Category: Developments
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Join the Team that Brings You “What’s New”
—Richard Albert, Professor of World Constitutions and Director of Constitutional Studies, The University of Texas at Austin We invite expressions of interest from scholars–including graduate students–who wish to join the I-CONnect team that brings you the weekly report on “What’s New in Public Law.”
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I-CONnect Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum – On Morals and Politics: The Chilean Constituent Process
—Rodrigo Kaufmann, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin Constituent Process and Dignity The reasons behind the rejection of the Chilean constitutional draft by the majority of Chileans are complex and hard to pin down. Many excellent contributions to this symposium provide interesting elements for a careful analysis.
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I-CONnect Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum – Dignity and Identity in the Chilean Constitutional Referendum
—Verónica Undurraga, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez The Chilean constituent process has attracted great international interest among constitutional scholars, politicians and advocates for social justice. In 2019, the violent social outbreak had Chilean democracy on a tightrope. However, with remarkable political responsibility, the troubled party system managed to open a political way out of the crisis, by…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Matteo Mastracci, Digital Rights Researcher, Balkin Investigation Reporting Network (BIRN), and PhD Researcher, Koç University, Istanbul 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…
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I-CONnect Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum – New forms of representation and the failure of the Chilean Constitutional Convention
—Maria Isabel Aninat Sahli, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. How can we explain a constitutional process that began with 78% of voters in favor of drafting a new constitution in October 2020 and ended up two years later with 62% of the people opting for rejecting the proposal?
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I-CONnect Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum – The Problem of “Identity” in the Chilean Constitutional Referendum
—João Vitor Cardoso, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Chile In October 2020’s referendum, 78% of Chileans expressed their wish to replace the country’s Constitution, through a fully elected Constitutional Convention. On September 4, 2022, the citizenry was asked by way of a referendum whether it approved the constitutional draft produced by this very constitution-making…
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I-CONnect Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum – Making Sense of Chile’s Failed Constituent Process
—Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales (Chile) and Utrecht University (The Netherlands) I. Last month, Chile’s second attempt to get a new Constitution in the last few years failed again. As opposed to the first constituent initiative (led by former President Bachelet, in 2014-2018, which can be better described as having been aborted), this time the…
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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…
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Brazil’s Most Important Election Ever: What is at Stake and What Might Happen Next?
—Emílio Peluso Neder Meyer, Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília Brazil’s next elections will be held on Sunday, October 2. More than any other political event since the country’s transition to democracy in 1985, these elections are an inflection point for Brazil’s near and long future.