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ICON Volume 23, Issue 1: Table of Contents
I•CON Volume 23 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Making gender equality visible in judicial selections at the European Court of Justice Honoring our peer reviewers I•CON Foreword Nehal Bhuta, Social rights and the origins of the social constitution: From collective natural rights to the social state Articles Holning Lau,…
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ICON Volume 23, Issue 1: Editorial
In this issue; Guest editorial: Making gender equality visible in judicial selections at the European Court of Justice In this issue We begin this issue with a Guest Editorial by Laure Clement-Wilz and Fernanda Nicola, who invite reflection on the criteria for judicial selection at the European Court of Justice.
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–Alan Mauricio Jiménez Díaz, PhD. Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain –Sumit Kumar Ganguly, Assistant Professor, SGT University, Gurugram, India 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…
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Wildfires, Legal Geography, and the Constitution
—Maria Tzanakopoulou, Senior lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law Amid record temperatures across Europe, the continent is once again confronted by multiple wildfire fronts. Several deaths have been reported while thousands have been evacuated. The EU has triggered its Civil Protection Mechanism to offer emergency assistance, as domestic civil protection services struggle to cope.
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A Convenient Emergency: Perilous Times for Judicial Independence in Ecuador
—Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, X: @PatySValarezo The notion of the judiciary’s inherent weakness, as proposed in The Federalist Papers number 78, along with Tsebelis’s idea (Tsebellis 2002) of judges as veto players ultimately absorbed by other political actors, can now be questioned in light of the many judicial decisions with significant…
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Between Imposition and Consensus: On the Sensibilities of Constitutionalism
—Jorge González-Jacome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On June 7, 2025, Colombians seemed to relive a nightmare they had experienced in the late 1980s.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Kushagr Bakshi, SJD Candidate (University of Michigan) and Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk (Supreme Court of India) 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…
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Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far
Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far —Andrea Palumbo, Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven[*] The next frontier of risk management: systemic risks in the Digital Services Act and the AI Act In the last decade, EU legislation has experienced a shift to risk-based regulation as the…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, India. —Olumide Opeyemi Toyinbo, Postgraduate Student, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. 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…
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The Failure of Impeachment in Indonesia: A Comparative View
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Creighton University School of Law Introduction In the first six months of 2025, the Asian continent has witnessed a wave of impeachments in several nations. On April 4, 2025, President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea was removed from Office by the Constitutional Court, following his impeachment on in December 2024.[1]
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North Korea in South Korean Eyes: Enemy or Reunification Partner?
—Yoomin Won, Associate Professor, Seoul National University School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] In December 2023, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un officially announced that the two Koreas are “two hostile states,” effectively renouncing unification.
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