder, The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain (2017) (analyzing what sets the Catalans apart from Spain, and how the separatist debate is playing out).
7. Paul Yowell, Constitutional Rights and Constitutional Design: Moral and Empirical Reasoning in Judicial Review (2018) (arguing that in comparison to legislatures, the institutional capacities of courts are deficient and considering the implications of comparative institutional capacity for constitutional design).
8. Jocelyn Stacey (ed.), The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency (2018) (recentering the debates in environmental law around the question of why governance under the rule of law is something worth having in the environmental context).
9. Stefano Bartolini, The Political (2018) (analyzes the politics as the production and distribution of “behavioral compliance” as opposed to the view of politics as a distribution of values, an aggregation of preferences or a solution to social dilemmas).
10. Antonio Floridia, From Participation to Deliberation: A Critical Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy (2017) (providing a history of the idea of deliberative democracy, analyzing its relationship with the earlier idea, and practices of participatory democracy in the 1960s and 1970s).
11. Alice Valdesalici, Francesco Palermo and Annika Kress (eds.), Comparing Fiscal Federalism (2018 forthcoming) (investigating intergovernmental financial relations and the current de jure and de facto allocation of financial and fiscal powers in compound states from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective).

Call for Papers and Announcements

1. The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford organizes a debate “Catalonia: A Constitutional Debate” on 10 May 2018 in Oxford. Registrations must be completed online.
2. The University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral research position in Digital Democracy/Computational Social Science. The deadline for applications is 31 May 2018.
3. The Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI) and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies (GGS), together with Pax Christi Vlaanderen and Vredesactie organize an international conference “Parliamentary War Powers – National and European Perspectives” on 25 May 2018 in Brussels. Participation is free of charge, but registration is required.
4. The European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the Natolin campus of the College of Europe and the European Forum Alpbach welcome applications for the 6th ENP PhD Summer School “The European Neighbourhood Policy: Principled Pragmatism and the Quest for Resilience” on 15-31 August 2018. The deadline for applications is 10 May 2018.
5. The South Dakota State University invites proposals for panels, individual presentations, and workshops for the “International Conference on Global Human Rights” on 4-6 October 2018 in Brookings. The proposals must be submitted no later than 18 May 2018 to SDStateGHRC@gmail.com.
6. The University of Oslo invites applications for an assistant professor (postdoctoral fellow) in Political Science. The deadline for applications is 22 May 2018.
7. The KU Leuven hosts the “15th International Conference on Social Sciences” on 13-14 July 2018 in Leuven. The deadline for a submission of abstracts is 23 May 2018.
8. The University of Tartu, the Uppsala University, and the University of Kent announce a call for abstracts for the research workshop “Democracy in Reverse: Patterns of Autocratization in Eastern Europe and Eurasia” on 19 October 2018 in Tartu. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 15 May 2018.
9. The University of Groningen invites applications for a PhD position “Privatization through Technology”. The deadline for applications is 31 May 2018.
10. The Government and Law Research Group at the University of Antwerp organizes the 8th PhD Conference “Values and principles in multilevel governance: challenges and opportunities” on 25 May 2018. The deadline for registrations is 18 May 2018.
11. The EURAC invites applications for the yearly Federal Scholar in Residence Program. The deadline for applications is 1 July 2018.

