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ICON-S Chapter Proposal | Ecuador | Invitation for Comment and Participation
—Felicia Caponigri and Johanna Fröhlich, Co-Directors of Chapter Development, The International Society of Public Law The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) has received a proposal from Andrés Martínez Moscoso to create an Ecuadorean chapter of ICON-S.Please write to icons.chapterdevelopment@gmail.com and to Andrés Martínez at amartinez@usfq.edu.ec
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Editorial: Open Access: No Closed Matter
[Editor’s note: This Editorial is forthcoming in Volume 23, Issue 1 of ICON.] The move to Open Access publishing has been driven in large part by a desire to make research publicly available and to make knowledge less exclusive. The journals that we edit have long been committed to these objectives.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Azeem Amedi, LLM in Legal and Political Theory, University of York —Guy Baldwin, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge 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
—Nicola Abate, Ph.D. candidate at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain —Recep Orhun Kılıç, PhD Student (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli 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…
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Extending the Parliament Beyond its Fixed Term: Between Judicial Activism and Judicial Self-restraint
Majida Ismael, Liverpool John Moores’ Law School Recently, following the contentious sessions and constant delays , on 30th May 2023, the Federal Supreme Court (FSC) broadcast its controversial ruling in case 233/2022 and, ruled unconstitutional the one-year extension to the term of the Parliament in Kurdistan.
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Israel’s Constitutional Breakdown – Six Months In
—Ori Aronson, Bar-Ilan University Nearly six months have passed since the start of the push by Israel’s governing coalition to remove legal limitations on its powers by undermining the independence of the judiciary and the attorney general and eliminating judicial review.
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part IX. Protocols and Rights: Northern Ireland’s Constitutional Conundrums.
—Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly, University of California -Irvine The main question I wish to pose is both empirical and practical: what sites and people should we be engaging ethnographically to understand constitutions, ethnography, ethnographies of constitutions and constitutional ethnographies? Put simply, I’m asking how should we as scholars do our work and where can we learn…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part VIII. Studying Law in Context: Revisiting the Reasonable Person
[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]. Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California When considering the intellectual history of the law and society movement, we encounter familiar adages.
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The Representation of Women in National High Courts: A “Quota Revolution” in the Making?
—Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg Women’s meaningful representation in the judiciary has gained visibility in national and international fora. Still, women remain under-represented in the top echelons of the judiciary. Although international courts have traditionally been the focus of attention for initiatives to counter the low percentage of women occupying judicial posts, more recently national…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Neslihan Çetin, PhD Candidate (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) –Sonder Li, LL.M. (King’s College London) 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…