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  • ICON Volume 22, Issue 1: Editorial

    Editorial: In this issue; Honoring our peer reviewers; The human ChatGPT—The use and abuse of research assistants In this issue In the Letters to the Editors, Zhaoxin Jiang replied to Chien-Chih Lin’s article in the I•CON: Debate! published in our volume 21:2 issue and to Ming-Sung Kuo’s Letter to the Editors in volume 21:3.

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  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Juan Sebastián López, researcher in international human rights law and constitutional law, J.D. Universidad Externado de 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…

  • The Cautious Attitude of the Italian Constitutional Court on Assisted Suicide: An Example of “Passive Activism”?

    —Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] On July 18th, 2024, the Italian Constitutional Court (hereinafter ICC) ruled (for the fourth time in the last few years) on assisted suicide (decision n° 135/2024).

  • After Chevron: The Constitutional Foundations of U.S. Administrative Law from a Comparative Latin American Perspective

    –José Ignacio Hernández, Constitutional and Administrative Law Professor, Catholic University and Central University (Venezuela). Invited Professor, PUCMM (Dominican Republic), Castilla La Mancha and La Coruña (Spain), Senior Associate, Center for Strategical and International Studies. In the Loper Bright case[1], the Supreme Court overruled Chevron, stating that “Courts must exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether…

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law University of Tuzla and a member of the Constitutional Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. —Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna.

  • CJEU Delivers Pivotal Decision on Women’s Rights and International Protection: Judgment C-646/21

    –Virginia Lemme, University of Siena Is being a woman who believes in the value of gender equality sufficient for recognition of international protection in the context of refugee status? On June 11, 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a decision[1], pertaining to the case C- 646/21, addressing once again the…

  • Documenting Injustice: Constitutional Challenges on Celluloid – A Reportage from Sheffield DocFest 2024

    —Mara Malagodi, Reader (Associate Professor), Warwick Law School The 2024 edition of Sheffield DocFest “Reflections on Realities” took place on 12-17 June. I attended as an industry delegate. Using the films screened and the discussions held at this fascinating event, I will explore in this post the intriguing question of what we can learn by…

  • The Catalan Process of Independence and the Spanish Amnesty Act

    — Pau Bossacoma Busquets, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. After being rejected by the upper house of the Spanish Parliament, the Amnesty Act 2024 “for the institutional, political and social normalization in Catalonia” has nonetheless been passed by the lower house with an absolute majority (177 Ayes v.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Mikołaj Wolanin, Master’s student, University of Warsaw (Poland) 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.

  • Feminist Constitutionalism: Part VIII – The Future of Feminist Constitutionalism: Challenges and Opportunities

    This is the eighth and final essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil’, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

  • What’s New in Public Law

    –Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, Institut Michel Villey, Panthéon-Assas 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.

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