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ICON Volume 22, Issue 4: Table of Contents
I•CON Volume 22 Issue 4 Table of Contents Editorial: In this issue; In this issue—Reviews; My patria is the book: Ten good reads 2024 Articles Michael Karayanni, A “third camp” in Israel’s constitutional upheaval: The voice of the silent Palestinian-Arab minority Martijn W.
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ICON Volume 22, Issue 4: Editorial
In this issue; In this issue—Reviews; My patria is the book: Ten good reads 2024 In this issue In our Editorial, Joseph H. H. Weiler shares his annual “Good Reads”, carefully chosen for those seeking inspiration for a gift or for a very good read at home on a lazy Sunday.
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Flirtations with the People: The Glimmer of the 1991 Colombian Constitution
—Jorge González Jácome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] The government of Colombia’s left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, has recently put forward the idea of using a citizen participation mechanism to revive one of his social…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna 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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Bangladesh’s Apolitical Constitution-making Initiative: Silver Lining or Slippery Slope?
—Kawser Ahmed, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor, Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals The Long and the Short On 05 August 2024, in the face of a massive Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (AdSM) protesting the discriminatory quota system in government jobs – which later escalated into demands for her resignation – the then…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra 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…
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The ‘Intermestic’ Transitional Constitution of South Sudan
— Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School Every constitution drafted since at least the 18th century has this feature. What is it? If you said ‘constitutional borrowing’, give yourself a pat on the back! South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution is no exception in this respect.
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South Korean Constitutional Court Upholds Impeachment of President Yoon for Abusing Emergency Power
—Yoomin Won, Seoul National University School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On April 4, 2025, South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol in a unanimous decision.
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How to Judge a Judge: Balancing Accountability, Independence and Fairness
–Ria Mohammed-Davidson, LLB (Hons), LEC (Hons), LLM (Harvard), Chambers of Mr. Rolston F. Nelson, S.C. In The Judicial and Legal Service Commission v Marcia Ayers-Caesar, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (‘JCPC’) was confronted with the eight-year constitutional controversy surrounding the elevation of the Chief Magistrate to the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago…
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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. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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Rule of Law or Rule of Trump? How the United States is Defining Canada’s Election
—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Associate Professor and Director, Housing Research Collaborative; Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] These days, Canadian media is entirely consumed with President Trump’s latest dramas, from tariffs to the unilateral…
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Call for Proposals: New Directions in Scholarship
The Committee on New Directions in Scholarship of the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) invites book proposals to be considered for the “New Scholarship Showcase” – a series of virtual events, envisaged as interviews with authors, dedicated to new books in public law.
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