Tag: Ran Hirschl
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Comparative Constitutional Law and the Problem of “Context”
—Jorge González Jácome, 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.] In this text, I would like to offer some reflections on the practice of comparative constitutional law, drawing from my experience supervising the work of master’s and…
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Constitutionalism and Multi-Level Governance: Ran Hirschl on Megacities in Constitutional Democracies
—Estefânia Maria de Queiroz Barboza, Federal University of Paraná, and Lucas Henrique Muniz da Conceição, Birkbeck College, University of London On October 30, the Brazilian Chapter of the ICON-S promoted an international conference on the theme of Megacities and Constitutional Law.
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I•CON Debate Review by Brian Ray: Socio-Economic Rights and the Economic Crisis
[Editor’s Note: In this special installment of I•CONnect’s Review Series, Brian Ray offers a critical review of the I•CON debate between David Bilchitz and Xenophon Contiades & Alkmene Fotiadou on socio-economic rights and the economic crisis. The debate appears in the current issue of I•CON, beginning with Bilchitz’s paper here, followed by a reply by Contiades &…