Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

  • My Patria is the Book: Ten Good Reads 2024

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    —J. H. H. Weiler, New York University School of Law; Co-Editor-in-Chief, I·CON Here, again, is my pick of “Good Reads” from the books I read in 2024. I want to remind you, as I do every year, that these are not “book reviews”, which also explains the relative paucity of law books or books about the…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Mikołaj Wolanin, Master’s student, University of Warsaw (Poland) 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, PhD Candidate, Sciences Po Law School 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    –Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra. 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    Surbhi Karwa, PhD Candidate, UNSW – Sydney 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    –Nicola Abate, Ph.D. Candidate at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Sonder Li, Legal Support Assistant at Matrix Chambers 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…


  • Bangladesh in Stasis: No Way Out Without a New Constitution?

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    —M A Sayeed, UNSW Sydney, Australia/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, and Lima Aktar, Thomas More Law School, ACU, Melbourne/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh[1] Constitutional crisis may occur for many factors, but when it triggers constitutional transformation, it becomes stasis (Alberto Esu). In Greek, stasis means civil/political unrest, disharmony and, to its most extreme, the breakdown of the constitutional system…


  • Editorial: On My Way Out—Advice to Early Career Scholars VII: Best Practice for Workshopping Projected Edited Collections (Books, Symposia) in 10 Not So Easy Steps

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    [Editor’s Note: This Editorial by ICON EIC J.H.H. Weiler is forthcoming in ICON.] On my way out? It appears, you might be thinking, to be a very long and winding way, and I cannot even promise that this is the last instalment….  Still, for what it is worth, here is another of my “dos and…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    –Neslihan Çetin, PhD in Public Law 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…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —Tina Nicole Nelly Youan, PhD Candidate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Université 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.…


  • 2025-26 Emile Noël Global Fellowship Applications | New York University School of Law

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    New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the following fellowships: Emile Noël Fellowship Program Deadline: January 15, 2025 The principal objective of the Emile Noël Fellowship program is scholarship and the advancement of research on the themes prioritized by the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice,…


  • Abusive Legalism Against Indigenous Minorities: Challenges of the Marco Temporal II Case before the Brazilian Supreme Court

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    —Ranieri L Resende, Postdoctoral Researcher, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)[1] Soon after celebrating a historic victory before the Supreme Court in the Marco Temporal I case, which held that the date of promulgation of the Constitution could not be used as the mandatory date for the demarcation of indigenous lands, Brazilian indigenous peoples…


  • Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Epilogue: Abusive Judicial Reform in Mexico

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    —Irene Parra Prieto, IACL-AIDC blog, Rosalind Dixon, University of New South Wales, & David Landau, Florida State University College of Law [Editors’ Note: This is the 9th entry, and the “Epilogue,” of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here.  The symposium pieces are…


  • Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Solomonic Judgment: Upholding the Constitutionality of Death Penalty at the Limits of Reform

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    —Ming-Sung Kuo, Reader in Law, University of Warwick (UK), and Hui-Wen Chen, Research Assistant, University of Warwick (UK) Introduction: The Reform Jurisprudence Comes Full Circle? Before the current Taiwan Constitutional Court (TCC) under the leadership of Chief Justice Tzong-Li HSU – call it Hsu’s Court – hit its halfway milestone, we argued in this space…


  • Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 8: The Problem of the Amending or Revising Power and Its Constitutional Limits

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    —Imer B. Flores, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, UNAM [E]very constitution as a whole is a limit,constitutional government means limited government.Hilario Medina [Editors’ Note: This is Part 8 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here.  The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in…


  • Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 7: A Predicament of Its Own Making – On the Supreme Court of Mexico’s Conundrum on the Limits of Amendment Powers

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    —Jaime Olaiz-González, Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City)[1] [Editors’ Note: This is Part 7 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here.  The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish). We are grateful to Ana Micaela Alterio…


  • Symposium on the Judicial Overhaul in Mexico Part 6: The Future of the Mexican Supreme Court

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    —Alfonso Herrera, Universidad Panamericana & Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City) [Editors’ Note: This is Part 6 of a symposium on the recent constitutional amendments affecting the judiciary in Mexico. The introduction to the symposium can be found here.  The symposium pieces are cross-posted at ICONnect (in English) and at IberICONnect (in Spanish). We are grateful to…


  • What’s New in Public Law

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    —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. To submit relevant developments for our weekly…


  • ICON Volume 22, Issue 2: Editorial

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    Editorial In this issue Guest Editorial: Unsexing scholarship? Towards better citation and citizenship practices in global public law In this issue The guest editorial which opens this issue is authored by Rosalind Dixon and Mila Versteeg, who consider how the under-citation of female scholars can be addressed. They link this to a number of structural…