— Inês Neves, Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Porto (Portugal), Researcher at the Centre for Legal Research (CIJ) - Rita Ferreira Gomes, Law graduate from the Faculty of Law, University of Porto The freedom to conduct a business is a fundamental right that is explicitly enshrined in several national constitutions around...

—Nicola Abate, Ph.D. candidate in Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona —Recep Orhun Kılıç, PhD Student, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli 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...

The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) has received a proposal from Bertil Emrah Oder to create a Turkish chapter of ICON-S. Please, write to icons.chapterdevelopment@gmail.com and to Bertil Emrah at boder@ku.edu.tr if you are a public law scholar in Turkey or from Turkey, and would like to participate in the formation of this proposed...

–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...

--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...

The Committee on “New Directions in Scholarship” of the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) facilitates the dissemination of works that have advanced the knowledge of Public Law and launches inclusive initiatives in public law research and methodology. Following the success of ICON·S Live, the Committee is already organizing a series of monthly virtual events...

--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 articles, and...

--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...

---Leigha Crout, Rule of Law Fellow at Stanford Law School & PhD Candidate at King’s College London ---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...

—Sebastian Abad Jara, LLM in International Law, University of Cambridge; Daniel Pereira Campos, PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian law on indigenous lands is perhaps one the most significant examples of a detachment between “law in books” and “law in action”, with a substantial impact on the rights of indigenous peoples....

—Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard Law School In an important, newly issued opinion, T-237/2023, the Colombian Constitutional Court (the Court) addresses priority-setting in the context of triage during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The Court has issued some of the most progressive jurisprudence regarding the right to health in the world. Beginning in the early 1990’s when health...

—Fereniki Panagopoulou, Assistant Professor at Panteion University Ι. Introduction The Greek legislature recently introduced legislation to facilitate the voting of expatriates in Greece, allowing, in this instance, voting for all expatriates registered in the electoral rolls. The previous laws had stringent conditions that made it challenging for expatriates to exercise their voting rights. Voting requires...

—Paolo Sandro, University of Leeds Introduction Last month Netanyahu’s government, despite the unprecedented mass demonstrations taking place on a weekly basis across Israel for months now, has passed what is likely to be only the first step of their proposed overhaul of the Israeli judicial system. Already taken on its own, this first reform is...

--Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University On August 13, 2023, Indonesia celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the country’s Constitutional Court. When the Court was initially established twenty years ago, it was a kind of joke that later turned out to be a serious affair.[1] The Court was originally intended to be a court of...

—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.] Assisted dying regimes are increasingly being introduced globally. When the democratic legislature fails to take the initiative, courts have stepped in and pushed for legal reform claiming that this is an issue of...

–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Lawyer and Master’s student in Constitutional Law at the University of Coimbra, Portugal 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...

—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...

--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...

--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...

—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...