Category: Developments
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Abusive Legalism Against Indigenous Minorities: Challenges of the Marco Temporal II Case before the Brazilian Supreme Court
—Ranieri L Resende, Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)[1] Soon after celebrating a historic victory before the Supreme Court in the Marco Temporal I case, which held that the date of promulgation of the Constitution could not be used as the mandatory date for the demarcation of indigenous lands, Brazilian indigenous peoples…
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Epilogue: Abusive Judicial Reform in Mexico
—Irene Parra Prieto, IACL-AIDC blog, Rosalind Dixon, University of New South Wales, & David Landau, Florida State University College of Law [Editors’ Note: This is the 9th entry, and the “Epilogue,” of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico.
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Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Solomonic Judgment: Upholding the Constitutionality of Death Penalty at the Limits of Reform
—Ming-Sung Kuo, Reader in Law, University of Warwick (UK), and Hui-Wen Chen, Research Assistant, University of Warwick (UK) Introduction: The Reform Jurisprudence Comes Full Circle? Before the current Taiwan Constitutional Court (TCC) under the leadership of Chief Justice Tzong-Li HSU – call it Hsu’s Court – hit its halfway milestone, we argued in this space…
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 8: The Problem of the Amending or Revising Power and Its Constitutional Limits
—Imer B. Flores, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM [E]very constitution as a whole is a limit,constitutional government means limited government.Hilario Medina [Editors’ Note: This is Part 8 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here.
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 7: A Predicament of Its Own Making – On the Supreme Court of Mexico’s Conundrum on the Limits of Amendment Powers
—Jaime Olaiz-González, Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City)[1] [Editors’ Note: This is Part 7 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 6: The Future of the Mexican Supreme Court
—Alfonso Herrera, Universidad Panamericana & Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City) [Editors’ Note: This is Part 6 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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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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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 5: The Other Judicial Reforms in Mexico – Elected and Faceless Judges, Military Personnel with Investigative Tasks, and Mandatory Pre-Trial Detention
—Sandra Serrano, Researcher at IIJ-UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 5 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 4: The Mexican Judicial Reform — So What?
—Rodrigo Camarena González, ITAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 4 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).
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Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 3: The Judicial Reform Snowball and the State of Mexican Democracy
—Francisca Pou Giménez, UNAM [Editors’ Note: This is Part 3 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here. The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish).