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Virtual Symposium: Reflections on the ICON-S Mexico Book “Constitutional Justice in Times of Change”
Next Tuesday, April 28, a group of Latin American legal scholars will be discussing the recent book prepared by the ICON-S Mexican Chapter and sponsored by the Mexican Supreme Court, entitled “Constitutional Justice in Times of Change,” edited by Roberto Niembro and Sergio Verdugo.
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The Role of Constitutional Justice in Times of Crisis: The Case of Ecuador
—Andrés Cervantes, Pompeu Fabra University As I write these lines, I am thinking about the complex situation that Ecuador is currently facing because of the national emergency declared over the aggressive progression of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, some of the thoughts expressed here may be also relevant to other Latin-American nations as the Global South…
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Book Review: Urbina and Recabarren on Barber’s “The Principles of Constitutionalism”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, we feature a review of N.W. Barber, The Principles of Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2018). –Francisco J. Urbina and Clemente Recabarren, Faculty of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile In his book The Principles of Constitutionalism, N.W.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Chiara Graziani, Ph.D. Candidate and Research Fellow in Constitutional Law, University of Genoa (Italy) 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…
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Book Review: Lorianne Updike Toler on “Constitution Writing, Religion, and Democracy” (Asli Ü. Bâli and Hanna Lerner eds.)
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Lorianne Updike Toler reviews Constitution Writing, Religion, and Democracy (Asli Ü. Bâli and Hanna Lerner, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2017).] —Lorianne Updike Toler, Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy edited by Asli Ü.
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Malaysia’s 2020 Government Crisis: Revealing the New Emperor’s Clothes
—Yvonne Tew, Georgetown University Law Center[1] [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. For more information about our four columnists for 2020, please click here.] In 2018, Malaysia was hailed as a story of democracy’s triumph. In a historic national election, voters ousted the Barisan Nasional ruling coalition, ending its six decades…
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States’ Reactions to COVID-19 Pandemic: An Overview of the Belgian Case
–Frédéric Bouhon, Andy Jousten, Xavier Miny, and Emmanuel Slautsky. Corresponding Author: Emmanuel Slautsky (Emmanuel.Slautsky@ulb.be) For the past weeks, national and international news has been dominated by a single subject: a large part of the world is affected by the pandemic of the infectious disease called Covid-19, which is due to the spread of a coronavirus.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Susan Achury, Miami 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.
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Special Undergraduate Series–The Rot Runs Deeper: Citizenship at Odds with Religion
Special Series: Perspectives from Undergraduate Law StudentsLL.B. Student Contribution –Anant Sangal, IV Year, B.A., LL.B. (Hons.), National Law University, Delhi In the first half of December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed a discriminatory legislation, which provides citizenship to a class of people on the basis of their religion.
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The Collision between Bolsonaro and the Sovereignty of Science: The Courts Step In
—João Vitor Cardoso, University of Chile Faculty of Law[1] Introduction On Saturday, March 28, a federal court in Rio de Janeiro banned the Brazilian government from disseminating propaganda against confinement measures aimed at controlling the coronavirus pandemic. The federal judge gave the government 24 hours to publish an official statement explaining that its “Brazil Cannot…