Category: Developments
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Call for Papers and Panels–Identity, Security, Democracy: Challenges for Public Law–ICON-S 2018 Annual Conference–Hong Kong, June 25-27, 2018
The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) is pleased to announce that its 2018 Annual Conference will be held in Hong Kong on June 25-27, 2018, under the auspices of the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law and its Centre for Comparative and Public Law – one of Asia’s foremost centres for the study…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Mohamed Abdelaal, Assistant Professor, Alexandria University Faculty of Law 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 law blogosphere.
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Not #LoveWins: On the Indonesian LGBT Case
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Boston College On December 14, 2017, the Indonesian Constitutional issued a long awaited decision on a petition to outlaw extramarital and gay sex.[1] In a 5-4 decision, the Court declared that it has no authority to ban sex outside marriage, including a ban on homosexual relationships.
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The Judicial Ban on Asbestos in Brazil: A Turning Point in the Relationship between International Law and Collective Fundamental Rights?
—Ranieri Lima Resende, PhD. in Law Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Visiting Doctoral Researcher, New York University.* Celebrated as one of the most important news stories of 2017 by environmentalists and human rights’ activists,[1] the recent prohibition of asbestos production and commerce throughout the country, ordered by the Brazilian Supreme Court on…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Simon Drugda, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (UK) 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 law blogosphere.
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Call for Papers–Central and Eastern European Regional Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S)–Budapest, Hungary
Call for Papers The Power of Public Law in the 21st Century Budapest, Hungary – 20 April 2018 International Conference on ’The Power of Public Law in the 21st Century’ On the occasion of the inauguration of the Central and Eastern European Regional Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) Eötvös Loránd University…
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New Contact Information: Moving from Boston to Austin
—Richard Albert, The University of Texas at Austin As of today, I have joined The University of Texas at Austin as Professor of Law. I invite readers with questions about I-CONnect submissions or collaborations to contact me at my new email address: richard.albert[at]law.utexas.edu.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Mohamed Abdelaal, Assistant Professor, Alexandria University Faculty of Law 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 law blogosphere.
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Developments in Chilean Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Chilean constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Iván Aróstica, Justice of the Chilean Constitutional Court & Universidad del Desarrollo; Sergio Verdugo, Universidad del Desarrollo & JSD candidate, New York…
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Conference Report: Sacred/Secular Space Workshop on Law and Religion
–John Joseph Wamwara, Dooyeweerd (SJD) Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University School of Law; Law Lecturer, Moi University and Catholic University of Eastern Africa This conference, held on December 24-25, 2017, was jointly organized by Radzyner Law School at IDC Herzliya, and the the Restoring Religious Freedom Project at Emory…