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Convocatoria Cuarto Número en Español: International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON)
Tras el éxito de la convocatoria a los primeros números en español, el International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) tiene el agrado de anunciar que el tercer número en español se publicará en el volumen 21, número 5, de este año.
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Interculturality and Brazil’s Marco temporal
—Sebastian Abad Jara, LLM in International Law, University of Cambridge; Daniel Pereira Campos, PhD candidate at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian law on indigenous lands is perhaps one the most significant examples of a detachment between “law in books” and “law in action”, with a substantial impact on the rights of indigenous peoples.
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Priority-Setting and the Right to Health: Important Advances and Missed Opportunities from the Colombian Constitutional Court
—Alicia Ely Yamin, Harvard Law School In an important, newly issued opinion, T-237/2023, the Colombian Constitutional Court (the Court) addresses priority-setting in the context of triage during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Court has issued some of the most progressive jurisprudence regarding the right to health in the world.
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The facilitation of expatriate voting in Greece
—Fereniki Panagopoulou, Assistant Professor at Panteion University Ι. Introduction The Greek legislature recently introduced legislation to facilitate the voting of expatriates in Greece, allowing, in this instance, voting for all expatriates registered in the electoral rolls. The previous laws had stringent conditions that made it challenging for expatriates to exercise their voting rights.
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Constitutional amendments review without entrenchment in Israel? Common law constitutionalism and the limits of judicial review reform
—Paolo Sandro, University of Leeds Introduction Last month Netanyahu’s government, despite the unprecedented mass demonstrations taking place on a weekly basis across Israel for months now, has passed what is likely to be only the first step of their proposed overhaul of the Israeli judicial system.
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The Decline of the Indonesian Constitutional Court
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University On August 13, 2023, Indonesia celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the country’s Constitutional Court. When the Court was initially established twenty years ago, it was a kind of joke that later turned out to be a serious affair.[1]
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The Right to Assisted Dying in Portugal
—Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] Assisted dying regimes are increasingly being introduced globally. When the democratic legislature fails to take the initiative, courts have stepped in and pushed for legal reform claiming that this is an issue of…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Lawyer and Master’s student in Constitutional Law at the University of Coimbra, Portugal 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Maja Sahadžić, Assistant Professor (Utrecht University), Visiting Professor (University of Antwerp), Senior Research Fellow (Law Institute in B&H), and Affiliated Scholar (CUHK). 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…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Irina Criveț, PhD Candidate Public Law, Koç University 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.