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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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Nondelegation Nonrevolution:How the U.S. Supreme Court Chose Statutory Interpretation Over Constitutional Upheaval to Recalibrate the Balance of Powers
—Dr. Lorenz Dopplinger, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University of Vienna, Austria Executive lawmaking forms an integral part of the modern American state. Today, most laws of general applicability are not enacted directly by Congress but by agencies through regulations. In recent years, however, the administrative state has faced mounting (political and legal) pressure.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law – University of Tuzla, 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.
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The Birth of Modern Democracy at a Constitutional Cost: In Search of “Constitutional Democracy” in Nepal
–Sarthak Gupta, Lawyer based in New Delhi; former Judicial Law Clerk, Supreme Court of India; and Researcher, Columbia University[1] On 12th September 2025, a former Nepal Supreme Court Chief Justice, Sushila Karki, was appointed as Nepal’s interim Prime Minister following widespread youth-led protests against corruption (popularly known as the “Gen-Z protests”).
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The Constitutional Foundations of Independent Agencies: A Comparative Perspective Between the U.S. and Spain
–José Ignacio Hernández, Visiting Scholar, Boston College Law School Introduction On May 20, 2025, in the Trump v. Wilcox case, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that may signal the end of independent agencies as they currently exist. This decision is an interlocutory judgment made during ongoing trials that question the president’s ability to…
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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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