Elsewhere Online

1. Iddo Porat, The problem with Iceland’s proposed ban on circumcision, EUROPP
2. Jessica van der Meer, Paws for Thought: The High Court tackles PSPOs in a Landmark Judgment, UK Constitutional Law Association
3. Alexander Horne, Dispute Resolution and Enforcement after Brexit, UK Constitutional Law Association
4. Asanga Welikala, The perils of semi-presidentialism? The collapse of cohabitation and the design of executive power in Sri Lanka, Blog of the IACL, AIDC
5. Scott Bomboy, Presidential subpoenas: An unsettled matter?, National Constitution Center
6. Ozgur H. Cinar, Chronic human rights problems of Turkey during the EU accession process, openDemocracy
7. Matt Ford, How the Supreme Court Could Rewrite the Rules for DNA Searches, The New Republic
8. Tomohiro Osaki and Daisuke Kikuchi, Abe’s dream to revise Japan’s Constitution drifts farther from reach as long-running scandals chip away at support, japantimes
9. Tim Gray, How Supreme Court Changed Course of Studio System 70 Years Ago, Variety
10. Michael Reigner, Access to information and the fourth wave of rights, The Völkerrechtsblog
11. Arianna Giovannini, England’s local elections 2018: the unusual case of Sheffield City Region’s mayoral contest, Democratic Audit UK
12. Tobias Lock, Has Parliament Taken Charge of Brexit?, Verfassungsblog
13. Terry Carney, Robo-Debt Illegality: A Failure of Rule of Law Protections?, AUPUBLAW
14. Katharine Adeney, Divide to rule? Federal Innovation (and its lack) in South Asia, 50 Shades of Federalism

—Vicente F. Benítez R., JSD student at NYU and Constitutional Law Professor at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia)

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 on “What’s New in Public Law,” please email contact.iconnect@gmail.com.

Developments in Constitutional Courts

1. The Supreme Court of India concluded that Electricity Regulatory Commissions must have a member with experience before the judiciary, be it as judge or as practitioner.
2. The Supreme Court of Canada held that children’s views must be considered when deciding child-abduction-related international cases.
3. The Supreme Court of Canada upheld New Brunswick regulation limiting the amount of spirits and beer that can be introduced into the Province, based on the principle of regional diversity.
4. The UK Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge against a Court of Appeal’s decision that denied the request of a terminally-ill toddler’s parents to take the kid to Rome for further treatment.
5. The US Supreme Court struck down a provision that required the compulsory deportation of immigrants convicted of some ‘crimes of violence’.
6. The Constitutional Court of Malta rejected the Nationalist Party’s claim according to which the Electoral Commission does not have authority to investigate and decide infractions to party finance regulations.
7. The US Supreme Court ruled that foreign corporations are immune for violations of Human Rights under the Alien Tort Statute.
8. The Constitutional Court of South Africa ordered the Judicial Services Commission to disclose the discussions that led to the appointment of several judges in western Cape.
9. The Russian Supreme Court upheld the conviction against opposition leader Alexei Navalny and his brother, despite an European Court of Human Rights decision that concluded that their right to a fair trial had been violated.
10. The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the ‘Travel-ban case’.
11. The Constitutional Court of Slovakia declared that freezing the salaries of several public officials is unconstitutional.
12. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine annulled an act that establishes the requirements for conducting referenda.
13. The Peruvian Constitutional Tribunal ordered the release from prison of former President Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia.
14. The Constitutional Court of Germany clarified the indirect effects of equality in private law relations, and considered that the stadium-attendance ban imposed on the complainant did not infringe the Basic Law.

