Category: Developments
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Conference on “The Separation of Powers: A Global Constitutional Dialogue” at the University of Milan, May 22, 2017
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Antonia Baraggia (Milan), Luca Vanoni (Milan), Cristina Fasone (LUISS) and I are convening a conference on “The Separation of Powers: A Global Constitutional Dialogue.” We will gather at the University of Milan on Monday, May 22, 2017, at Sala Napoleonica, via Sant’Antonio 12.
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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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Considering the First Phase of Ireland’s Citizen Assembly
—Eoin Carolan, University College Dublin Last weekend, Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly issued its recommendations on the first of the topics which the Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) asked it to consider: the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment, which was approved in a referendum in 1983, inserted a new Article 40.
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Conference on “Imposed Constitutions: Aspects of Imposed Constitutionalism”
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Xenophon Contiades (President of the Centre for European Constitutional Law, Convenor of the Research Group on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change in the IACL) and Alkmene Fotiadou (Centre for European Constitutional Law) are once again hosting a conference on an important and provocative subject.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Angelique Devaux, French Licensed Attorney (Notaire) 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–“What can Central and Eastern Europe Learn from the Development of Canada’s Constitutional System?”–Budapest, Hungary–28 June 2017
Call for Papers International Symposium on What can Central and Eastern Europe Learn from the Development of Canada’s Constitutional System? On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of Confederation Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Law Egyetem tér 1-3. Budapest, Hungary 28 June 2017 Convened by Pál Sonnevend Nóra Chronowski Eszter Bodnár Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy This…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Sandeep Suresh, LL.M in Comparative Constitutional Law (Central European University, Budapest) 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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What’s at Stake in the Turkish Constitutional Amendment Proposal
–Ilayda Gunes, The University of Chicago Law School In the wake of the failed coup attempt of July 15, 2016, Turkey has been struggling to heal its wounds under a state of emergency. Apart from the loss of hundreds of lives and more than 2,000 injured in clashes during the abortive coup, the country has also…
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Venezuela’s Recent Constitutional Crisis: Lessons to be Learned From a Failed Judicial Coup D’etat (I-CONnect Column)
—Javier Couso, Universidad Diego Portales [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts.
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Chaos, Kings, and Thailand’s 20th Constitution
—Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Chulalongkorn University After three years, three commissions, and millions of Baht spent, Thailand’s 20th Constitution finally came into effect. On the 6th day of April 2017, King Vajiralongkorn signed the Constitution in presence of the royal family members, courtiers, the cabinet, members of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA), judges, diplomats, and other bureaucrats at…