Category: Developments
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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…
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The “scientific reasonableness” doctrine in the Italian Constitutional Court’s decisions on mandatory vaccinations
—Micol Pignataro, P.h.D. student in Constitutional Law, University of Bologna, Italy. As we are leaving behind what appears to have been one of the greatest collective traumas our generations have endured in the most recent years, constitutional adjudicators are increasingly engaging with issues concerning the legitimacy of the measures that have been adopted by national…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Surbhi Karwa, Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School, India —Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, Master’s student, University Paris Panthéon-Assas 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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What’s New in Public Law
—Leigha Crout, PhD Candidate at King’s College London & William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School —Tina Nicole Nelly Youan, PhD Candidate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Université In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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A Constitutional Crisis in Portugal: The Deadlock at the Constitutional Court
—Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] The politicization of judicial appointments is one of the most common threats to the rule of law nowadays. Usually, this phenomenon originated in the political branches, as the examples of Poland, Hungary, and,…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Silvio Roberto Vinceti, Research Fellow, Department of Law, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) 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…
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Holding Bolsonaro Accountable: Learning From the Past to Build the Future
—Heloisa Fernandes Câmara, Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraná [Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final substantive post in the ICONnect symposium on the new Lula government in Brazil and the challenge of democratic erosion after Bolsonaro. For the introduction to the symposium, see here.]
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The Armed Forces after Bolsonaro
—Adriana Marques, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro [Editor’s Note: This is the third substantive post in the ICONnect symposium on the new Lula government in Brazil and the challenge of democratic erosion after Bolsonaro. For the introduction to the symposium, see here.]
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What’s New in Public Law
—Claudia Marchese, Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Sassari (Italy) 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…