What’s New in Public Law

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

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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. Constitutional Tribunal of Poland ruled that the scope of the parliamentary commission of investigation into the wiretapping by the Pegasus software was unconstitutional.
2. Did one of the US courts of appeals overstepped its authority in the climate change lawsuit? This will be determined by the US Supreme Court.
3. The judge in North Dakota declared the unconstitutionality of the abortion ban.
4. Journalists suspect that their calls with climate activists were wiretapped. The complaint, after negative for them court rulings, was sent to the Germany Federal Constitutional Court.
5. Constitutional Court of Indonesia rejected the case on the age requirement for the candidates to leadership positions of the Corruption Eradication Commission in this state.

In the News

1. Donald Trump’s sentencing date was changed to November 26^th, after the elections.
2. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump faced each other at the presidential debate.
3. On September 7^th, Algeria re-elected its president.
4. The idea of the judicial overhaul in Mexico gains more and more state leguslatures’ approvals.
5. Polish first parliamentary chamber returned to business after the summer break and adopted the final version of the bill reforming the Constitutional Tribunal and restoring its compliance with the rule of law principles..

New Scholarship

1. Barber N.W., What is constitutional ideology?, “Internaional Journal of Constitutional Law”, forthcoming.
2. Albert R., Decolonial Constitutionalism, “Chicago Journal of International Law”, forthcoming.
3. Falk R., von Sponeck H., Liberating the United Nations. Realism with Hope, 2024.
4. Mazo E.D. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law, forthcoming.
5. Clopton Z.D., Shoked N., Suing Cities, “Yale Law Journal” 8/2024.

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. Abstracts are still welcomed for the Global Summit on Constitutionalism planned for March 2025.
2. On October 3^rd and 4^th, the IACL-AIDC organises its roundtable in Rome on the topic: “Current Challenges to Constitutional Democracy.”
3. “How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law?” — that is the question of the workshop planned for May 2025 in Geneva. The abstracts are welcome up to October 15^th.
4. 2024 Critical Legal Conference organized this year in Lund (Sweden) commences its programme.
5. University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative welcomes the submissions for the Federalism Scholarship Roundtable that will happen on April 25^th 2025.

Elsewhere Online

1.  Schultheiss Ch., Can China and the Philippines Save Their South China Sea Understanding?, The Diplomat.
2. Wanigasuriya A., Putin Travels to Mongolia: What Prevents His Arrest?, OpinioJuris.
3. Bottini E., Perlo N., France’s Shifting Constitutional Landscape, Verfassungsblog.
4. Lindseth P., Leino-Sandberg P., Democratizing Draghi, Verfassungsblog.
5. Velasco-Rivera M., Olaiz J., Parra I.P., Mexico’s constitutional democracy in crisis: the judicial overhaul is only the beginning, IACL-AIDC Blog