Category: Announcements; Call for Papers

Tras el éxito de la convocatoria a los primeros números en español, el International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) tiene el agrado de anunciar que el segundo número en español se publicará en el volumen 20, número 4, de este año.

Stories of the impact of Covid 19 on inequalities in academia and beyond When the Covid 19 pandemic first started spreading globally in spring 2020, it seemed it could be an “equalizing threat”: The virus affected people in various parts of the world, regardless of nationality, wealth, social standing.

Next Tuesday, April 28, a group of Latin American legal scholars will be discussing the recent book prepared by the ICON-S Mexican Chapter and sponsored by the Mexican Supreme Court, entitled “Constitutional Justice in Times of Change,” edited by Roberto Niembro and Sergio Verdugo.

—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Please join I-CONnect in congratulating Alex Tsesis on his installation as the Raymond and Mary Simon Chair in Constitutional Law at the Loyola University, Chicago, School of Law. Alex is a leading scholar of constitutional law, with a focus on free speech and civil rights. 

—Michaela Hailbronner, University of Pretoria, South Africa ICON is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2017, and we are running a short series on books that have inspired us and shaped how we think about comparative law, public international law or human rights (all broadly defined).

A message from the I-CON Co-Editors-in-Chief, Joseph Weiler and Gráinne de Búrca, faculty directors of the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law: The Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law is currently accepting applications for its Emile Noël Fellowship Program  for AY 2017/18.