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Judicial Independence under Threat in South Sudan
—Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School In my first post published on 13 April 2025, I discussed the nature of South Sudan’s 2011 Transitional Constitution, calling it a conflation of international template and domestic aspirations. I also discussed the idea of a strong president deeply embedded in that document and how it has…
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Landmark Ruling Issued by the Special Highest Court of Greece: Annulment of Parliamentary Seats without Replacement
—Fereniki Panagopoulou, Associate Professor, Panteion University I. The decision of the Special Highest Court[1] Acting in its capacity as an electoral court, the Special Highest Court οf Greece[2] recently annulled the election of three specific Members of Parliament from the Spartans party, following objections filed against their official proclamation.
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Reimagining Constitutional Equality: Indigenous Governance, Vulnerability, and the Legacy of Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia[*] [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] In 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) issued a landmark decision in Dickson v.
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Can a Policy with an Impossible Aim be Legitimate and Necessary? France’s “Abolitionist” Policy in M.A. and Others v. France
—Thomas Joyce, Tilburg University In July 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held that the criminalisation of the purchase of sexual services did not constitute a violation of the respect for private life, pursuant to Article 8 of the ECHR.
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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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Trump v. CASA, Inc. – The Latest Step in the Undoing of American Democracy
–Masoom Sanyal, Final Year Law Student, Gujarat National Law University, India [Editor’s Note: This post is part of our series on perspectives by undergraduate law students.] The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) had delivered an opinion in Trump v.
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Safeguarding the Rule of Law: The European Public Prosecutor Office’s Role and Challenges
—Goran Selanec, Justice, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] The European Union has been fraught with two alarming trends in the last decade and a half.
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The Relaunch of Constitutional Studies
—Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Assistant Professor, UCL Faculty of Laws and Book Review Editor, Constitutional Studies The International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and the Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP) have launched a new journal: Constitutional Studies (CS). The journal publishes work from a variety of disciplines addressing the theory and practice of constitutional government worldwide.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Law & Economics at the Faculty of Law, University of Lisbon. 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
—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…