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  • Abortion and Selective Conscientious Objection

    —Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] Universal conscientious objection in the health sector challenges the provision of legally guaranteed services, thus possibly jeopardizing the right to health of affected persons.

  • The Legislative Imposition of Positive Obligations to Fulfil the Right to Housing: The Compulsory Lease of Vacant Dwellings in Portugal

    —Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] Facing increasing social contestation due to the escalating inflationary pressure and the detrimental consequences that several years of austerity and budgetary restrictions have produced on the welfare state, the Portuguese Government presented an…

  • A Constitutional Crisis in Portugal: The Deadlock at the Constitutional Court

    —Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] The politicization of judicial appointments is one of the most common threats to the rule of law nowadays. Usually, this phenomenon originated in the political branches, as the examples of Poland, Hungary, and,…

  • Judicial Activism Against Austerity in Portugal

    –Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro, Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon* [Editors’ note: below is an essay on the current situation in Portugal. We thank Professor Ribeiro for the opportunity to publish this essay in the form of an extended post on the blog.]

  • Toward a New European Abortion Constitutionalism?

    —Ruth Rubio Marin, European University Institute Modern constitutionalism, born at the end of the 18th century with the French and American Revolutions, is a historically grounded venture. At the time, women did not enjoy civil equality, their freedom being largely dependent on their marital status, nor political citizenship–female enfranchisement not becoming a widespread reality until…