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Convocatoria Quinto Número en Español : International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) [Call for Papers: 5th Spanish-language issue, ICON]
Tras el éxito de la convocatoria a los primeros números en español, el International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) tiene el agrado de invitar a la comunidad académica hispanoparlante a enviar artículos originales para ser incluidos en el quinto número que ICON publicará completamente en español el año 2025.
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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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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 5: The Other Judicial Reforms in Mexico – Elected and Faceless Judges, Military Personnel with Investigative Tasks, and Mandatory Pre-Trial Detention
—Sandra Serrano, Researcher at IIJ-UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 5 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 4: The Mexican Judicial Reform — So What?
—Rodrigo Camarena González, ITAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 4 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 3: The Judicial Reform Snowball and the State of Mexican Democracy
—Francisca Pou Giménez, UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 3 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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The Anna Karenina Principle and Democratic Erosion
—Miguel Schor, Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center, and Class of 1977 Distinguished Scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Leo Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina by observing that happy families are all alike whereas every unhappy family is…
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 2: The Transition to Another Type of Constitutionalism in Mexico
—Roberto Niembro Ortega, UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 2 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 1: Judicial Overhaul and Democratic Backsliding in Mexico
—Tania Groppi, University of Siena (Italy)* [Editors’ Note: This is Part 1 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico: Introduction
—Ana Micaela Alterio, ITAM (Mexico City) [Editors’ Note: This is the introduction to a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The symposium pieces are cross-posted here (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish). We are grateful to Ana Micaela Alterio for her work in organizing the symposium.]
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What’s New in Public Law
—Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Luxor Elementary Court, Egypt. LLM Leeds Beckett University, UK. 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…
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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.
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Global Law and the Black Holes (That Would Like to Gobble it up)
–Giuliano Amato[*] 1. One of the many effects of globalization that marked the beginning of the new century was the awareness that, in a myriad different ways, the process had spawned a global legal space; not just a potential space, but a space increasingly filled with regulations, decisions, certifications, and transactions coming from a multiplicity…
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