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What’s New in Public Law
—Anubhav Kumar, Advocate & Researcher, Supreme Court of 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 blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.
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The Taliban and the Fall of Afghanistan’s Constitutional Tradition
–Shamshad Pasarlay (Visiting Lecturer, The University of Chicago Law School) [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] The fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in August 2021 marked yet another abrupt rupture in political power in the country’s long and tumultuous history.
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Grappling with the Civil-Common Law Divide in Constitutional Law
—Maartje De Visser, Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] Considerable attention has been devoted, in comparative law generally, to classificatory efforts.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Matteo Mastracci, Digital Rights Researcher, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), and PhD Researcher, Koç University, Istanbul 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…
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Addressing the Plights of Minorities under Ethiopia’s Ethnic Federal Structure: A Call for Legal Reform
—Dunia Mekonnen Tegegn, Human Rights Lawyer and Gender Equality Advocate Except for mentioning the term ‘minorities’ and reserving 20 seats under article 54(3), the FDRE Constitution does not define the term minorities. However, other laws have discussed minorities. The transnational proclamation No.
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The New Chilean Constitutional Project in Comparative Perspective
—David Landau, Florida State University College of Law[1] The new Chilean constitutional text was delivered by the Constitutional Convention to President Gabriel Boric in a ceremony on July 4, 2022. This ended the year-long Constitutional Convention, itself sparked in large part by a set of massive social protests in 2019.
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From the Least Dangerous Branch of Government to the Most Democratically Disruptive Court in the World
—Miguel Schor, Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center In The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton wrote that the United States Supreme Court is the least dangerous of the three branches of government as it lacks the power of the President or Congress.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Silvio Roberto Vinceti, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 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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Overturning of Roe v Wade: Time to Rethink US Engagement With International Human Rights Law?
—Frédéric Mégret, Professor and Dawson Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University The aftermath of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is leading lawyers throughout the US to fathom its implications, state by state. This drilling down is as it should be, given US constitutional and federal dynamics.
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The Constitutional Value of Citizenship: the Latest Decision from Australia’s High Court
—Elisa Arcioni, Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Law School On 8 June 2022, in the decision of Alexander v Minister for Home Affairs [2022] HCA 19, the High Court of Australia struck down a citizenship-stripping provision as unconstitutional. The ultimate decision rested on the process through which the citizenship could be lost.