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Developments in Nigerian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Nigerian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Solomon Ukhuegbe, Department of Public Law, University of Benin, Nigeria; Ph.D.
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Article Review: Aileen Kavanagh on Neil Duxbury’s Judicial Disapproval as a Constitutional Technique
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Article Review Series, Aileen Kavanagh reviews Neil Duxbury’s article on Judicial Disapproval as a Constitutional Technique, which appears in the current issue of I•CON. Duxbury’s full article is available for free here.] —Aileen Kavanagh, University of Oxford In a fascinating article published in the most recent issue of ICON, Professor Neil Duxbury considers ‘judicial…
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Developments in Icelandic Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Icelandic constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, Reykjavik University School of Law, and Anna Lísa Ingólfsdóttir I.
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Developments in Mexican Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Mexican constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —José Ramón Cossío Díaz, Mexican Supreme Court Justice; Constitutional Law Professor at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM); member of El Colegio…
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May the Rule of Law be Retroactive? Berlusconi’s Case Before the European Court of Human Rights
—Franco Peirone, Jean Monnet Center, NYU School of Law On November 22, 2017, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will have to decide on a curious petition: the former Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, claims to have suffered an injustice by a retroactive application of Italian anti-corruption legislation.
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Can International Organisations Help to Stem Democratic Decay? (I-CONnect Column)
—Tom Gerald Daly, Fellow, Melbourne Law School; Associate Director, Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts.
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The Chilean Presidential Election and the Constituent Process
–Alberto Coddou Mc Manus, Observatory of the Chilean Constituent Process Next Sunday, November 19, Chile will celebrate one of the most important presidential elections since the return to democracy in 1990s. According to different opinion polls, Sebastian Piñera, a right-wing millionaire, will most likely receive the highest number of votes in the first round, and…
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Developments in Singaporean Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Singaporean constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. –Jaclyn L. Neo,*Jack Tsen-Ta Lee,+ Makoto Hong,^ and Ho Jiayun# I.
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Developments in French Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on French constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Corinne Luquiens, Member of the Conseil constitutionnel, Nefeli Lefkopoulou, Ph.D.
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Public Law in Crisis? (I·CON Volume 15, Issue 3: Editorial)
We invited Sabino Cassese, member of the I.CON Board of Editors, to write a Guest Editorial. Public law in crisis? Developments in the last century Public law has greatly changed in the last century. It has lost several elements: the guidance from Roman law (Section 1.1); the compass of sovereignty (Section 1.2); its exclusively nationalistic…