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Going Against the Tide: The Romanian Constitutional Court Rejects a Ban on Gender Studies
—Georgiana Epure, President of the Association for Liberty and Gender Equality, Romania and Elena Brodeală, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich and Odobleja Fellow at the New Europe College in Bucharest Despite a regional backsliding on gender issues in Eastern Europe, the Constitutional Court of Romania (“CCR” or “the Court”) has recently decided that…
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Special Undergraduate Series–Six Issues for Debate in Chile’s Upcoming Elections for the Constitutional Convention
Special Series: Perspectives from Law StudentsJ.D. Student Contribution –William Skewes-Cox, 3L, Georgetown University Law Center On April 10th and 11th, 2021, Chile will hold elections to select the 155 members of the Constitutional Convention that will write the country’s new constitution.
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Lula is Free: The Brazilian Supreme Court’s Habeas Decision and the 2022 Election
—Felipe Oliveira de Sousa, Center for Law, Behaviour and Cognition (CLBC), Ruhr-Universität Bochum On March 8, 2021, Judge Edson Fachin from the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) made a decision that might decisively affect the course of the next presidential elections in Brazil, in 2022.
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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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The Blurred Line Between Law and Politics: The Supreme Court of Nepal Blocks a Parliamentary Dissolution
—Mara Malagodi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] On 23 February 2021, the Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of Nepal handed down its long-awaited judgment in the controversial case…
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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 scholarly…
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Beyond Oversight. Advancing Societal Constitutionalism in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
— Angelo Jr Golia, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Public Comparative Law and International Law, Heidelberg. Facebook’s Oversight Board (OB) has sparked great interest in an already rich debate over the constitutionalisation digital spaces. The establishment of a non-state adjudicator with jurisdiction over the freedom of speech exercised on FB (2.8 billion monthly…
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Call for Papers | Caribbean Law Review | “Racialisation and Racism”
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What’s New in Public Law
–Maja Sahadžić, Guest Professor and Research Fellow (University of Antwerp) 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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The Straw that Broke the Back of the Constitution? When Quantity Transforms to Quality
—Yaniv Roznai, IDC Herzliya, Harry Radzyner Law School* On October 27, 2020, an extended bench of the Israeli Supreme Court held a hearing in HCJ 2905/20 et al. Regarding the Basic Law: Government, Amendment No. 8 and the Temporary Order (the Alternation of Government), a hearing that was broadcast live.