This is the fifth essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin, as part of the project 'Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil,' which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). For more information about Feminist Constitutionalism, please contact Melina...

–Neslihan Çetin, PhD Candidate (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) 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 law blogosphere. To submit relevant developments...

This is the fourth essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil’, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). For more information about Feminist Constitutionalism, please email Melina...

—Juan Sebastián López, researcher in international human rights law and constitutional law, J.D. Universidad Externado de Colombia. 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...

--Felicia Caponigri and Johanna Fröhlich, Co-Directors of Chapter Development, The International Society of Public Law The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) has received a proposal from Chien-Chih Lin & Yi-Li Lee to create a Taiwanese chapter of ICON-S. Please write to icons.chapterdevelopment@gmail.com and to Chien-Chih Lin at chienchihlin@gate.sinica.edu.tw if you are a public law...

--Claudia Marchese, Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Sassari (Italy) Developments in Constitutional Courts South Africa’s electoral commission appealed to the Constitutional Court to rule on whether former President Jacob Zuma can stand as a candidate in general elections in May considering that in 2021 he was convicted and sentenced to...

Editorial: In this issue; Honoring our peer reviewers; The human ChatGPT—The use and abuse of research assistants In this issue In the Letters to the Editors, Zhaoxin Jiang replied to Chien-Chih Lin’s article in the I•CON: Debate! published in our volume 21:2 issue and to Ming-Sung Kuo’s Letter to the Editors in volume 21:3. He...

I•CON Volume 22 Issue 1 Table of Contents Letters to the Editors Zhaoxin Jiang, A constitutional court’s survival (by any name) Ming-Sung Kuo, The “constitutional court of China”? Setting the record straight Zhaoxin Jiang, State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court” Editorial: In this issue; The human ChatGPT—The use and abuse of...

--Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor of Law and M. K. Nambyar Chair Professor on Constitutional Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] The Autocrats’ Playbook This is the year of elections. Sixty-four countries, representing over forty-five percent of...

--Miguel Schor, Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center, and the Class of 1977 Distinguished Scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Presidentialism has a comparatively poor democratic track record. In a famous essay entitled “The Perils of Presidentialism”...

--Anubhav Kumar, Advocate & Researcher, Supreme Court of India  In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books, articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere. To submit relevant developments for our weekly...

This is the third essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin, as part of the project 'Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil,' which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). For more information about Feminist Constitutionalism, please contact Melina...

—Seána Glennon, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law In the past decade, the Irish people have voted in favour of a range of liberalising constitutional amendments: from marriage equality to abortion rights to removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. These changes have coincided with the incorporation of citizen deliberation into...

--Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Luxor Elementary Court, Egypt. LLM Leeds Beckett University, UK. --Jose Mario de la Garza-Martins, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Theory, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico 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...

--Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University On March 20th, 2024, the Indonesian Election Commission officially declared that the Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the Presidential Election, which took place on February 14, 2024. The result might not be shocking because Prabowo had maintained a lead in the pre-election survey. Nevertheless, it is still surprising that he...

—Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna. —Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law University of Tuzla and a 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...

This is the second essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil’, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). For more information about Feminist Constitutionalism, please contact Melina...

--Mikołaj Wolanin, Master’s student, University of Warsaw (Poland) 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 law blogosphere. To submit relevant developments...

New Scholarship Showcase is a brand new format promoted by the ICON-S Committee on “New Directions in Scholarship”. We will periodically invite a public law scholar to discuss his or her newly published book. Our second edition of this new format features Mathew John, Professor and Executive Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence, Jindal Global...

--Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, was marked, in France and in Ireland, by two constitutionally significant events with very different outcomes. Both were aimed at ‘celebrating’ Women’s Day by amending...