—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...

--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...

—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...

--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...

--Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, Research Assistant, Institut Michel Villey, Panthéon-Assas University 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...

--Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Master in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra – Portugal. Lawyer. 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...

--Surbhi Karwa, PhD Candidate, UNSW-Sydney 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 for our weekly...

--Nicola Abate, Ph.D. candidate in Law and Teaching Assistant at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). 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...

--Sonder Li, GDL Candidate, City University of London 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...

International Conference on‘Unwritten Constitutionalism and Public Law in Central and Eastern Europe’Faculty of Law, ‘Lucian Blaga’ University of SibiuSibiu, Romania12 April 2024Convened by:David Kosar, Bianca Selejan-Gutan, and Silvia Suteu The Central and Eastern European Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) is pleased to invite submissions to its 2024 annual conference taking place...

—Juan Sebastián López, researcher in international human rights law and constitutional law, former student at Universidad Externado de Colombia, and staff member of the International Society of Public Law. 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...

--Ketan Gupta, N.Y.U. School of Law The unipolar nature of sports governance, wherein the gameplay as well as the economics of a sport are shaped by one dominant sport federation, stretches across geographies and across sports such as golf, tennis, and football. Even though breakaway leagues are not a recent phenomenon, incumbent sports governing bodies...

--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...