In the News

1. India’s Cabinet passed a Criminal Law Ordinance establishing death penalty for child’s rapists and increasing the punishment for women’s rapists.
2. Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission introduced eight amendment proposals to the state constitution, in order to be considered in the forthcoming November 2018 general election ballot.
3. The President of the Comoros, Azali Assoumani, suspended the Constitutional Court claiming that the impossibility of appointing all its members, has produced a state of institutional blockade.
4. The Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation is set to vote on a bill that allows the Knesset to override decisions issued by the Supreme Court.
5. The Cuban National Assembly appointed Miguel Díaz-Canel as new President of Cuba.
6. Political stalemate over the need to reform the national referendum act persists in South Korea between opposition parties and the governmental coalition. President Moon Jae-in expressed concerns over the Assembly’s failure in passing said changes.
7. Main political opposition forces in Turkey seek to forge an alliance to choose a unified presidential candidate to compete against President Erdoğan in the next presidential elections.
8. Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega, reversed several changes proposed to the social security system, amidst popular demonstrations.
9. The Vice-President of India and chairman of the Upper House of Parliament, Venkaiah Naidu, criticized the impeachment claim filed against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
10. The French National Assembly passed new legislation tightening asylum-related regulations.
11. Mario Abdo-Benítez was elected as new President of Paraguay.
12. Armenian Prime Minister, Serzh Sargsyan, resigned to his post after days of protests and criticisms for his long tenure as PM.
13. The UK House of Lords voted in favor of keeping the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights after the UK leaves the European Union.
14. The US District Court for the District of Columbia found that the government’s termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA) was arbitrary.
15. The President of the Constitutional Court of Turkey, Zühtü Arslan, said that the Court’s rulings are binding for all judges as a response to a local court’s decision that refused to follow an order to release two jailed journalists.
16. According to a recent poll, 61% of interviewees disagree with PM Abe’s proposals to amend the Japanese Constitution.
17. The Prime Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, declared that rejecting a deal with the UK over post-Brexit powers, was in the national interest of Scotland.
18. The Prime Minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, set May 24, 2018 as the date for next elections, after criticisms advanced by opposition forces due to his delay in doing so.
19. The Judiciary Committee of the Nigerian Senate will determine whether President Muhammadu Buhari breached the Constitution when he agreed on purchasing military aircrafts to the US without prior consultation to the National Assembly.
20. The North Korean leader Kim Jon Un and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in met in the demilitarized zone to initiate a historic summit in which they signed a pledge to end war between the two nations.
21. The President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, publicly called for PM Viorica Dancila’s resignation in the wake of her support to move the Romanian embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
22. Indu Malhotra was sworn in as new Justice of the Indian Supreme Court, making her the first woman from the Bar to achieve this position.
23. The President of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, nominated Emil Babayan as new judge of the Constitutional Court.

New Scholarship

1. Kim Lane Scheppele, Autocratic Legalism, The University of Chicago Law Review (2018) (exploring the paths taken by legalist autocrats to consolidate power, and suggesting some strategies to stop them)
2. Roni Mann, Non-ideal theory of constitutional adjudication, Global Constitutionalism (2018) (advancing a non-ideal theory for constitutional courts to decide institutionally hard cases, that is, cases where deciding in line with what is constitutionally right may provoke a backlash coming from the elected branches of government or the public)
3. Robert Böttner, The size and structure of the European Commission: legal issues surrounding project teams and a (future) reduced College, European Constitutional Law Review (2018) (analyzing the introduction of the so-called ‘project teams’ to the European Commission structure, in light of its compatibility with the Commission’s organizing principles)
4. Rosalind Dixon, Functionalism and Australian Constitutional Values, in Rosalind Dixon (ed.), Australian Constitutional Values (2018) (claiming that despite the lack of any express statement of constitutional values in the Australian Constitution, courts have resorted to moral and political values to make constitutional decisions)
5. James A Sweeney, The Elusive Right to Truth in Transitional Human Rights Jurisprudence, International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2018) (developing a comparative account of the scope of the duty to find truth in transitional scenarios, and arguing that underlying values of human rights treaties can provide a basis for a right to truth)
6. Melissa Crouch, Dictators, Democrats, and Constitutional Dialogue: Myanmar’s Constitutional Tribunal, International Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2018) (proposing an explanation to identify the internal factors –such as the influence of elected officials and military actors– that have led to the actual operation of Myanmar’s Constitutional Tribunal)
7. David Landau, Populist Constitutions, The University of Chicago Law Review (2018) (examining the relationship between constitutional change and populism, and claiming that populists use constitutional change to deconstruct the previous liberal order, to create a new substantive project and to consolidate power in the hands of the ruler)
8. Ingrid Leijten, Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights (2018) (examining the idea of core rights protection in constitutional and international law, and linking it to the protection of socio-economic rights under the European Convention on Human Rights)
9. Mathias Siems, Malicious legal transplants, Legal Studies (2018) (explaining the reasons behind the existence of malicious legal transplants and indicating how they can be prevented)
10. Günter Frankenberg, Comparative Constitutional Studies. Between Magic and Deceit (2018) (contending that each constitution has an interesting story to tell, and offering a different approach to comparative constitutional law which is based on finding and conveying particular constitutional narratives)
11. Michel Rosenfeld, Judicial Politics versus Ordinary Politics: Is the Constitutional Judge Caught in the Middle? in Christine Landfried (ed.), Judicial Power (forthcoming 2018) (suggesting that judicial politics is distinguishable from ordinary politics, but recognizing that both are closely intertwined and may overlap in some situations)
12. Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan, Pierre-Hugues Verdier & Mila Versteeg (eds.), Comparative International Law (2018) (entertaining the idea that international law is not a monolithic whole but rather that its interpretation and application varies among states, thus opening the door for meaningful international-law-based comparisons across countries)

