Category: Developments
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Parliamentarism in Brazil: Stability for Whom?
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasilia The current moment of political instability and growing discontent with the political class in Brazil has sparked a debate over the possibility of implementing parliamentarism as a way out. This radical change has been defended as a more stable system of government.[1]
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The Colombian Constitutional Court at the Crossroads of Peace
—Antonio Barreto-Rozo & Jorge González-Jácome, Universidad de los Andes The Colombian Constitutional Court has the final word on the legality of a large number of rules that seek to implement the peace agreement (hereafter the PA) reached last year between the government and the FARC guerrillas.
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Invitation to Friends of I-CONnect: The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums
–Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Friends of I-CONnect are invited to attend a symposium that Richard Stacey and I have organized at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law on September 22-23, 2017 on the subject of “The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums.”
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Appel à propositions–Forum de la jeune recherche en droit comparé–25 juillet 2018–Fukuoka, Japon
Appel à propositions Forum de la jeune recherche en droit comparé XXe Congrès international Académie internationale de droit comparé Fukuoka, Japon 25 juillet 2018 Les jeunes chercheurs sont invités à participer au tout premier Forum de la jeune recherche en droit comparé, qui se tiendra à Fukuoka, au Japon, le mercredi 25 juillet…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Maja Sahadžić, Ph.D. Researcher (University of Antwerp) 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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Japan Supreme Court Limits Police GPS Surveillance, Citing Constitution Article 35
–Lawrence Repeta, Member, Japan Civil Liberties Union and former Professor, Meiji University On March 15 of this year, the Supreme Court of Japan issued a rare decision that limits the authority of the police to conduct surveillance operations. The case involved the placement of GPS tracking devices on the vehicles of surveillance targets.
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Developments in German Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 report on German constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country 2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law. The entire 2016 Global Review is now available in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014378.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Vicente F. Benítez R., Constitutional Law Professor, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) and JSD student at NYU 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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Developments in Italian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
[Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Italian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014378.] –Pietro Faraguna (LUISS University of Rome), Michele Massa (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano), Diletta Tega (University of Bologna), coordinated…
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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.