Category: Developments
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century. Part I: Alter-Native Constitutionalism: Decolonising(?) ‘Common’ Law, Transforming South Africa
—Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, University of Massachusetts Amherst More than twenty-five years since becoming a constitutional democracy, South Africa presents the perplexing paradox of arguably having the most progressive Constitution in the world marked by strong socio-economic rights protection while also being the most unequal country in the world (Gini Coefficient: .63) with growing poverty rates.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Mariana Avelar, PhD student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and visiting researcher at Goëthe Universität and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law —Juan Sebastián López, law student at Universidad Externado de Colombia, member of the International Society of Public Law and its Colombian chapter.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Azeem Amedi, LLM in Legal and Political Theory, University of York—Guy Baldwin, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge 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…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century
—Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law On October 14, 2022, the University of Alabama School of Law hosted a symposium centered on “constitutional ethnography”—a term coined almost twenty years ago by Kim Lane Scheppele to describe “the study of the central legal elements of politics using methods that…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Nicola Abate, PhD Candidate, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona —Recep Orhun Kılıç, PhD Student, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Neslihan Çetin, PhD Candidate (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) –Sonder Li, LL.M. (King’s College London) 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Amir Cahane, PhD student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem –Carolina Gomide de Araujo, Master’s student, University of São Paulo 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…
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Bangladesh One Step Closer to Adopting the Doctrine of Proportionality?
—Nafiz Ahmed, LL.M. (University of Cambridge); Lecturer, Department of Law, North South University, Dhaka The Supreme Court of Bangladesh (SCBD) has long practiced using the Wednesbury unreasonableness principle to judge the legality of administrative actions and delegated legislation. The Court uses the Wednesbury principle as a tool for substantive judicial review of administrative actions.
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Free Academics without Academic Freedom?
—Balázs Majtényi, Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences. Hungary is a land of unfulfilled promises, as it is a member state of the EU and has ratified almost all international human rights documents related to academic freedom. Moreover, the country is located in a geographical region, in Eastern-Central-Europe, where academic freedom has been…