–David Landau and Maartje De Visser
We are thrilled to announce the relaunch of ICONnect as the blog of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) – with a refreshed design, and ready to bring you even more inspiring constitutional content. We hope that the new look and feel as well as a steady stream of new posts will encourage regular readership of the contributions featured on the Blog. On that note, our readers can once again subscribe to receive new content by email. To subscribe, see the prominent “subscribe to our newsletter” link on our homepage and every page of our website.
The team responsible for ICONnect has undergone some changes too. We are delighted to welcome Mateo Merchán Duque, Raeesa Vakil, Ugochukwu Ezeh, Tais Penteado, Ewa Karolina Garbarz, Gustavo Buss, and Paulina Magdalena Milewska as Associate Editors. All are passionate constitutional scholars and their collective research interests span many contemporary topics and regions in our field. A full overview of the bios of the team can be found here.
We would also like to express our sincere appreciation for those who helped us so much with this transition – Joseph Weiler, for generously finding funding for the project, Amal Sethi, for helping us shepherd it through, the team at Cubicle Ninjas, for their hard work in the redesign, Irene Parra Prieto, for helping set up the social media and protocols that will guide the blog, and Michaela Hailbronner, Sergio Verdugo, and Erin Delaney, the co-Presidents and Secretary-General of ICON-S, for all of their support. We further thank Oxford University Press and its team for having generously hosted the blog for the past several years.
In addition, we want to express our deep appreciation to our editors emeriti, including Richard Albert and Tom Ginsburg (both founding editors of the blog since its establishment in 2012), as well as Jaclyn Neo and Antonia Baraggia. All have been instrumental in making this a leading English-language blog for all matters constitutional, and we thank them for their immense efforts in this regard. Their vision, ideas and commitment have made ICONnect an invaluable resource for the comparative constitutional community and the Blog will build on the foundations that they have laid going forward. We hope all of our editors emeriti, current and future, will remain heavily involved in the blog as contributors and organizers.
On that note, the Blog will continue with its well-known regular features: the ‘What’s New in Public Law’ weekly update (a creation of founding editor Richard Albert) as well as regular entries by our columnists, alongside individual posts and symposia that discuss constitutional developments or share insights on both current or classic constitutional topics. We also will continue to serve as a resource to disseminate, discuss, and review articles from the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON), as well as partnering with our sister blog, IBerICONnect, the Spanish and Portuguese-language blog of ICON-S.
We are pleased to announce that the Blog will become a regular platform for disseminating knowledge gathered through events and discussions of the Chapters and Interest Groups of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), in an effort to contribute to cultivating conversations across countries, regions and sub-fields. There will also soon be a new landing page on the Blog website where you can find all the podcasts featuring interviews with authors of recently published books, courtesy of the work carried out by the New Directions for Scholarship Committee.
ICONnect’s success hinges on your support, both as readers and as contributors. As such, we warmly invite you to consider submitting a post to the Blog. Proposed entries can address any question or event in the realm of constitutional law broadly understood, pitched in a way that speaks to a global audience. We would also love to hear from you if you have ideas for new content as part of our continuous endeavor to strengthen and improve the experience at the Blog.
We look forward to engaging with you and thank you for being here. We wish you happy reading.