Category: Analysis
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Wildfires, Legal Geography, and the Constitution
—Maria Tzanakopoulou, Senior lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law Amid record temperatures across Europe, the continent is once again confronted by multiple wildfire fronts. Several deaths have been reported while thousands have been evacuated. The EU has triggered its Civil Protection Mechanism to offer emergency assistance, as domestic civil protection services struggle to cope.
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Between Imposition and Consensus: On the Sensibilities of Constitutionalism
—Jorge González-Jacome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On June 7, 2025, Colombians seemed to relive a nightmare they had experienced in the late 1980s.
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Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far
Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far —Andrea Palumbo, Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven[*] The next frontier of risk management: systemic risks in the Digital Services Act and the AI Act In the last decade, EU legislation has experienced a shift to risk-based regulation as the…
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Three Decades Without a Social Contract: A Call for Constitutional Adoption in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
–Hassan Mustafa Hussein, Ph.D. in Constitutional law, Soran University, KRI August 1 is observed worldwide as World Constitution Day. On such significant occasions, it is common for major civilized nations to celebrate their greatest political achievements, usually reflected in a written or other form of constitution.
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South Korea’s Impeachment Tests: A Blueprint for Constitutional Repair
–Kwak Nohyun, former professor of law, Korea National Open University On the night of December 3, 2024, South Korean democracy faced its most severe test since democratization. At 10:29 PM, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared an “extraordinary martial law,” triggering a swift and decisive response.
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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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Comparative Constitutional Law and the Problem of “Context”
—Jorge González Jácome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] In this text, I would like to offer some reflections on the practice of comparative constitutional law, drawing from my experience supervising the work of master’s and…
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Flirtations with the People: The Glimmer of the 1991 Colombian Constitution
—Jorge González Jácome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] The government of Colombia’s left-wing president, Gustavo Petro, has recently put forward the idea of using a citizen participation mechanism to revive one of his social…
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Bangladesh in Stasis: No Way Out Without a New Constitution?
—M A Sayeed, UNSW Sydney, Australia/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, and Lima Aktar, Thomas More Law School, ACU, Melbourne/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh[1] Constitutional crisis may occur for many factors, but when it triggers constitutional transformation, it becomes stasis (Alberto Esu). In Greek, stasis means civil/political unrest, disharmony and, to its most extreme, the breakdown of the constitutional system…