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  • Introduction: Symposium on the Chilean Constitutional Referendum

    —David Landau, Florida State University College of Law[1] On September 4, 2022, after a two month campaign, voters headed to the polls and rejected the draft Chilean constitution by an overwhelming margin – 62 to 38 percent. With mandatory voting in effect for the first time in recent years, turnout was extremely high.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Irina Criveț, PhD Candidate in 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.

  • The Curious Case of the Taliban’s Judicial Empowerment

    —Shamshad Pasarlay, Visiting Lecturer, The University of Chicago School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2022 columnists, see here.] Constitutional theorists have long debated a puzzling question: why do political officeholders choose to impose limits on their power and authorize apex courts to enforce…

  • International Democracy and United States Constitution Day: Why American Constitutionalists Should Pay More Attention to Democracy

    —Miguel Schor, Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center By a happy calendrical coincidence, United Nations International Democracy Day, which falls on September 15, is observed two days before United States Constitution Day. This coincidence provides an opportunity to reflect on the linkages between democracy and our constitution.

  • Basic Structure and Tiered Amendment Processes: The Kenyan Supreme Court’s BBI Ruling

    —Gautam Bhatia, SCRIPTS Centre for Excellence, University of Humboldt, Berlin [Editors’ Note: This is the fourth and final post in a joint symposium on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in Kenya, through which President Uhuru Kenyatta attempted to introduce the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    –Silvio Roberto Vinceti, Adjunct Lecturer, 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 public law blogosphere.

  • Constitutional Authoritarian Populism in Tunisia

     –José Ignacio Hernández G., Catholic University Andrés Bello (Venezuela); Invited professor, Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain); Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Tunisia is the most recent example of an authoritarian backslide covered by constitutional formalities and boosted by populist rhetoric. Since July 25, 2021, Tunisian President Kais Saied has adopted several authoritarian decisions that were justified as…

  • Jacobsohn & Roznai’s Machiavellian Insights for our Machiavellian Moment

    —Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, Project Associate Professor, University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics. Twitter: @botiojanco [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2022 columnists, see here.] Motivating Gary Jacobsohn & Yaniv Roznai’s Constitutional Revolution (2020) are a series of Machiavellian moments, times when a profound political…

  • The BBI Judgment: Of Basic Structure Doctrines and Participatory Constitution-making

    —Dr Silvia Suteu, Associate Professor, University College London Faculty of Laws [Editors’ Note: This is the third post in a joint symposium on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) in Kenya, through which President Uhuru Kenyatta attempted to introduce the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill, 2020.

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Robert Rybski, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Environment and Sustainable Development. 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…