Category: Developments
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…