Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Category: Developments

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Juan Sebastián López, researcher in international human rights law and constitutional law, J.D. Universidad Externado de Colombia. 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.

  • Announcement | Proposal for Taiwanese Chapter of ICON-S

    —Felicia Caponigri and Johanna Fröhlich, Co-Directors of Chapter Development, The International Society of Public Law The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) has received a proposal from Chien-Chih Lin & Yi-Li Lee to create a Taiwanese chapter of ICON-S. Please write to icons.chapterdevelopment@gmail.com

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Claudia Marchese, Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Sassari (Italy) Developments in Constitutional Courts South Africa’s electoral commission appealed to the Constitutional Court to rule on whether former President Jacob Zuma can stand as a candidate in general elections in May considering that in 2021 he was convicted and sentenced to 15 months in prison.

  • 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 links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books, articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.

  • The future for citizens’ assemblies in Ireland

    —Seána Glennon, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law In the past decade, the Irish people have voted in favour of a range of liberalising constitutional amendments: from marriage equality to abortion rights to removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Luxor Elementary Court, Egypt. LLM Leeds Beckett University, UK. –Jose Mario de la Garza-Martins, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Theory, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.

  • After the Indonesian 2024 General Election: What Went Wrong With Indonesian Democracy?

    –Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University On March 20th, 2024, the Indonesian Election Commission officially declared that the Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the Presidential Election, which took place on February 14, 2024. The result might not be shocking because Prabowo had maintained a lead in the pre-election survey.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna. —Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law University of Tuzla and a member of the Constitutional Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Mikołaj Wolanin, Master’s student, University of Warsaw (Poland) 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.

  • ICON-S “New Scholarship Showcase”

    New Scholarship Showcase is a brand new format promoted by the ICON-S Committee on “New Directions in Scholarship”. We will periodically invite a public law scholar to discuss his or her newly published book. Our second edition of this new format features Mathew John, Professor and Executive Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence, Jindal Global Law School.