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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century – Part III. Ethnographic Encounters with Brazil’s Constitutions
—Jeffrey Omari, Northern Illinois University, School of Law Even after transitioning to a constitutional democracy at the end of its military dictatorship in the mid 1980s, Brazil has remained a country with a deep history of socioeconomic inequality. Indeed, during their control of the presidency from January 2003 through August 2016, a primary aim of…
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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.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Anubhav Kumar, Advocate & Researcher, Supreme Court of India In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books, articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.
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After Twenty Years of the 2002 Indonesian “Constitution”: Will President Jokowi Stay in Power Longer?
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University The year 2022 marked the twentieth anniversary of the Indonesian “2002 Constitution.” But the country did not even have a subdued celebration for the Constitution amidst the increasing abuse of the Constitution by the Joko Widodo (“Jokowi”) administration.
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The Major Questions Doctrine and the Principle of Legal Reserve: A Comparison between the U.S. and Spain
–José Ignacio Hernández G., Invited professor, Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain); Researcher, Coruña University (Spain)[1] In memory of Eduardo García de Enterría, on the centennial of his birth The modern Administrative State in the United States has sparked a debate about its constitutionality, particularly in terms of adhering to the original meaning of the Constitution.
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Pension reform in France: the strategic practice of the Constitution
—Nicolas Séébold, Toulouse I Capitole University. The pension reform project in France is not new. Already evoked during the first quinquennium of Emmanuel Macron (2017-2022), it was considered more reasonable to postpone it while the State was confronted with the COVID crisis.
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I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century- Part II- Counter-Constitutional Ethnography
—Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University In normal times, most people do not think about constitutions very much. The existence of the institutions of state, their basic rules of operation, the methods for filling official vacancies and the things that the state should not do to its citizens simply seem obvious and work as expected.
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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.