Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

  • What’s New in Public Law

    –Neslihan Çetin, PhD Candidate (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) –Sonder Li, LL.M. (King’s College London) 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.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    –Amir Cahane, PhD student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem –Carolina Gomide de Araujo, Master’s student, University of São Paulo 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.

  • Bangladesh One Step Closer to Adopting the Doctrine of Proportionality?

    —Nafiz Ahmed, LL.M. (University of Cambridge); Lecturer, Department of Law, North South University, Dhaka The Supreme Court of Bangladesh (SCBD) has long practiced using the Wednesbury unreasonableness principle to judge the legality of administrative actions and delegated legislation. The Court uses the Wednesbury principle as a tool for substantive judicial review of administrative actions.

  • Free Academics without Academic Freedom?

    —Balázs Majtényi, Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences. Hungary is a land of unfulfilled promises, as it is a member state of the EU and has ratified almost all international human rights documents related to academic freedom. Moreover, the country is located in a geographical region, in Eastern-Central-Europe, where academic freedom has been enshrined in almost all constitutions.

  • Babies, Tires, and Armed Gods Woven Together: The Missing Link in Post-mortem Analysis

    —João Vitor Cardoso, Universidad de Chile** [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] “Democratic decay” has become a hot topic. Leading scholars in the field engaged critically with the nature of the threats facing constitutional democracies today, including climate change, religious fundamentalism, globalization, and populism.

  • The “scientific reasonableness” doctrine in the Italian Constitutional Court’s decisions on mandatory vaccinations

    —Micol Pignataro, P.h.D. student in Constitutional Law, University of Bologna, Italy. As we are leaving behind what appears to have been one of the greatest collective traumas our generations have endured in the most recent years, constitutional adjudicators are increasingly engaging with issues concerning the legitimacy of the measures that have been adopted by national decision-makers to manage the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Surbhi Karwa, Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School, India —Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, Master’s student, University Paris Panthéon-Assas 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.

  • The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – I: The Union and the States

    —Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] In his book, Latin American Constitutionalism, Roberto Gargarella calls upon scholars of constitutional law to focus upon the “engine room” of the Constitution: i.e.,

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Leigha Crout, PhD Candidate at King’s College London & William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School —Tina Nicole Nelly Youan, PhD Candidate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Université In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.

  • A Constitutional Crisis in Portugal: The Deadlock at the Constitutional Court

    —Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] The politicization of judicial appointments is one of the most common threats to the rule of law nowadays. Usually, this phenomenon originated in the political branches, as the examples of Poland, Hungary, and, more recently, Spain and Israel show.

Today @iconnect_blog, a report by Neslihan Çetin and Sonder Li on public law developments in the world--cases, papers, CFPs & more: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2023/03/whats-new-in-public-law-347/

Today @iconnect_blog, Amir Cahane & Carolina Gomide de Araujo report on public law developments in the world--cases, papers, CFPs & more: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2023/03/whats-new-in-public-law-346/

Today @iconnect_blog, Nafiz Ahmed discusses the use of the doctrine of proportionality in Bangladesh: http://www.iconnectblog.com/2023/03/bangladesh-one-step-closer-to-adopting-the-doctrine-of-proportionality/

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