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The Mexican Judicial Reform: An Illustration of a Discrepancy in the Literature
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— Vrishti Shami, Affiliate Research Fellow, Dr. Ambedkar Chair on Constitutional Law and Social Inclusion, NALSAR University, Hyderabad — Osama…
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When Platforms Judge: Delegated Jurisdiction and the Redistribution of Public Authority
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—Sarthak Sahoo, Undergraduate Student of Law, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a…
U.S. Federal and State Nondelegation Doctrines in Comparative PerspectiveDevelopments
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--Vicente F. Benítez R., Constitutional and Comparative Law Professor at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) Former Constitutional Court Justice Luis…
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--Lila García. Adjunct Professor, University of Mar del Plata and LIAS Fellow (2025-2026) Leuphana University; Estefanía Giaccone, PhD Candidate, Assistant…
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--Verónica Undurraga Valdés, professor at the Adolfo Ibáñez University Law School in Chile Anyone who lived in or visited Chile…
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Democracy in a Plastic Regime: Constitutional Resilience and the Yield Point
--André L. Perovano, Undergraduate student, Faculty of Law of the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) It is no secret that,…
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The Veils of Justice and the Aphrodite of Cnidus – Constitutional Adjudication between Ritual and VisibilityDevelopments
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The 2024 I·CONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law: FranceDevelopments
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Social Rights at Stake:The Overlooked Element in Rebuilding the Rule of Law in PolandDevelopments
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‘JurisPesa’: Confronting Corruption in Kenya’s JudiciaryColumn
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--Victoria Miyandazi, Assistant Professor in Public Law, University of Nottingham (UK) On 3 February 2026, my attention was drawn…
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Are you an early-career scholar in public law with ambitions to publish your research on the international stage? Do you…
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