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What’s New in Public Law
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–Marieta Safta, Professor Phd, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania –Niels Graaf, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands 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…
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Constitutional Court Appointments and Acting Presidents in South Korea: The Messy Aftermath of the Yoon Impeachment
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—Yoomin Won, Associate Professor, Seoul National University [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On June 3, 2025, South Korea elected a new president of the republic. Lee Jae-myung is now elected from the presidential election that took place following the impeachment decision of the…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Alan Mauricio Jiménez Díaz, PhD. Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. —Sumit Kumar Ganguly, Visiting Faculty, Amity University, Kolkata, India. 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…
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Call for papers: International Conference — Beyond the State. New Perspectives on the Conceptual Relationships Between Constitution and Society
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Call for papersInternational ConferenceBeyond the State. New Perspectives on the Conceptual Relationships Between Constitution and Society 29ᵗʰ and 30ᵗʰ January 2026 – Paris Constitutionalism, understood as a means of establishing a political sphere to make it autonomous from society, is seen as having built the opposition between the State and society. At the same time,…
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What’s New in Public Law
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– Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk (Supreme Court of India) and Kushagr Bakshi, SJD Candidate (University of Michigan) 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…
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Clarifying Gubernatorial Powers in the Legislative Process: The Indian Supreme Court’s Judgment in State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu
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–John Simte, lawyer and legal researcher based in New Delhi On 08 April 2025, the Indian Supreme Court delivered its judgment in State of Tamil Nadu v. Governor of Tamil Nadu, clarifying the constitutional limits of the Governor’s role under Articles 200 and 201 of the Constitution. The case arose from a prolonged standoff between…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, India —Olumide Opeyemi Toyinbo, Postgraduate Student, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria 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…
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Commodifying Nationality, Undermining Democracy
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—Goran Selanec, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] At the end of April, the Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered a highly anticipated ruling in the case C-181/23 Commission v Malta.[1] The case concerned the possibility of issuing the so-called “golden…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Erick Guapizaca Jiménez, SJD Candidate, University of Michigan Law School. —Rajesh Ranjan, Lawyer, Researcher & former Samta (Equity) fellow based in India. 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
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–Gonen Ilan and Sarthak Sahoo 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. To submit relevant developments for our weekly…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Mikołaj Wolanin, Master’s student, University of Warsaw (Poland) 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. To submit relevant developments…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna 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. To submit…
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Bangladesh’s Apolitical Constitution-making Initiative: Silver Lining or Slippery Slope?
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—Kawser Ahmed, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor, Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals The Long and the Short On 05 August 2024, in the face of a massive Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (AdSM) protesting the discriminatory quota system in government jobs – which later escalated into demands for her resignation – the then…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra 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…
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The ‘Intermestic’ Transitional Constitution of South Sudan
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— Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School Every constitution drafted since at least the 18th century has this feature. What is it? If you said ‘constitutional borrowing’, give yourself a pat on the back! South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution is no exception in this respect. Constitutional borrowing is evidenced in the Transitional Constitution…
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South Korean Constitutional Court Upholds Impeachment of President Yoon for Abusing Emergency Power
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—Yoomin Won, Seoul National University School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On April 4, 2025, South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol in a unanimous decision. This ruling marks a pivotal moment in the country’s democratic…
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How to Judge a Judge: Balancing Accountability, Independence and Fairness
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–Ria Mohammed-Davidson, LLB (Hons), LEC (Hons), LLM (Harvard), Chambers of Mr. Rolston F. Nelson, S.C. In The Judicial and Legal Service Commission v Marcia Ayers-Caesar, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (‘JCPC’) was confronted with the eight-year constitutional controversy surrounding the elevation of the Chief Magistrate to the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law University of Tuzla and a member of the Constitutional Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include a selection of links to…
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Rule of Law or Rule of Trump? How the United States is Defining Canada’s Election
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—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Associate Professor and Director, Housing Research Collaborative; Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] These days, Canadian media is entirely consumed with President Trump’s latest dramas, from tariffs to the unilateral…
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