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ICON Volume 19, Issue 3: Editorial
Editorial: I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español; Brexit, the Irish Protocol and the “Versailles Effect”; Cancelling Carl Schmitt?; Changes in the masthead; In this issue I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español I•CON has no “nationality.” It is unlike, say, the Ruritanian Journal of Public Law.
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Giving Substance to Singapore’s Fake News Law: Online Citizen
— Marcus Teo, Sheridan Fellow, National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law The threat that fake news poses to free speech and democracy is now well-established, though less established is how Governments should address it. Legislation which requires social media companies and intermediaries to remove or rebuff falsehoods posted on their platforms, like Germany’s Network…
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Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux)
—J.H.H. Weiler, co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law [Editors’ Note: This piece will be published in the next edition of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) as part of the Editorial.] Will we ever see closure to this saga at the center of which one finds the somewhat controversial decision of the International Court…
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Constitutional Boot-strapping in Chile?
—Benjamin Alemparte, Duke Law School, and Joshua Braver, University of Wisconsin Law School Three months into its deliberations, on October 7th, the Chilean Constitutional Convention finished approving its internal regulations. Most significantly, the Convention infringed its legal mandate by tampering with the threshold for its voting rules.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Robert Rybski, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Environment and Sustainable Development. 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…
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France | 2020 Developments in Constitutional Law
—Corinne Luquiens, Member of the Constitutional Council; Nefeli Lefkopoulou, PhD Candidate at Sciences Po Law School; Eirini Tsoumani, PhD Candidate at Sciences Po Law School; Guillaume Tusseau, Professor of Public Law at Sciences Po Law School I. Introduction As in many other countries, the pandemic dominated French constitutional politics in 2020.
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The Contingent Role of the Basic Structure Doctrine for Constitutionalism in Africa
—Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] Kenyan courts’ use of the basic structure doctrine to strike down President Uhuru Kenyatta’s the…
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ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents
Volume 19 Issue 3 Table of Contents Letters to the Editors The population and the individual, David McGrogan Unequal impact, Stephen F. Ross Editorial I•CON: Foreword! Karen J. Alter, From colonial to multilateral international law: A global capitalism and law investigation This Foreword integrates international law, international relations, and global history scholarship to understand two…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Bárbara da Rosa Lazarotto, Master Student at the University of Minho – Portugal; Researcher at the International Legal Research Group on Human Rights and Technology of the European Law Students Association – ELSA. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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Global Fellowship Applications for New York University School of Law | Now Available for the 2022-23 Academic Year
New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the following fellowships: Emile Noël Fellowship Program Deadline: January 15, 2022 The principal objective of the Emile Noël Fellowship program is scholarship and the advancement of research on the themes prioritized by the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice,…