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Taking Constitutional Statecraft Beyond the Courts – a Book Review of Yvonne Tew’s “Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Ming-Sung Kuo reviews Yvonne Tew’s book on Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts (Oxford University Press, 2020)] — Ming-Sung Kuo, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK National experiences in Asia have abundantly enriched the gene pool of comparative constitutional law thanks to great efforts of scholars from…
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Call for Proposals and Papers | New Challenges and New Solutions: The Dawn of Smart Cities Law
The IUS Publicum Network Review invites short proposals for papers to be included in a special issue on Smart Cities. Proposals should be sent by May 31, 2021. Proposals will be reviewed and applicants will be notified by June 15, 2021.
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ICON Volume 18, Issue 4: Editorial
We invited Ruth Rubio-Marín, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, Spain, to write a Guest Editorial. Following the Editorial, an earlier interview by Ruth Rubio-Marín with Justice Ruth Ginsburg which first appeared in vol. 15:3 of the journal is reprinted.
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ICON’s Latest Issue: Table of Contents
Volume 18 Issue 4 Table of Contents Editorial Honor Roll of Reviewers 2020 I•CONIC Interview Ruth Rubio-Marín, “Notorious RBG”: A conversation with United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Articles Samuel Issacharoff, The corruption of popular sovereignty Gabrielle Appleby and Anna Olijnyk, Constitutional norms: practice and perceptions Alan Greene, Parliamentary sovereignty and the locus…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Eman Muhammad Rashwan, Ph.D. Candidate in the European Doctorate in Law & Economics (EDLE), Hamburg University, Germany; Assistant Lecturer of Public Law, Cairo University, Egypt. 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…
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The Latest from Ius Publicum Network Review
—Gabriella M. Racca, University of Turin Since 2015, I-CONnect and IUS Publicum Network Review have partnered to deepen the study of comparative public law and to enhance its online coverage. The IUS Publicum Network Review is a network of the national leading public and administrative law journals in Europe, whose aim is to track and interpret the…
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Minority Rights – Ukraine’s Gateway to the West
—Balázs Tárnok, Hungary Foundation’s Visiting Research Fellow – Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA; Associate Researcher – Europe Strategy Research Institute, University of Public Service, Budapest. In 2017, the Ukrainian Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) adopted a new Law on Education which limits the right of ethnic minorities to be educated in their…
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Message from the Editors of ICON and EJIL
A great deal of the production process of ICON and EJIL takes place in India. We are all aware of the enormity of the COVID challenge facing India and its painful human cost. We express our solidarity with the members of the journal production teams in India.
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The Return of Lula in Brazil: New Challenges for Comparative Presidential Studies
—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.] A recent column published in The Economist titled ”The Problem of Latin America’s Proxy Presidents” raises the argument that,…
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Beyond Republic or Emirate: Afghan Constitutional System at Crossroads
— Zubair Abbasi, Chevening Fellow, Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, Associate Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Introduction President Biden’s declaration of US withdrawal from Afghanistan has raised concerns about the future of the Afghan constitutional system. Afghanistan’s current Constitution was adopted in 2004.