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ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents

Published: 12 June, 2021

Volume 19 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Afterword: Neil Walker and his Critics Fleur Johns, The sovereignty deficit: Afterword to the Foreword by Neil Walker George Duke, Sovereignty’s rationale: Afterword to the Foreword by Neil Walker Nicole Roughan, Surplus or surrender? Afterword to the Foreword by Neil Walker Lucia Rubinelli, Democracy and sovereignty: Afterword...

ICON: Editors’ Choice of Books 2020

Published: 8 June, 2021

As is now our custom, our Book Review Editor, Michaela Hailbronner, invited the I•CON Board members to reflect on the books that had a significant impact on them during the past year. Their contributions, posted on I•CONnect, were read with interest and curiosity. In the following pieces Marian Ahumada, Richard Albert, Tom Ginsburg, and Wojciech...

ICON Volume 18, Issue 4: Editorial

Published: 5 May, 2021

We invited Ruth Rubio-Marín, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain, to write a Guest Editorial. Following the Editorial, an earlier interview by Ruth Rubio-Marín with Justice Ruth Ginsburg which first appeared in vol. 15:3 of the journal is reprinted. Constitutional law and women’s citizenship: A retrospective—In memoriam Ruth Bader Ginsburg As...

ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents

Published: 4 May, 2021

Volume 18 Issue 4 Table of Contents Editorial Honor Roll of Reviewers 2020 I•CONIC Interview Ruth Rubio-Marín, “Notorious RBG”: A conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Articles Samuel Issacharoff, The corruption of popular sovereignty Gabrielle Appleby and Anna Olijnyk, Constitutional norms: practice and perceptions Alan Greene, Parliamentary sovereignty and the locus...

Message from the Editors of ICON and EJIL

Published: 28 April, 2021

A great deal of the production process of ICON and EJIL takes place in India. We are all aware of the enormity of the COVID challenge facing India and its painful human cost. We express our solidarity with the members of the journal production teams in India. We also trust that our authors and readers will accept...

ICON Volume 18, Issue 3: Editorial

Published: 14 February, 2021

Guest Editorial: Systemic racism and creative emotion—back to basics; Peer review—Institutional hypocrisy and author ambivalence; A modest proposal on zoom teaching; In this issue We invited Iyiola Solanke, Professor of EU Law and Social Justice at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, to write a Guest Editorial. Systemic racism and creative emotion—back to basics There...

ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents

Published: 13 February, 2021

Volume 18 Issue 3 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Adiel Zimran, The theological value of autonomy Symposium: From Promise to Retrenchment? On the Changing Landscape of Israeli Constitutionalism Adam Shinar, Barak Medina, and Gila Stopler, From promise to retrenchment: On the changing landscape of Israeli constitutionalism Ariel L. Bendor, The Israeli judiciary-centered constitutionalism Alon Harel...

Special Announcement: ICONnect Columnists for 2021

Published: 7 January, 2021

--David Landau, Florida State University College of Law The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2021: Mara Malagodi, Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Armi Bayot, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo. As always, we are confident that they will provide a diverse and fascinating set of voices for our readers, representing...

Announcement: Roundtable on the Brexit Deal

Published: 3 January, 2021

The Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice in collaboration with EJIL and ICON cordially invites you to attend "The Brexit Deal: A Less Perfect Union or a More Flexible Compact? Assessing the Draft EU UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement" - A Roundtable (by Zoom) on January 14, 2021 at 9.30-11.30 EST; 14.30-16.30 GMT; 15.30-17.30 CET:   The product of tumultuous political...

10 Good Reads

Published: 15 December, 2020

--J. H. H. Weiler, New York University School of Law; Co-Editor-in-Chief, I·CON This has been an unusual year (and that must be the euphemism of the year). I have not been to my office since February and have had no access to the pile of new books and the even greater pile of older books waiting...

ICON Editorial – A Modest Proposal on Zoom Teaching

Published: 13 October, 2020

--J.H.H. Weiler, NYU School of Law; Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) No preliminaries are necessary here. One result of Covid-19 has been a shift to online teaching by Zoom (or similar platforms). In some law faculties all teaching is online. In most faculties most teaching is online with some hybrid teaching, and in...

Special Announcement: Welcome to IberICONect from the ICONnect Team!

Published: 1 October, 2020

--Richard Albert, The University of Texas at Austin, Antonia Baraggia, University of Milan, Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago, David Landau, Florida State University, and Jaclyn Neo, National University of Singapore We are delighted to welcome the IberICONnect blog to the world. Like ICONnect, IberICONnect advances the missions of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON)...

ICON Volume 18, Issue 2: Editorial

Published: 2 August, 2020

Orbán and the self-asphyxiation of democracy; Publishers, academics and the battles over copyright and your rights, Part I; Festschrift? ‘That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow! That is the whole Torah; the rest is interpretation’ (from the Elder Hillel in Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a); In this issue Orbán and the...

ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents

Published: 2 August, 2020

Volume 18 Issue 2 Table of Contents Editorial ICON·S Reflections Wojciech Sadurski, Constitutional democracy in the time of elected authoritarians Luis Roberto Barroso, Technological revolution, democratic recession and climate change: The limits of law in a changing world I·CON Foreword Neil Walker, The sovereignty surplus Reflections on Gender and Public Law: Eight Views Christopher McCrudden,...

Announcement: ICON-S Forum on Gender and Public Law, and Webinar on the Gendered Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Law Scholarship, July 22

Published: 20 July, 2020

The Gendered Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Public Law Scholarship, Perspectives and Values – Webinar MEETING DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has inflicted serious damage on the health, social and economic well-being of citizens worldwide. But that damage has not been evenly distributed: it has affected some countries and regions far more than others, and has had distinctly racialized...

Convocatoria Primer Número en Español: International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON)

Published: 30 May, 2020

El International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) tiene el placer de invitar a la comunidad académica hispanoparlante a enviar artículos originales para ser publicados en el primer número que ICON publicará completamente en español.   ICON busca generar un espacio internacional para la comunidad académica hispanoparlante interesada en el estudio del derecho público, mediante la...

ICON Volume 18, Issue 1: Editorial

Published: 21 May, 2020

COVID-19 and I•CON [The editorial on COVID-19 and I•CON was already run on the ICONnect blog and can be found here.] We invited Marta Cartabia, member of I•CON’s Advisory Board and President of the Italian Constitutional Court, to write a Guest Editorial. Courts’ relations In her seminal book Law’s Relations, which deserves attention for many...

ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents

Published: 19 May, 2020

Volume 18 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Afterword: Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar and their critics Michèle Finck, Constitutional imaginations of the state: Afterword to the Foreword by Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar Jaclyn L. Neo, Space still matters: Toward even more pluralism in public law: Afterword to the Foreword by Ran Hirschl and...

ICON Guest Editorial: Without a New European Patriotism, the Decline of the EU is Inevitable

Published: 3 April, 2020

On 26 March, an utterly divided EU emerged from the European Council dedicated to European measures aimed at managing the severest crisis since 1929, one far worse  than the 2012-2017 crisis. The coronavirus pandemic and the transpiring economic and social crises present Europe with an extraordinary opportunity: to decide to move towards a deeper unity,...

ICON Editorial: COVID-19 and ICON

Published: 26 March, 2020

--Gráinne de Búrca & J.H.H. Weiler, Co-Editors-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law We are pulled in opposite directions in the face of a global upending of normal life. At one level it is reassuring, even if hunkered down at home, as is our editorial team in six different countries, to continue serenely with our normal...