Author: dlandau
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ICON’s Current Issue (Table of Contents)
Volume 15 Issue 3 Table of Contents Editorial In Memoriam: Norman Dorsen (1930-2017) I.CONic Interview Ruth Rubio Marin and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, “Notorious RBG”: A conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Articles Toni Marzal, From Hercules to Pareto: of bathos, proportionality and EU law Neil Duxbury, Judicial disapproval as a constitutional…
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Developments in UK Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on United Kingdom 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. –Stephen Tierney* Asanga Welikala+ Tom Gerald Dalyǂ I.
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Is Ecuador Heading Towards a Constitutional Crisis?
–Mauricio Guim, S.J.D. candidate and Presidential Fellow in Data Science, University of Virginia School of Law & Augusto Verduga, LL.M. candidate, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador The Republic of Ecuador is going through one of the most interesting transitions in the world.
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Developments in the Commonwealth Caribbean: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Commonwealth Caribbean 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. –Derek O’Brien, Oxford Brookes University I.
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The Colombian Constitutional Court Rules that the Peace Agreement is Mandatory for Three Presidential Terms
–Gonzalo Ramírez-Cleves, Externado University, Bogotá On October 11, the Colombian Constitutional Court issued an important decision that will help to stabilize the peace agreement between the government and the FARC-EP guerrilla group, while maintaining a key role for constitutional supervision over the process.
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Religious Education in Brazil: A Tale of a Never-Ending Past
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo & Fábio Almeida, University of Brasília On September 27, the Brazilian Supreme Court arguably decided the most important case on religious freedom and education rights in Brazilian history. Under scrutiny was whether religious freedom (Art. 5, VI, of the Brazilian Constitution) and religious education (Art.
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Developments in Thai Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Thai 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. –Khemthong Tonsakulrungruang, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Bristol I.
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The Brazilian Moment in the Judicialization of Mega-Politics
–Vanice Lirio do Valle, Estacio de Sá University The Brazilian political crisis is visible worldwide, due to the bombastic effects of the findings in the huge police investigation called the “car-wash operation”. From the initial imprisonment of Senator Delcidio Amaral in 2015, up to the second criminal complaint addressed to President Michel Temer who was charged…
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Developments in Swedish Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Swedish 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. –Thomas Bull, Justice of the Supreme Administrative Court, LL.D.,