The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2026: Adam Bodnar, Ming-Sung Kuo, Victoria Miyandazi, and Verónica Undurraga. We are certain that they will provide a diverse and fascinating set of voices for our readers, representing a range of regional and substantive areas of focus.
We would also like to give thanks and express appreciation for our outgoing 2025 columnists — Goran Selanec, Alexandra Flynn, Yoomin Won, and Jorge González-Jácome. We are deeply grateful to each of these scholars for agreeing to serve as columnists last year, and for adding so much useful content to the blog.
The format of the columns is the same as in prior years. The goal is to provide ICONnect with regular contributors who have a distinctive voice and unique perspective on public law. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts. Each columnist will produce one column roughly every two months.
Although we expect that many of our readers already know their work, we append brief bios for each of our new columnists below. Please join us in welcoming them to ICONnect!
Adam Bodnar is a Professor of Law at SWPS University in Warsaw. He is also a Senator of the Republic of Poland, elected in October 2023, and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He previously served as Minister of Justice (December 2023–July 2025) and as Ombudsman of Poland (2015–2021). He is a graduate of the University of Warsaw and the Central European University in Budapest, where he earned an LL.M. in Comparative Constitutional Law. He is the author of numerous publications on EU citizenship, anti-discrimination law, the rule of law, surveillance powers, international human rights protection, and the enforcement of judgments of international tribunals.
Dr Ming-Sung Kuo is a reader in law at University of Warwick (UK). He writes extensively on issues relating to comparative constitutional law, constitutional theory, and public international law. His scholarship has appeared in leading journals, including International Journal of Constitutional Law, European Journal of International Law, and Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. He is awarded the 2025 Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Constitutional Studies by The Constitutional Studies Program at The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. His article ‘Against Instantaneous Democracy’ (2019) is the winner of the 2020 I·CON Best Paper Prize. He holds an LLB and an LLM from National Taiwan University and earns an LLM and a JSD from Yale Law School.
Victoria Miyandazi (DPhil, MPhil, BCL (Oxon), LLB (KU)) is an Assistant Professor in Public Law at the University of Nottingham (UK). Prior to this, she was the Knight Fellow in Legal and Constitutional Research at the University of St Andrews (Scotland, UK) and previously lectured at the University of Embu (Kenya). She has also served as a Researcher and Editor at the Oxford Human Rights Hub, and as a Legal Researcher at the Kenyan Judiciary Working Committee on Election Preparations (now the Judiciary Committee on Elections). A practising Advocate of the High Court of Kenya, she worked at Okubasu, Munene & Kazungu Advocates LLP, specialising in constitutional and human rights litigation. Victoria teaches and writes in the areas of equality law, constitutional law, administrative law, human rights, electoral law, property law, public international law, and comparative law. She is the author ofEquality in Kenya’s 2010 Constitution: Understanding the Competing and Interrelated Conceptions(Hart Publishing, 2021), which was cited by the Supreme Court of Kenya in a 2025 landmark decision affirming the equal inheritance rights of children born out of wedlock to Muslim parents (SC Petition No. E035 of 2023). She is an inaugural member of the UK Young Academy and serves on the UK & Ireland Academies Human Rights Committee (Academic Freedom). In 2025, she was named one ofThe Africa Report’s‘10 African Scholars to Watch’.
Verónica Undurraga is a professor at the Adolfo Ibáñez University Law School in Chile. Her publications cover topics including equality, gender stereotypes, abortion, the principle of proportionality, constitutional processes, and gender constitutionalism in Latin America, among others. She has been involved in landmark cases on women’s rights in Chile and before the Inter-American Human Rights System. She also served as chair of the Commission of Experts during Chile’s 2023 constitutional process. She is a member of the Red Alas Network and SELA Latin American academic networks, and of the public policy think tank Espacio Público, as well as other civil society organizations in Chile.