Symposium | Feminist Constitutionalism: Part III – How Feminist Constitutionalism Embraces Diversity: Challenging Quebec’s Bill 21
Published: 4 April, 2024
The future for citizens’ assemblies in Ireland
Published: 3 April, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 1 April, 2024
After the Indonesian 2024 General Election: What Went Wrong With Indonesian Democracy?
Published: 26 March, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 25 March, 2024
Symposium | Feminist Constitutionalism: Part II – Multilevel: The Impact of Feminism in Constitutional Debates
Published: 22 March, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 21 March, 2024
ICON-S “New Scholarship Showcase”
Published: 15 March, 2024
Celebrating International Women’s Day by Promoting Pro-Women Constitutional Amendments: A Risky Strategy?
Published: 13 March, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 11 March, 2024
Symposium | Feminist Constitutionalism: Part I – The Rise of Feminist Constitutionalism: Shaping the Future Through the Lens of Equality
Published: 7 March, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 4 March, 2024
Introducing the 2024 ICONnect Columnists
Published: 27 February, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 26 February, 2024
ICON Volume 21, Issue 4: Editorial
Published: 25 February, 2024
ICON Volume 21, Issue 4: Table of Contents
Published: 24 February, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 19 February, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 12 February, 2024
What’s New in Public Law
Published: 5 February, 2024
Editorial: The human ChatGPT—The use and abuse of research assistants
Published: 27 January, 2024
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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – III: Asymmetric Federalism
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—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 my previous two columns, I examined the Indian Constitution as a terrain of contestation across two axes of power: the centre-state [“federal”] axis, and the legislature-executive [“parliamentary”] axis.
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100 Years of Austrian Republicanism – 100 Years of Austrian Federalism?
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—Anna Gamper, Professor of Public Law, University of Innsbruck 2018 is a very special year for Austrian constitutional lawyers since it was exactly 100 years ago today that the Republic of (German-)Austria (since 1919: Republic of Austria) was founded. After the end of the First World War, the representatives of the remaining, predominantly German-speaking parts of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy (the so-called “Kronländer” or Cisleithanian Länder) assembled as the “Provisional National Assembly for German-Austria” in Vienna.
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Brazilian Federalism and Asymmetries on the 30th Anniversary of the 1988 Constitution
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[Editor’s Note: This is the third entry in our symposium on the “30th Anniversary of the Brazilian Constitution.” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Marcelo Labanca Correa de Araujo, Catholic University of Pernambuco The historical formation of the Brazilian State has much to do with processes of centralization and political-territorial decentralization.
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Special Issue of Perspectives on Federalism on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform”
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—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Under the leadership of Giuseppe Martinico, the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa hosted an international symposium in May 2017 to mark the Sesquicentennial of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1867. The symposium invited scholars to explore four dimensions of the Constitution of Canada: its history, evolution, influence and reform.
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Taking Aim at Cooperative Federalism: The Long-Gun Registry Decision by the Supreme Court of Canada
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—Johanne Poirier[*], Université libre de Bruxelles On March 27, 2015, a highly divided Supreme Court of Canada rendered a momentous ruling which reveals a severe divergence on the nature of Canadian contemporary federalism.[1] The tight 5 to 4 decision also underlines a different conception of the role of the judicial branch regarding the defence and promotion of cooperative behaviour by public authorities, principally the legislative branch, under Canadian constitutional law.
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Cooperative Federalism Divides the Supreme Court of Canada: Quebec (Attorney General) v. Canada (Attorney General)
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—Paul Daly, University of Montreal, Faculty of Law On Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada brought to an end the lengthy saga of Canada’s long-gun registry. There was a sharp split on the Court, with a bare majority of five justices giving a narrow win to the federal government over the joint dissent of their three Quebec colleagues (with whom one other justice agreed).
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New Scholarship Review: Interview with Jonathan Marshfield on Federalism and the Amendment Power
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—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In this installment of I-CONnect’s interview series, I speak with Jonathan Marshfield about his forthcoming paper on Decentralizing the Amendment Power. In his new paper, Marshfield explores how and why constitutional amendment rules might be structured to include subnational units in the process of formal amendment.
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Introducing the 2024 ICONnect Columnists
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—David Landau, Florida State University College of Law The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2024: Esther Ang’awa, Aparna Chandra, Tania Groppi, and Miguel Schor. We are certain that they will provide a diverse and fascinating set of voices for our readers, representing a range of regional and substantive areas of focus.
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ICON Volume 21, Issue 4: Editorial
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Editorial: In this issue; In this issue—Reviews; 10 good reads 2023 In this issue In an Editorial Reflection, Aileen Kavanagh considers the importance of unwritten norms to written constitutions—and to the study of comparative constitutional law. According to Kavanagh, closer attention to these norms will deepen our understanding of fundamental constitutional commitments, broaden our understanding of constitutionalism “beyond the courts” (including the work of politicians as well as public administrators, non-governmental organizations, and actors in civil society), and help to bring to light the importance of relationships in constitutional law—including the possibility that government can be imagined as a matter of collaboration, rather than conflict, among public institutions.
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ICON Volume 21, Issue 4: Table of Contents
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I•CON Volume 21 Issue 4 Table of Contents Editorial: In this issue; In this issue—Reviews; 10 good reads 2023 Editorial Reflection Aileen Kavanagh, The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism Articles Jeffrey Steven Gordon, Comparative judicial federalism Julen Etxabe, A dialogical model of human rights adjudication Neli Frost, The global “political voice deficit matrix” I•CON: Debate!