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. Cybersecurity Research Center – The CyberLaw Program, Hebrew University and The Center for Cyber Law and Policy, Haifa University, invite contributions for their forthcoming conference on “AI: Law and Policy”. Submissions should be sent by June 1, 2018
2. The Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), Sciences Po Law School, and the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania invite paper proposals for their conference on “The Transnationalization of Anti-corruption Law”, to be held on 6-7 December, 2018. The deadline for papers’ submission is July 23, 2018.
3. The American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP), calls for panels and papers to the Fifth Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, which will take place in September 2018. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2018.
4. The Faculty of Law of the University of Gambia presents the inaugural number of the Gambia Law Review, and invites interested scholars to check the forthcoming call for papers for the next issue.
5. The Center for Global Constitutionalism at WZB convenes its Berlin Colloquium on Global and Comparative Public Law, which will be held during the summer semester of 2018.

Elsewhere Online

1. Yash Ghai, Perils of allowing politicians to push Constitution amendment, The Star
2. Johannes Karreth & Jaroslav Tir, The international community struggles to end civil wars. How can international organizations help? OUPblog
3. Tavleen Singh, Saving democracy, really? The Indian Express
4. Jan-Werner Müller, ‘Democracy’ Still Matters, The New York Times
5. Everaldo Lamprea & Daniela García, Recent Trends in Climate Change Litigation: Colombia’s Amazon and Juliana v U.S, OxHRH Blog
6. Adnan Rasool, Pakistan’s activist Supreme Court endangers a fragile democracy, The Conversation
7. Keith E. Whittington, I.P. Congressional War Power, Lawfare
8. Marty Lederman, On the so-called “Global Injunction” question in the Travel Ban case, Balkinization
9. Joe McIntyre, What is Administrative Law About? Power, Rights, and Judicial Culture in Australia, AUSPUBLAW
10. Wojciech Sadurski, Bad Response to a Tragic Choice: the Case of Polish Council of the Judiciary, Verfassungsblog
11. Michela Palese, How online quizzes could improve information during election campaigns: lessons from Germany, The Constitution Unit
12. Samuel Moyn, How the Human Rights Movement Failed, The New York Times
13. Marina Brilman, Environmental Rights and the Legal Personality of the Amazon Region, EJIL: Talk!
14. Patrick Utz, Austrian Federal Reform Stops Before It Starts, Centre on Constitutional Change
15. Eleni Frantziou, Mangold Recast? The ECJ’s Flirtation with Drittwirkung in Egenberger, European Law Blog
16. Violeta Beširević, The Draft Amendments to the Serbian Constitution: Populism before Judicial Independence, Verfassungsblog
17. Alexander Noyes, In Africa, presidential term limits are working, The Washington Post
18. Maria Belén Saavedra, Claudia Sarmiento, Diego Garcia-Ricci, Eleana Rodriguez, Christopher Campbell-Duruflé, Olimpia Boido, Carlos Herrera Vacaflor, Mercedes Cavallo, & Esteban Vallejo-Toledo, Chile: Constitutional Court abortion decision – now in English! reprohealthlaw blog
19. Mark Bennett, The Ever-Expanding “Emergency” Exception: Syria, the War Powers Convention, and the Bypassing of Prior Parliamentary Debate, U.K. Const. L. Blog
20. Nanako Tamaru, Five Strategies for Increasing Women’s Influence in Constitution Making, Blog of the IACL, AIDC
21. Alan Greene, Ireland v the UK and the Hooded Men: A Missed Opportunity? Strasbourg Observers