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What’s New in Public Law
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—Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Sohag Elementary Court, Egypt; LLM Leeds Beckett University, UK. 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
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–Dhruv Singhal, B.A. LL.B. (Hons) Candidate at National Law University, Jodhpur, India —Miracle Okoth Okumu Mudeyi, LL.B. (Hons) University of Nairobi, Advocate Trainee, Kenya School of Law, Kenya 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,…
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How Judicial Independence is Being Undone in the Maldives
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—Shamsul Falaah, Advocate (Maldives) and independent legal scholar Introduction Although almost every government since the current Constitution has influenced, or at least tried to influence, the judiciary, this year has been one of the worst. Since the beginning of the year, there has been constant concern about the government’s growing influence over judicial independence. Unpacking…
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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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What’s New in Public Law
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–Alan Mauricio Jiménez Díaz, PhD. Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain –Sumit Kumar Ganguly, Assistant Professor, SGT University, Gurugram, 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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A Convenient Emergency: Perilous Times for Judicial Independence in Ecuador
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—Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, X: @PatySValarezo The notion of the judiciary’s inherent weakness, as proposed in The Federalist Papers number 78, along with Tsebelis’s idea (Tsebellis 2002) of judges as veto players ultimately absorbed by other political actors, can now be questioned in light of the many judicial decisions with significant…
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What’s New in Public Law
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–Kushagr Bakshi, SJD Candidate (University of Michigan) and Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk (Supreme Court of 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 blog posts from…
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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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The Failure of Impeachment in Indonesia: A Comparative View
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–Stefanus Hendrianto, Creighton University School of Law Introduction In the first six months of 2025, the Asian continent has witnessed a wave of impeachments in several nations. On April 4, 2025, President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea was removed from Office by the Constitutional Court, following his impeachment on in December 2024.[1] In the…
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North Korea in South Korean Eyes: Enemy or Reunification Partner?
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—Yoomin Won, Associate Professor, 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.] In December 2023, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un officially announced that the two Koreas are “two hostile states,” effectively renouncing unification. North Korea’s declaration of South Korea…
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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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Legislating in Silence: The Reform of the Brazilian Civil Code and Its Democratic Deficit
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–Anna Claudia Svoboda ,Ph.D. candidate, Pontificial Catholic University of São Paulo Brazil is currently debating the most comprehensive reform of its Civil Code since the current version came into force in 2002. The proposal aims to revise over a thousand provisions and modernize key areas of private law. The draft, already formalized as Bill 4/2025,…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Gonen Ilan, Ph.D Candidate, Bar-Ilan University, Israel —Sarthak Sahoo, Undergraduate Student of Law, Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab 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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Rethinking Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Past and Future: History Education Before the Constitutional Court
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—Karla Žeravčić, Ph.D. Researcher, European University Institute, Department of Law –Kaja Stelmaszewska, LL.M. student, University of Wrocław In January 2025, the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) delivered a decision that struck down elements of the Republika Srpska school curriculum for violating the state Constitution. The ninth-grade history curriculum was found to have glorified war criminals,…
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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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Judicial Independence under Threat in South Sudan
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—Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School In my first post published on 13 April 2025, I discussed the nature of South Sudan’s 2011 Transitional Constitution, calling it a conflation of international template and domestic aspirations. I also discussed the idea of a strong president deeply embedded in that document and how it has…
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Landmark Ruling Issued by the Special Highest Court of Greece: Annulment of Parliamentary Seats without Replacement
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—Fereniki Panagopoulou, Associate Professor, Panteion University I. The decision of the Special Highest Court[1] Acting in its capacity as an electoral court, the Special Highest Court οf Greece[2] recently annulled the election of three specific Members of Parliament from the Spartans party, following objections filed against their official proclamation. The objections were held to be…
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Reimagining Constitutional Equality: Indigenous Governance, Vulnerability, and the Legacy of Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation
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—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia[*] [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] In 2024, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) issued a landmark decision in Dickson v. Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation (Dickson), a case with significant import for the future course…
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