Welcome to I•CONnect, the official blog of the International Society of Public Law (ICON•S)!

David Landau

Mason Ladd Professor and Associate Dean for International Programs, Florida State University College of Law.

Maartje de Visser

Professor of Law, Lee Kong Chian Fellow; Associate Dean (Research), Singapore Management University

Irene Parra Prieto

Obtained her law degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she also pursued a Master’s in Human Rights. She currently serves as Director of Communications at ICON•S and was previously Editorial Coordinator at IberICONnect. Her research interests include freedom of expression and democratic erosion, with a particular focus on the Latin American region.

Mateo Merchán Duque

Doctoral (JSD) candidate from Colombia at New York University (NYU). He holds an LLM in International Legal Studies from the same institution. Prior to this, Mateo completed his law degree at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where he also served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law and legal research methods. From 2018 to 2022, Mateo worked for the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, the tribunal established in Colombia following the 2016 Peace Agreement. Between 2022 and 2023, Mateo was affiliated as a research assistant with the Prevention Project at the NYU Law Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. In 2023, Mateo coauthored the book Investigación Macrocriminal y Enfoque Restaurativo en la Justicia Transicional (Ed. Tirant lo Blanch).

Ugochukwu Ezeh

Doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. His research interests include constitutional theory, critical security studies, comparative election law, and anti-corruption studies in transitional societies. He earned his BCL and MPhil degrees at the University of Oxford and has worked as a research fellow and lecturer in South Africa and Nigeria respectively. His research has been published in Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ)/World Comparative Law (WCL), Constitutional Studies, and the Routledge Handbook of Election Law

Ewa Karolina Garbarz

PhD Candidate in EU Law at the University of Leicester, and a Graduate Teaching Assistant teaching Land Law. She holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex. She has taught at Birkbeck, University of London and lectured at Kingston University London, since 2024 she is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Ewa is a junior editor for YSEC (Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions). Her interests are anchored within public law, constitutionalism, the rule of law, and challenges to the European integration. Her research was published in the European Law Review, Amicus Curiae Journal, the UK Association for European Law blog, ECHR blog and the European Implementation Network blog.

Paulina Milewska

PhD researcher in law at the European University Institute in Florence, working on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) in Poland and Hungary. As part of her doctoral research, she was a Fulbright-Schuman scholar at NYU School of Law. Before entering academia, she worked as a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza, the leading quality daily in Poland, and later as a legal expert at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom. Her research focuses on the intersection of constitutional law, EU law, democracy, and media freedom in backsliding regimes.

Taís Penteado

Brazilian JSD Candidate and Graduate Fellow at Yale Law School, where she has also completed her LLM degree (2022), and holds PhD (2025), M.A.(2020), and LL.B. (2016) degrees from FGV Law School of São Paulo. Taís researches and writes about equality (in particular, antisubordination-based approaches to law), constitutional law, theory and procedure, democracy theories, legal theory, and fundamental rights in the Global South (particularly Brazil).

Dr. Raeesa Vakil

Studied law at the National Law School of India University, and practiced for several years in Indian courts, including the Supreme Court of India. She researched constitutional issues concerning local government at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi before earning an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School, where her doctoral thesis analysed judicial review over Indian administrative and regulatory tribunals. She has previously published on subjects including constitutional court jurisdiction, regulatory states, judicial review, and administrative adjudication in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Studies in Indian Politics, and the Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution. She’s currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law, where she is researching public interest litigation in South Asia, as well as teaching constitutional and administrative law.

Gustavo Buss

Currently a PhD Candidate at the Federal University of Paraná – UFPR (Brazil). His Master’s dissertation at UFPR received the Academic Excellence Award of 2021. Researcher at CCONS, the Center for Constitutional Studies within UFPR. Executive Secretary for DEMOS, an Observatory for monitoring the electoral risks related to the Brazilian Elections. Director of Technology of the International Society of Public Law – ICON-S. Has academic experience in the fields of Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Human Rights.

Founding Editor Emeritus

Richard Albert

Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. Holds law and political science degrees from Yale, Oxford and Harvard.

Founding Editor Emeritus

Tom Ginsburg

Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Editor Emeritus

Antonia Baraggia

Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Department of National and Supranational Public Law. Holds a PhD in Public Law from the University of Turin.

Editor Emeritus

Jaclyn Neo

Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore (NUS). Graduate of NUS Faculty of Law and Yale Law School.