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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part VII. Rhetoric and “Constitutional ethnography”. Interdisciplinary perspectives panel
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a symposium on Constitutional Ethnography. This is the seventh entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Deepa Das Acevedo. The introduction is available here]. —Marianne Constable, University of Alabama. Decades ago, U.S. political scientist and administrative law professor Martin Shapiro advised his students to study “any court…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part VI. Comments on Constitutional Ethnography
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a symposium on Constitutional Ethnography. This is the sixth entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Deepa Das Acevedo. The introduction is available here]. —John Conley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Revisiting Constitutional Ethnography eighteen years after its publication has prompted me to think about…
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The Audacity of the Expert Commission in Chile
—Francisco Soto Barrientos, Professor, and Benjamín Alemparte, Researcher, University of Chile [Editor’s Note: Professor Soto is a member of the Expert Commission, while Mr. Alemparte is serving as his advisor.] The remarkable level of almost unanimous consent in the approval of a new constitution’s draft by Chile’s Expert Commission is an unprecedented case in the…
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ICON’s Latest Issue (Table of Contents)
Volume 21, number 1 Editorial: Israel: Cry, the beloved country; In this issue Editorial Reflection Günter Frankenberg, Constituting the negative globality of fear I•CON Foreword Sergio Verdugo, Is it time to abandon the theory of constituent power? Articles David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová, Comparative court-packing Focus: Poland and Hungary Zoltán Szente, The myth of populist…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Silvio Roberto Vinceti, Research Fellow (Post-Doc), Department of Law, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 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…
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“La Muerte Cruzada”: How Ecuador’s President Lasso ended an Impeachment Attempt by Decree
–Adwaldo Lins Peixoto Neto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Presidential impeachment is a democratic but turbulent instrument of removing presidents who committed misdeeds without breaking the political and democratic system. In Ecuador, this institution has now worked adequately under the last constitution, and the Constitution promulgated in 2008 set a new institutional…
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Abortion and Selective Conscientious Objection
—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.] Universal conscientious objection in the health sector challenges the provision of legally guaranteed services, thus possibly jeopardizing the right to health of affected persons.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Claudia Marchese, Research Fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Sassari, Italy Developments in Constitutional Courts By its decision no. 2023-850 DC of 17 May 2023, the French Constitutional Council gave its opinion on the law relating to the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part V. Constitutional Ethnography for Beginners
—David S. Law, University of Virginia School of Law Ethnographic approaches are not as widely practiced among constitutional scholars as they probably should be. Some may harbor perfectly reasonable doubts about the relevance and accessibility of such approaches. There are a number of basic questions that constitutional scholars might fairly ask themselves: “Why should I…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part IV. Where is a Constitution?
Anya Bernstein, Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut In her timely keynote to this symposium, Kim Lane Scheppele notes that “constitutionalism hinges on its being taken for real and taken for granted across a wide swath of the population.” To understand the counter-constitutional movements she talks about, we also need an account of how…