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The “scientific reasonableness” doctrine in the Italian Constitutional Court’s decisions on mandatory vaccinations
—Micol Pignataro, P.h.D. student in Constitutional Law, University of Bologna, Italy. As we are leaving behind what appears to have been one of the greatest collective traumas our generations have endured in the most recent years, constitutional adjudicators are increasingly engaging with issues concerning the legitimacy of the measures that have been adopted by national…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Surbhi Karwa, Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School, India —Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, Master’s student, University Paris Panthéon-Assas 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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The Indian Constitution through the Lens of Power – I: The Union and the States
—Gautam Bhatia, Advocate, New Delhi and independent legal scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] In his book, Latin American Constitutionalism, Roberto Gargarella calls upon scholars of constitutional law to focus upon the “engine room” of the Constitution: i.e.,
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What’s New in Public Law
—Leigha Crout, PhD Candidate at King’s College London & William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Law School —Tina Nicole Nelly Youan, PhD Candidate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Université In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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I·CONnect – Letter from the Editor-in-Chief of I·CON
The internet has changed the face of publishing – for good and for bad. It has certainly democratized publishing. Want to publish? You can Blog! Just choose among half a dozen ready-made one-size-fits-all blog platform purveyors, say a little prayer, and, as the Americans say, you’re all set!
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Bautam Bhatia
Gautam Bhatia is an Indian lawyer and legal scholar. He is the author of Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Freedom of Speech under the Indian Constitution and The Transformative Constitution. His work – including the constitutional law blog, Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy– has been cited on several occasions by the Supreme Court of India.
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João Vitor Cardoso
João Vitor Cardoso was an ethnographer at the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-2022). He is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of Chile and holds a M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). He studies sociological constitutionalism and constitutional politics with a special focus on Brazil and Chile.
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Esther Ang’awa
Esther Ang’awa is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya with practice experience providing legal advisory and representation in public and private law matters, as well as advising State and non-State actors on law, constitutionalism and governance. Ang’awa is passionate about creating legal awareness in the society and pushing for public governance that is people-centred, participatory and transformative.
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Teresa Violante
Teresa Violante is a PhD Candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. She holds a graduate degree in law (University of Coimbra) and a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratization (University of Padova), and lectures on fundamental…