--J. H. H. Weiler, Editorial Director, I·CON; President and Secretary General, European University Institute In a recent Editorial[1] I speculated on the potential transformative effect that the 2014 elections to the European Parliament might have on the democratic fortunes of Europe. I spoke of promise and risk. So now the results are out. How should we...

I.CONVolume 12 Issue 2Table of Contents Editorial Articles Maurice Adams, Disabling constitutionalism. Can the politics of the Belgian Constitution be explained? Greg Taylor, Convention by consensus: Constitutional conventions in Germany Eric C. Ip, The democratic foundations of judicial review under authoritarianism: Theory and evidence from Hong Kong   Symposium: Multipolar Administrative Law Sabino Cassese, Giulio...

I.CON Volume 12 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Ruth Rubio-Marín, The achievement of female suffrage in Europe: On women´s citizenship Günter Frankenberg, Human rights and the belief in a just world Aoife Nolan, Holding non-state actors to account for constitutional economic and social rights violations: Experiences and lessons from South Africa and Ireland...

I.CON’s recent issue opens with two theoretical papers, each employing a comparative methodology in the theorization of constitutional ideas and practices. Focusing on originalist approaches in the United States and Australia, Lael Weis illustrates how a comparative work can advance our debates on constitutional interpretation. Apart from offering an insightful analysis of originalism and its potential justification,...

I.CON  Volume 11 Issue 4  Table of Contents Editorial Articles  Lael K. Weis, What comparativism tells us about originalism Scott Stephenson, Constitutional reengineering: Dialogue’s migration from Canada to Australia Mónica Brito Vieira and Filipe Carreira da Silva, Getting rights right: Explaining social rights constitutionalization in revolutionary Portugal   Reflections on Comparative Public Law: The German...

In our current issue we feature an I·CON: Debate! on strategic reasoning in the Israeli Supreme Court. In a landmark case, the Court decided to set a principle while delaying a concrete ruling until the legislature fleshes out particular legal arrangements in accordance with this principle. In the exchange, Haim Sandberg and Barak Medina suggest different analyses and opposite...

The Arab Fall? Spring is meant to be followed by summer, when buds turn into flowers, when promise and hope turn into reality. This kind of summer seems to have skipped Egypt and the Fall is upon us. The only thing that I find surprising, or perhaps not so surprising, is the hand wringing over...

I.CON  Volume 11 Issue 3  Table of Contents     Editorial Articles  Virgílio Afonso da Silva, Deciding without deliberating Panu Minkkinen, Political constitutionalism vs. political constitutional theory: Law, power and politics     Symposium: Constitutional Transitions in the Middle East Sujit Choudhry, Introduction Mohammad Fadel, Judicial legitimacy and the Legitimacy of Islamic State Law Clark...

The International Journal of Constitutional Law (I.CON) publishes scholarship in the areas of political science, international studies and law & society. We have put together a collection of relevant articles and symposia from the last two years and made them freely available online. For the list of articles and for free access check out our special flier or...

The current issue of I·CON features an exchange between Alec Stone Sweet and Nico Krisch on Krisch’s recent book, Beyond Constitutionalism: The Pluralist Structure of Post-National Law. We are happy to provide free access to this exchange for I·CONnect readers and to invite you to join the discussion on this blog. Click the titles to...

In I·CON's latest issue, Niels Petersen discusses the role of empirical assumptions in constitutional adjudication, and evaluates different strategies for using social science evidence. We have made this article freely available to I·CONnect readers, and we invite you to join the discussion of this important topic. Click on the title to access the full-text paper: Niels Petersen,...

I·CON Volume 11 Issue 2 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Niels Petersen. Avoiding the common-wisdom fallacy: The role of social sciences in constitutional adjudication Benjamin L. Berger. Children of two logics: A way into Canadian constitutional culture Carlos Bernal. Unconstitutional constitutional amendments in the case study of Colombia: An analysis of the justification and meaning...

  In our current issue we feature an I·CON: Debate! on the ECtHR decision in Lautsi v. Italy. We are happy to provide free access to this debate for I·CONnect readers and to invite you to join the debate in this forum.    Click the titles to access the full-text papers: Dimitrios Kyritsis and Stavros...

I have invited Ran Hirschl, who has recently joined our Board of Editors, to write the Editorial for the first issue of 2013. His contribution follows below. From comparative constitutional law to comparative constitutional studies Eighty years ago, John H. Wigmore, author of the seminal Panorama of the World’s Legal Systems, characterized the comparative law journals...

I·CON Volume 11 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Or Bassok and Yoav Dotan, Solving the countermajoritarian difficulty? Asem Khalil, Beyond the written constitution: Constitutional crisis of, and the institutional deadlock in, the Palestinian political system as entrenched in the basic law Adam Shinar and Anna Su, Religious law as foreign law in constitutional...

I have invited my co-Editor-in-Chief, Michel Rosenfeld to write the Editorial for our last issue for 2012. His contribution follows below. Individual rights and the excesses of individualism: Heading back to a Hobbesian state of nature? In Hobbes’s vision, the state of nature is one of extreme individualism leading to a war of all against...

— Sabino Cassese,  Judge, Italian Constitutional Court and Emeritus Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Published: I·CON 10: 603-613 (2012). 1. Administrative law in transition The literature of the last ten years contains numerous references to two opposite trends: on one hand, “the end of administrative law,” on the other, the “new administrative law.” According to the...

Announcing ICONnect and a major change in the masthead When I took over I.CON some three years ago, one of the changes I announced in its orientation would be to expand the intellectual and academic reach of I.CON to include all spheres of public law—given the blurring of lines between the Constitutional, the Administrative, and...