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What’s New in Public Law

Published: 8 January, 2024

--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...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 1 January, 2024

--Amir Cahane, PhD student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem --Carolina Gomide de Araujo, Master’s student, University of São Paulo 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...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 27 December, 2023

--Surbhi Karwa, PhD Candidate, UNSW - Sydney --Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, University Paris Panthéon-Assas, Law clerk at the Administrative Court of Paris 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...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 18 December, 2023

--Leigha Crout, PhD Candidate at King’s College London & Rule of Law Fellow at Stanford Law School --Tina Nicole Nelly Youan, PhD Candidate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Université 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...

Chile’s Constitutional Proposal Represents a More Radical Turn into Neoliberal Constitutional Politics

Published: 12 December, 2023

--Benjamín Alemparte, academic and researcher, University of Chile The recent election in Argentina of Javier Milei as new President has brought a renewed attention to the southern American region in terms of a more radical turn into libertarian economic policies. Milei’s candidature, a Thatcher-lover according to the Financial Times, suggested an ultra-neoliberal “shock” including, among...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 11 December, 2023

--Silvio Roberto Vinceti, Research Fellow (Post-Doc), Department of Law, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 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...

Constitutional Dialogue or Crisis between Congress and the Supreme Court: A New Equilibrium in Brazil’s Coalition Presidentialism?

Published: 11 December, 2023

--Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Associate Professor at the University of Brasília A fascinating discussion is currently underway in Brazil, whose Supreme Court is known as one of the most stable and interventionist in political affairs in Latin America. It has also been...

The 2022 I·CONnect Global Review of Constitutional Law | Report on Mexico

Published: 29 November, 2023

--Alfonso Herrera García, Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City); Irene Spigno, General Director, Inter-American Academy of Human Rights; Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Assistant Professor, University of Silesia in Katowice I. INTRODUCTION On November 7, 2022, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued the judgment in the case of Tzompaxtle Tecpile et al....

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 27 November, 2023

–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 blog...

Call for Papers: ICON-S Conference 2024

Published: 24 November, 2023

CALL FOR PANELS, PAPERS AND INTEREST GROUPS The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence We look forward to welcoming you for our 2024 ICON•S Annual Conference. The conference will feature panels in all areas of public law, and all members of ICON•S are invited to make their submissions in their areas of...

Portugal’s Proposal for a One-Term Limit on Presidents

Published: 21 November, 2023

--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.] Politico recently revealed that the French President expressed frustration with the constitutional clause that prevents him from being reelected for a third term, describing it as “damnable bullshit”. On the other side of...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 13 November, 2023

—Maja Sahadžić, Assistant Professor (Utrecht University), Visiting Professor (University of Antwerp), Senior Research Fellow (Law Institute in B&H), and Affiliated Scholar (CUHK). 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...

Human rights and elections: the case of the “Semilla” party in Guatemala

Published: 9 November, 2023

–Javier Urízar Montes de Oca, International Service for Human Rights It was nothing short of extraordinary: the small opposition party, "Semilla", somehow managed to win the third most seats in Parliament and the presidential election, despite being a relatively unknown progressive party in a fundamentally conservative country. This victory not only surprised the world, but...

The Indonesian Constitutional Court and the Subversion of Democracy: The Court Removes Minimum Age Requirements for the President’s Son

Published: 9 November, 2023

--Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University In the last three years, a major question of speculation in Indonesian politics has been whether President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will stay in power longer after the end of his second term. The first speculation was that Jokowi would try to push for a constitutional amendment allowing him to run...

Call for Applications — Emile Noël Fellowship Applications for New York University School of Law

Published: 7 November, 2023

EMILE NOEL GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW *** NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE 2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the following fellowships: Emile Noël Fellowship Program Deadline: January 15, 2024 The principal objective of the Emile Noël Fellowship program is scholarship and the...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 6 November, 2023

--Irina Criveț, PhD Candidate Public Law, Koç 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 submit relevant developments...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 30 October, 2023

--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...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 23 October, 2023

—Mariana Avelar, PhD student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and visiting researcher at Goethe Universität and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. —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...

Democratic versus Abusive Feminism in India

Published: 18 October, 2023

--Rosalind Dixon, Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Gilbert+Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW Sydney, and Surbhi Karwa, PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney The Indian Parliament recently passed a constitutional amendment bill, the 128th Constitutional Amendment Bill (also called the Women’s Reservation Bill) reserving one-third of the seats in the House of People and...

What’s New in Public Law

Published: 16 October, 2023

— Azeem Amedi, LLM in Legal and Political Theory, University of York — Guy Baldwin, Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester 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,...