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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century. Part I: Alter-Native Constitutionalism: Decolonising(?) ‘Common’ Law, Transforming South Africa
—Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, University of Massachusetts Amherst More than twenty-five years since becoming a constitutional democracy, South Africa presents the perplexing paradox of arguably having the most progressive Constitution in the world marked by strong socio-economic rights protection while also being the most unequal country in the world (Gini Coefficient: .63) with growing poverty rates.
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A Call to Constituent-Power Ethnography
—João Vitor Cardoso, Universidad de Chile** [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] That ethnography is no longer the exclusive province of anthropology is undisputed. Within a wide range of disciplines that had taken ethnographic turns, there figures what Kim Lane Scheppele defines as “constitutional…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Mariana Avelar, PhD student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and visiting researcher at Goëthe Universität and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law —Juan Sebastián López, law student at Universidad Externado de Colombia, member of the International Society of Public Law and its Colombian chapter.
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ICON Volume 20, Issue 5: Editorial
In this issue; Guest Editorial: Islands and ocean: Public law and international legal ordering in Oceania; 10 good reads 2022 In this issue In his Guest Editorial, which readers will find directly after this section, Guy Fiti Sinclair, member of the ICON•S 2023 organizing committee, explores some of the themes of the forthcoming ICON•S conference…
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ICON: Honor Roll of Reviewers 2022
We are indebted to the following colleagues who, in addition to our Advisory Board members, gave their time this year to act as peer reviewers for I•CON. Without their valuable contribution we would not be able to maintain the excellent scholarly standards of our Journal.
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ICON’s Latest Issue (Table of Contents)
Volume 20 Issue 5 Table of Contents Editorial: In this issue; Guest Editorial: Islands and ocean: Public law and international legal ordering in Oceania; 10 good reads 2022 Honor Roll of Reviewers 2022 Articles Virgilio Afonso da Silva, Standing in the shadows of balancing: Proportionality and the necessity test Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany, The…
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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 from…
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century
—Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law On October 14, 2022, the University of Alabama School of Law hosted a symposium centered on “constitutional ethnography”—a term coined almost twenty years ago by Kim Lane Scheppele to describe “the study of the central legal elements of politics using methods that…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Nicola Abate, PhD Candidate, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona —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 blog posts…