Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Sohag 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…


  • Comparative Constitutional Law and the Problem of “Context”

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    —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.] In this text, I would like to offer some reflections on the practice of comparative constitutional law, drawing from my experience supervising the work of master’s and…


  • Queer Freedom and the Limits of Law: Lessons from For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers

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    –Arifur Rahman, Postgraduate of NYU School of Law and the University of Dhaka, & Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk-cum-Research Associate at the Supreme Court of India; Lawyer and Researcher based in New Delhi. On 16th April, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered its decision in For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    –Dhruv Singhal, B.A. LL.B. (Hons) Candidate at National Law University, Jodhpur, India —Miracle Okoth Okumu Mudeyi, LL.B. (Hons) University of Nairobi, Advocate Trainee, Kenya School of Law, Kenya 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,…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    –Marieta Safta, Professor Phd, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania –Niels Graaf, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 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…


  • Constitutional Court Appointments and Acting Presidents in South Korea: The Messy Aftermath of the Yoon Impeachment

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    —Yoomin Won, Associate Professor, Seoul National University [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On June 3, 2025, South Korea elected a new president of the republic. Lee Jae-myung is now elected from the presidential election that took place following the impeachment decision of the…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Alan Mauricio Jiménez Díaz, PhD. Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. —Sumit Kumar Ganguly, Visiting Faculty, Amity University, Kolkata, India. 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…


  • Call for papers: International Conference — Beyond the State. New Perspectives on the Conceptual Relationships Between Constitution and Society

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    Call for papersInternational ConferenceBeyond the State. New Perspectives on the Conceptual Relationships Between Constitution and Society 29ᵗʰ and 30ᵗʰ January 2026 – Paris Constitutionalism, understood as a means of establishing a political sphere to make it autonomous from society, is seen as having built the opposition between the State and society. At the same time,…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    – Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk (Supreme Court of India) and Kushagr Bakshi, SJD Candidate (University of Michigan) 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…


  • Constitutional Silence, Political Noise: The Case for Strong Federal Involvement in Housing Policy in Canada

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    —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.] Canada’s housing crisis is deepening, and so too is the confusion about which level of government is responsible…


  • Clarifying Gubernatorial Powers in the Legislative Process: The Indian Supreme Court’s Judgment in State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu

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    –John Simte, lawyer and legal researcher based in New Delhi On 08 April 2025, the Indian Supreme Court delivered its judgment in State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu, clarifying the constitutional limits of the Governor’s role under Articles 200 and 201 of the Constitution. The case arose from a prolonged standoff between…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, India —Olumide Opeyemi Toyinbo, Postgraduate Student, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria 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…


  • Commodifying Nationality, Undermining Democracy

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    —Goran Selanec, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] At the end of April, the Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered a highly anticipated ruling in the case C-181/23 Commission v Malta.[1] The case concerned the possibility of issuing the so-called “golden…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Erick Guapizaca Jiménez, SJD Candidate, University of Michigan Law School. —Rajesh Ranjan, Lawyer, Researcher & former Samta (Equity) fellow based in India. 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…


  • ICON•S Brasília: By the Numbers

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    —Evan Rosevear, Lecturer in Public Law, University of Southampton & Deputy Secretary-General of ICON•S The preliminary schedule for ICON•S Brasília (28-30 July 2025) is now available to members of the Society. This year’s parallel panel sessions feature 1,407 papers submitted by 1,183 individual scholars based at institutions in 58 countries organized into 339 panels. In…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    –Gonen Ilan and Sarthak Sahoo 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —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. To submit relevant developments…


  • Flirtations with the People: The Glimmer of the 1991 Colombian Constitution

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    —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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —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. To submit…


  • Bangladesh’s Apolitical Constitution-making Initiative: Silver Lining or Slippery Slope?

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    —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…