Category: Developments
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part V. Constitutional Ethnography for Beginners
—David S. Law, University of Virginia School of Law Ethnographic approaches are not as widely practiced among constitutional scholars as they probably should be. Some may harbor perfectly reasonable doubts about the relevance and accessibility of such approaches. There are a number of basic questions that constitutional scholars might fairly ask themselves: “Why should I…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part IV. Where is a Constitution?
Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut In her timely keynote to this symposium, Kim Lane Scheppele notes that “constitutionalism hinges on its being taken for real and taken for granted across a wide swath of the population.” To understand the counter-constitutional movements she talks about, we also need an account of how…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Robert Rybski, Assistant Professor & Head of “Sustainable Finance – Postgraduate Studies in Law and Finance” 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.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Maja Sahadžić, Assistant Professor (Utrecht University), Visiting Professor (University of Antwerp), Senior Research Fellow (Law Institute in B&H), and Affiliated Scholar (CUHK). 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…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part III. Ethnographic Encounters with Brazil’s Constitutions
—Jeffrey Omari, Northern Illinois University, School of Law Even after transitioning to a constitutional democracy at the end of its military dictatorship in the mid 1980s, Brazil has remained a country with a deep history of socioeconomic inequality. Indeed, during their control of the presidency from January 2003 through August 2016, a primary aim of…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Irina Criveț, PhD Candidate Public Law, Koç University 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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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.
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After Twenty Years of the 2002 Indonesian “Constitution”: Will President Jokowi Stay in Power Longer?
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University The year 2022 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Indonesian “2002 Constitution.” But the country did not even have a subdued celebration for the Constitution amidst the increasing abuse of the Constitution by the Joko Widodo (“Jokowi”) administration.
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Pension reform in France: the strategic practice of the Constitution
—Nicolas Séébold, Toulouse I Capitole University. The pension reform project in France is not new. Already evoked during the first quinquennium of Emmanuel Macron (2017-2022), it was considered more reasonable to postpone it while the State was confronted with the COVID crisis.
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century- Part II- Counter-Constitutional Ethnography
—Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University In normal times, most people do not think about constitutions very much. The existence of the institutions of state, their basic rules of operation, the methods for filling official vacancies and the things that the state should not do to its citizens simply seem obvious and work as expected.