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Brexit, the Irish Protocol and the “Versailles Effect”
[Editor’s Note: This is from the forthcoming editorial in volume 19, issue 3 of ICON] —J.H.H. Weiler, N.Y.U. School of Law; ICON, Co-Editor-in-Chief What does the Treaty of Versailles have to do with Brexit, you may be asking yourself? Quite a lot, I would like to suggest.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth, research fellow at Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies – Centre of Excellence (Budapest); research fellow at Eotvos Loránd University (Budapest) 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…
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Understanding Identity and the Legacy of Empire in European Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary
—Marina Bán, Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, and Jennifer Pullicino Orlando, PhD Student, University of Copenhagen Introduction Hungary’s 2011 Fundamental Law is exemplary of mnemonic constitutionalism and the shaping of identities through the deployment of a defensive nationalism.
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Legal Possibilities in the Dissolution Case against the Peoples’ Democratic Party in Turkey
—Tolga Şirin, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Marmara University, Turkey. Turkish politics involves a graveyard of political parties, which have been dissolved since the Republic’s early years. Unfortunately, the world record in this regard probably belongs to Turkey, where the courts have, so far, dissolved at least twenty-four political parties with communist, Islamist, or pro-Kurdish…
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Convocatoria Segundo Número en Español: International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON)
Tras el éxito de la convocatoria al primer número en español, El International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) tiene el agrado de anunciar que el primer número en español se publicará en el volumen 19, número 4, de este año. Pronto tendremos más noticias sobre la publicación de este número.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Vini Singh, Assistant Professor & Doctoral Research Scholar, National Law University Jodhpur, India. 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…
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A “Hybrid Coup” in Brazil? Bolsonaro in Desperation Mode
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] The statement that coups nowadays occur mostly from within the institutional framework, not by an external act of force, has become…
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Covid Stories: A Call for Submissions to ICON
Stories of the impact of Covid 19 on inequalities in academia and beyond When the Covid 19 pandemic first started spreading globally in spring 2020, it seemed it could be an “equalizing threat”: The virus affected people in various parts of the world, regardless of nationality, wealth, social standing.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Master Student at the University of Coimbra – Portugal; Postgraduate Student in Constitutional Law at Brazilian Academy of Constitutional Law 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…
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Cancelling Carl Schmitt?
—J.H.H. Weiler, co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Constitutional Law [Editors’ Note: This piece will be published in the next edition of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) as part of the editorial] Sooner or later, I have been telling myself, we, too, editors of learned journals and the like will face this issue, which has…