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ICON Volume 23, Issue 1: Table of Contents
I•CON Volume 23 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Making gender equality visible in judicial selections at the European Court of Justice Honoring our peer reviewers I•CON Foreword Nehal Bhuta, Social rights and the origins of the social constitution: From collective natural rights to the social state Articles Holning Lau,…
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ICON Volume 23, Issue 1: Editorial
In this issue; Guest editorial: Making gender equality visible in judicial selections at the European Court of Justice In this issue We begin this issue with a Guest Editorial by Laure Clement-Wilz and Fernanda Nicola, who invite reflection on the criteria for judicial selection at the European Court of Justice.
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EU Fundamental Rights at a Crossroads: Reflections on the Charter’s 25th Anniversary
—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.] This year the EU legal order marks an important milestone: The Charter of Fundamental Rights marks its 25th anniversary.
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What’s New in Public Law
—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
–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.
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How Judicial Independence is Being Undone in the Maldives
—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.
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What’s New in Public Law
–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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The Gandhian Constitution Was Never an Alternative
—Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, VMRF (DU) In his recent book The Colonial Constitution, Arghya Sengupta argues that the Indian Constitution is a colonial document.[1] He arrives at this conclusion by arguing: first, the framers adopted an Indianized version of the Government of India Act 1935; second, the Constitution…
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What’s New in Public Law
–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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Wildfires, Legal Geography, and the Constitution
—Maria Tzanakopoulou, Senior lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law Amid record temperatures across Europe, the continent is once again confronted by multiple wildfire fronts. Several deaths have been reported while thousands have been evacuated. The EU has triggered its Civil Protection Mechanism to offer emergency assistance, as domestic civil protection services struggle to cope.
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A Convenient Emergency: Perilous Times for Judicial Independence in Ecuador
—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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Between Imposition and Consensus: On the Sensibilities of Constitutionalism
—Jorge González-Jacome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On June 7, 2025, Colombians seemed to relive a nightmare they had experienced in the late 1980s.
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