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ICON Volume 22, Issue 1: Table of Contents
I•CON Volume 22 Issue 1 Table of Contents Letters to the Editors Zhaoxin Jiang, A constitutional court’s survival (by any name) Ming-Sung Kuo, The “constitutional court of China”? Setting the record straight Zhaoxin Jiang, State-centered liberal constitutionalism: An underappreciated legacy of “China’s Constitutional Court” Editorial: In this issue; The human ChatGPT—The use and abuse of research assistants Honor Roll of Reviewers 2023 I•CON Foreword Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy, Gender and the legal academy Articles Leena Grover, Out of the shadows: Illuminating the distinctiveness and exceptional use of interim constitutions Pau Bossacoma Busquets, Secession from and secession within the European Union: Toward a holistic theory of secession Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Control and paralysis?
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ICON Volume 22, Issue 1: Editorial
Editorial: In this issue; Honoring our peer reviewers; The human ChatGPT—The use and abuse of research assistants In this issue In the Letters to the Editors, Zhaoxin Jiang replied to Chien-Chih Lin’s article in the I•CON: Debate! published in our volume 21:2 issue and to Ming-Sung Kuo’s Letter to the Editors in volume 21:3.
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Announcement | Proposal for Taiwanese Chapter of ICON-S
—Felicia Caponigri and Johanna Fröhlich, Co-Directors of Chapter Development, The International Society of Public Law The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) has received a proposal from Chien-Chih Lin & Yi-Li Lee to create a Taiwanese chapter of ICON-S. Please write to icons.chapterdevelopment@gmail.com
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What’s New in Public Law
—Claudia Marchese, Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Sassari (Italy) Developments in Constitutional Courts South Africa’s electoral commission appealed to the Constitutional Court to rule on whether former President Jacob Zuma can stand as a candidate in general elections in May considering that in 2021 he was convicted and sentenced to 15 months in prison.
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The Role of a Judge in an Electoral Autocracy
—Aparna Chandra, Associate Professor of Law and M. K. Nambyar Chair Professor on Constitutional Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] The Autocrats’ Playbook This is the year of elections.
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The Perils of Presidentialism (and the Lessons of the United States)
—Miguel Schor, Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center, and the Class of 1977 Distinguished Scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Presidentialism has a comparatively poor democratic track record.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Anubhav Kumar, Advocate & Researcher, Supreme Court of India In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books, articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.
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Symposium | Feminist Constitutionalism: Part III – How Feminist Constitutionalism Embraces Diversity: Challenging Quebec’s Bill 21
This is the third essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin, as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil,’ which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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The future for citizens’ assemblies in Ireland
—Seána Glennon, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law In the past decade, the Irish people have voted in favour of a range of liberalising constitutional amendments: from marriage equality to abortion rights to removing the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Luxor Elementary Court, Egypt. LLM Leeds Beckett University, UK. –Jose Mario de la Garza-Martins, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Theory, Universidad Panamericana, Mexico In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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After the Indonesian 2024 General Election: What Went Wrong With Indonesian Democracy?
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University On March 20th, 2024, the Indonesian Election Commission officially declared that the Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto won the Presidential Election, which took place on February 14, 2024. The result might not be shocking because Prabowo had maintained a lead in the pre-election survey.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna. —Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law University of Tuzla and a member of the Constitutional Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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