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What’s New: Week of June 15

— Niels Graaf, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam

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 for our weekly feature on “What’s New in Public Law,” please email iconnecteditors@gmail.com.

Developments in Constitutional Courts

  1. The Conseil Constitutionnel, the French constitutional court sui generis, held that part of the Tax Procedures Code was contrary to the Constitution, on the ground that the sanction prescribed by the unconstitutional provisions was manifestly disproportionate to the infringements it sought to penalise.
  2. The Corte Costituzionale, the Italian Constitutional Court, confirmed that the offence of violating family support obligations under Article 570-bis of the Criminal Code remains prosecutable ex officio, reaffirming the legislature’s broad discretion in determining the applicable regime of prosecution. On June 9th, the Constitutional Court also examined a set of cases referred by the Courts of Campobasso (two) and Mantua (one), all concerning the recent Article 3-bis of Law No. 91/1992 which has drastically limited acquisition of Italian citizenship by descent.
  3. ECJ Advocate General Medina argued in Joined Cases C-706/25 and C-707/25 | [Comeri and Sidilli] that member states, in the exercise of their competence as regards the location of detention facilities, including outside the European Union, remain obliged to observe the guarantees provided for by EU law in asylum matters.
  4. The Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe has rejected an application to conduct live courtroom coverage of the highly anticipated Constitutional Amendment Bill No. 3 case.

In the News

  1. The Dutch Council of State issued a negative opinion on the amendment to the proposed Political Parties Act requiring political parties to adopt internal democratic procedures.
  2. The Polish Parliament has elected 15 judicial members of the National Council of the Judiciary.
  3. The European Union will bring cases against France and Spain after they did not enact legislation on protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, following a directive passed in 2022.
  4. The European Union Pact on Migration and Asylum will apply in all EU member states from 12 June 2026.
  5. Palantir has lost a legal challenge by which they had sought to force a Swiss magazine to publish their responses to articles covering the Swiss government’s rejection of Palantir’s services.

New Scholarship

  1. Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf et al (eds), Verfassungsrechtspflege. Festschrift 75 Jahre Bundesverfassungsgericht 2026 (The volume marking the 75th anniversary of the German Federal Cosntitutional Court explores the court as a formative actor in constitutional life and analyzes its influence on constitutional development)
  2. Yochai Rosner, ‘Five Approaches to Constituent Power: Reflections on the Israeli Reasonableness Ruling’, German Law Journal, p. 1–24 (2026) (Two years ago the Israeli Supreme Court struck down a constitutional law in a precedential 8-7 ruling. This article argues that the court did not adopt the unconstitutional constitutional amendment doctrine. Instead, it adopted a much more radical doctrine of constitutional review.)
  3. Camoni Daniele, La tutela cautelare davanti alle Corti apicali e sovranazionali Profili di diritto costituzionale comparato (G. Giappichelli 2026) (The study is devoted to a comparative analysis of interim measures understood as a ‘constitutional issue’ in the United States, Spain and a selection of supranational courts (the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights).
  4. Andreas Follesdal, Jan Petrov, and Alain Zysset, Special Issue of The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review on the European Court of Human Rights Versus Illiberal and Authoritarian Practices.

Calls for Papers and Announcements

  1. ICON.S South Asia invites abstracts for its Annual Workshop for early-career scholars (8 and 9 January 2027, Colombo, Sri Lanka). The deadline for abstract Submission is 30 June 2026.
  2. The European Public law Organisation invites scholars to submit a proposal on the theme of the 2026 Conference (11-13 September): ‘International Law, European Union Law, Constitutional Law’. The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2026.
  3. The New Problems of Democracy and Possible Solutions Research Network invites proposals for its first Workshop on Problems of Democracy and Possible Solutions (Carter Center in Atlanta, GA on September 25-26, 2026). The deadline for submissions is 19 June 2026. 
  4. The International Journal of Human Rights invites abstracts for a Special Issue on ‘Accountability for Child Rights – Mechanisms, Challenges, and Pathways Forward’. The deadline for abstracts is 29 June.

Elsewhere Online

  1. Corrado Caruso and Michał Stambulski, Start of the Blog Symposium on ‘militant constitutionalism’, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog (10 June 2026).
  2. Daniel Rietiker, ‘Freedom of Speech at the FIFA World Cup 2026’ Verfassungsblog (11 June 2026).
  3. Sébastien Platon, ‘The French National Assembly’s Subsidiarity Challenge to the Migration Pact: AG Ćapeta’s Opinion in Assemblée nationale v. Parliament and Council (C-553/24)’ EU Law Live (10 June 2026).
  4. Andrew Tyrie, ‘Watching the Watchers: The Intelligence and Security Committee: From Form to Substance‘ The Constitution Unit Report no. 216 (10 June 2026)

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