Editorial: Guest Editorial: Liberal constitutionalism and postcolonialism in the South and beyond:  On liberalism as an open source and the insights of decolonial critiques; On my way out – Advice to young scholars VII: Taking exams seriously (Part 1); In this issue We invited Philipp Dann, Professor of Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt University,...

[Editor's Note: For the benefit of ICONnect readers, the Table of Contents to ICON's new issue provides hyperlinks to the articles and their abstracts online.] Volume 20 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Editorial Reflection Gráinne de Búrca, Poland and Hungary’s EU membership: On not confronting authoritarian governments Afterword: Karen J. Alter and Her Critics...

--Emmett Macfarlane, University of Waterloo [Editor's Note: This is a rejoinder by Emmett Macfarlane to two replies to his recent ICON article, Judicial Amendment of the Constitution.] I am grateful that my article, Judicial Amendment of the Constitution, has received two thoughtful and productive responses by such esteemed scholars. Both responses seek to interrogate and...

Editorial: Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux); 10 good reads; I•CON Thematic Reading Lists; Behind the scenes—Our Managing Editor; In this Issue Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux) [J.H.H. Weiler’s Editorial was previously published on the ICONnect blog at the following link.] 10 good reads [J.H.H. Weiler’s list of...

Volume 19 Issue 5 Table of Contents Editorial: Germany v Italy: Jurisdictional Immunities—Redux (and Redux and Redux); 10 good reads; I•CON Thematic Reading Lists; Behind the scenes—Our Managing Editor; In this Issue Honor Roll of Reviewers 2021 Articles Tom Ginsburg and Mila Versteeg, The bound executive: Emergency powers during the pandemic Ming-Sung Kuo, Whither judicial...

--David Landau, Florida State University College of Law The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2022, whose work has already started appearing on the blog: Mariana Velasco-Rivera, Maartje De Visser, Shamshad Pasarlay, and Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco. We are certain that they will provide a diverse and...

—J. H. H. Weiler, New York University School of Law; Co-Editor-in-Chief, I·CON It has not been an easy task to compose this year’s list—not because of a dearth of good reads, but quite the opposite—embarras de richesses. And two of the books actually go back to 2020 but given that I read them late in the...

Xin Dai* and Yun-chien Chang** [Editor's Note: this is a rejoinder, from the latest issue of ICON, by Xin Dai and Yun-chien Chang to two replies to their article, The Limited Usefulness of the Proportionality Principle.] We appreciate the two insightful replies authored by Professor Anne Peters and Professors Cristóbal Caviedes and Francisco J. Urbina....

--David McGrogan* [Editor's Note: this is a rejoinder, from the latest issue of ICON, by David McGrogan to a reply to his article, The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the Governmentalization of Global Human Rights Governance.] The latest issue of ICON contains a Reply by Maxime St-Hilaire to my 2018 article,...

[Editor's Note: We are reprinting here the two letters to the editor in ICON's latest issue, Volume 19, Issue 3.] Letters to the Editors The population and the individual Dear Editors, I was very pleased to read Maxime St.-Hilaire’s Reply to my 2018 article, “The Population and the Individual: The Human Rights Audit as the...

Editorial: I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español; Brexit, the Irish Protocol and the “Versailles Effect”; Cancelling Carl Schmitt?; Changes in the masthead; In this issue I•CON in Spanish—I•CON en Español I•CON has no “nationality.” It is unlike, say, the Ruritanian Journal of Public Law. It attempts to cater for an international readership and, although we regularly...

—J.H.H. Weiler, co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law [Editors’ Note: This piece will be published in the next edition of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) as part of the Editorial.] Will we ever see closure to this saga at the center of which one finds the somewhat controversial decision of the International Court...

Volume 19 Issue 3 Table of Contents Letters to the Editors The population and the individual, David McGrogan Unequal impact, Stephen F. Ross Editorial I•CON: Foreword! Karen J. Alter, From colonial to multilateral international law: A global capitalism and law investigation This Foreword integrates international law, international relations, and global history scholarship to understand two...

[Editor's Note: This is from the forthcoming editorial in volume 19, issue 3 of ICON] --J.H.H. Weiler, N.Y.U. School of Law; ICON, Co-Editor-in-Chief What does the Treaty of Versailles have to do with Brexit, you may be asking yourself? Quite a lot, I would like to suggest. But a preliminary comment is necessary. In the...

Tras el éxito de la convocatoria al primer número en español, El International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) tiene el agrado de anunciar que el primer número en español se publicará en el volumen 19, número 4, de este año. Pronto tendremos más noticias sobre la publicación de este número. Tenemos el placer de invitar...

--J.H.H. Weiler, co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law [Editors’ Note: This piece will be published in the next edition of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) as part of the editorial] Sooner or later, I have been telling myself, we, too, editors of learned journals and the like will face this issue, which has...

Editorial: The unequal impact of the pandemic on scholars with care responsibilities: What can journals (and others) do?; Guest Editorial: Constitutional innovations: Tackling incumbency advantage/abuse; In this issue The unequal impact of the pandemic on scholars with care responsibilities: What can journals (and others) do? COVID-19 has been devastating in all sorts of ways for...

Volume 19 Issue 2 Table of Contents Editorial I•CON: Debate! Gila Stopler, The personal is political: The feminist critique of liberalism and the challenge of right-wing populism Marcela Prieto Rudolphy, Right-wing populism, the reasonable, and the limits of ideal theory: A reply to Gila Stopler Frank Michelman, The bind of tolerance and a call to...

We invited Marcela Prieto and Sergio Verdugo, I•CON’s Associate Editors, to write a Guest Editorial. Understanding Chile’s constitution-making procedure* For good or bad, Latin America has seen several constitution-making processes in the past decades, including the cases of Brazil (1988), Colombia (1991), Perú (1993), Ecuador (1998 and again in 2008), Venezuela (1999), and Bolivia (2009)....

We are very pleased to announce the winner of the 2021 I•CON Prize for the most outstanding article published in volume 18 of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. This year the I•CON Editors in Chief in consultation with the Advisory Board have awarded the Prize to Tamar Hostovsky Brandes, for her article, "The Diminishing Status of International Law in the Decisions of the...