Constitutional States of Emergency or Reshuffling Exception and NormalcyDevelopments
Constitutional States of Emergency or Reshuffling Exception and Normalcy
--Rodrigo Kaufmann, Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Tilburg University, Netherlands A few (Latin) American governments have recently declared…
A Constitutional Dilemma Under Dual Roles in China: Government as Market Participant and RegulatorDevelopments
A Constitutional Dilemma Under Dual Roles in China: Government as Market Participant and Regulator
– Chun-Kit (Kitson) Ng, SJD candidate, University of Minnesota School of Law Nearly three weeks have passed since the first-instance…
What’s New: Week of September 14What's New in Public Law
What’s New: Week of September 14
— Silvia Talavera Lodos, Ph.D., Member of Sant'Anna Legal Studies In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list…
Constitutional Reform in Ethiopia: Challenges, Options, and Pathways ForwardDevelopments
Constitutional Reform in Ethiopia: Challenges, Options, and Pathways Forward
--Mesenbet A. Tadeg (Ph.D.), Chrystal Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College, Department of Political Science Introduction Ethiopia is in a critical constitutional moment.…
Amending the Unamendable: Bangladesh’s Constitutional Paradox After the July UprisingDevelopments
Amending the Unamendable: Bangladesh’s Constitutional Paradox After the July Uprising
--Kazi Ayman Awsaf, Teaching Assistant, School of Law, East West University, Bangladesh Introduction In December 2024, four months after Sheikh…
Whose People? A Critical Legal Studies Reading of Bangladesh’s “Evolutive” Basic StructureDevelopments
Whose People? A Critical Legal Studies Reading of Bangladesh’s “Evolutive” Basic Structure
--Tonmoy Halder, LL.M. Candidate and Research Assistant, Law Discipline, Khulna University, Bangladesh; Co-Editor, Law and Society Students’ Journal Introduction On…
Environmental Impact Assessment: A Procedural Avenue for Enforcing Substantive Climate ObligationsDevelopments
Environmental Impact Assessment: A Procedural Avenue for Enforcing Substantive Climate Obligations
--Raffaele Roberto Severino, PhD Candidate in Sustainability Law and Management, University of Siena, r.severino@student.unisi.it Two recent legal developments in Latin…
What’s New: Week of September 7What's New in Public Law
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— Dhruv Singhal, Editor-in-Chief, Comparative Constitutional Law and Administrative Law Journal, National Law University, Jodhpur. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect…
Femicide and the Greek Constitution: Gender Equality in a New Constitutional MomentDevelopments
Femicide and the Greek Constitution: Gender Equality in a New Constitutional Moment
--Christina M. Akrivopoulou, Assistant Professor of Human Rights Protection Institutions and Policies, Hellenic Open University Greece is entering a new…
The Presidency Bottleneck: A Cognitive Case for Executive PluralityDevelopments
The Presidency Bottleneck: A Cognitive Case for Executive Plurality
--Maksym Mykhailenko, independent researcher, Dresden, Germany Where substantial executive authority is concentrated in a single officeholder, the modern presidency rests…
‘In the Name of (Executive) Constitutionalism’: A Tale of Two Invincible ExecutivesColumn
‘In the Name of (Executive) Constitutionalism’: A Tale of Two Invincible Executives
--Ming-Sung Kuo, Reader in Law at the University of Warwick School of Law; Senior Emile Noël Fellow, The Jean Monnet…
The Unitary Executive Theory after Slaughter: A Comparative Hispanic PerspectiveDevelopments
The Unitary Executive Theory after Slaughter: A Comparative Hispanic Perspective
--José Ignacio Hernández, Visiting Scholar, Boston College Law School; Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law, American University Introduction The majority…
What’s New: August 31What's New in Public Law
What’s New: August 31
— Miracle Okoth Okumu Mudeyi, LL.B. (Hons), University of Nairobi; Master of Laws Candidate at Yale Law School; Advocate of…
The Informal Constitution of Access: What a Greek Minister’s Defense of Political Favors Reveals About Equal CitizenshipDevelopments
The Informal Constitution of Access: What a Greek Minister’s Defense of Political Favors Reveals About Equal Citizenship
--Joanna Demopoulou, PhD in International Affairs and former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) On…
The European Reception of ILC Outputs: Non-Treaty Law in Domestic Courts Developments
The European Reception of ILC Outputs: Non-Treaty Law in Domestic Courts
--Dr. Muhammad Abbas Mohsin, Diplomatic Advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ph.D. in Public Law The United Nations…
Romania’s Judiciary in CrisisDevelopments
Romania’s Judiciary in Crisis
─Radu Cornea, independent researcher; LLB University of Groningen, LLM Maastricht University Romania’s highest courts have been scathingly rebuked in the…
Hearing the Heartbeat: How Informed Consent Can Become a Tool of Rights RetrenchmentDevelopments
Hearing the Heartbeat: How Informed Consent Can Become a Tool of Rights Retrenchment
--Benjamín Alemparte, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Chile On 7 July 2026, a group of right-wing Chilean legislators…
Substantive Equality, Administrative Classification, and Intersex Legal Recognition in ZimbabweDevelopments
Substantive Equality, Administrative Classification, and Intersex Legal Recognition in Zimbabwe
--Dorcas T. Chitiyo, PhD, University of South Africa (UNISA) On 05 August 2026, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary…
Not the Decision but the Machinery: Is the ECtHR Developing a New Mode of Review?Developments
Not the Decision but the Machinery: Is the ECtHR Developing a New Mode of Review?
--Engin Firat, PhD Candidate, The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London The European Court of Human Rights…
What’s New: Week of August 24What's New in Public Law
What’s New: Week of August 24
— Erick Guapizaca Jiménez, incoming Judicial Fellow, International Court of Justice In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading…
Beyond Institutional Design: Constituent Power and Legitimacy in Divided SocietiesDevelopments
Beyond Institutional Design: Constituent Power and Legitimacy in Divided Societies
--Dr. Mehmet Sercan Ercan, independent researcher focusing on constitutional theory and comparative constitutional law Constitution-making in deeply divided societies asks…
When Protest Becomes a Public-Order Problem: India’s Shrinking Space for DissentDevelopments
When Protest Becomes a Public-Order Problem: India’s Shrinking Space for Dissent
--Susen Kamble, Constitutional Law Researcher; LLM graduate in Constitutional & Administrative Law, National Law Institute University, Bhopal; research focused on…
Academics are the Invisible Artist of Democracy: Rethinking Their Roles in IndonesiaDevelopments
Academics are the Invisible Artist of Democracy: Rethinking Their Roles in Indonesia
--Bernard Nicholas Singarimbun, doctoral researcher, University of Hamburg Academic work is, by its nature, invisible. Unlike many professions whose outputs…
Repartijas and Judicial Independence in PeruDevelopments
Repartijas and Judicial Independence in Peru
--Fernando J. Loayza-Jordán, Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law; Paolo Barrero-Lira, Associate Researcher, Grupo de…
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