Author: Richard Albert
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Developments in Cameroonian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Cameroonian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Charles Manga Fombad, Professor of Law, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria,…
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Judicial Review of Peace Amendments in Colombia: Towards Supraconstitutional Rules and Plurality Opinions?
—Vicente F. Benítez R., JSD student at NYU and Constitutional Law Professor at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) In a decision recently analyzed here on I-CONnect by Gonzalo Ramirez-Cleves, the Colombian Constitutional Court upheld a constitutional amendment that purports to shield the peace agreement between the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian Government.
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Special Discount–New Book–“Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution”
I-CONnect is pleased to share a special 20% discount code for our readers interested in a new volume to mark the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 Constitution: Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution (Cambridge University Press, November 2017), edited by Richard Albert, Boston College Law School, and David R.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Sandeep Suresh, Research Associate, Jindal Global Law School 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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Developments in Bulgarian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Bulgarian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Ivo Gruev, DPhil Candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, and Dr.
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Invitation to Friends of I-CONnect: Dissertation Defense on Informal Constitutional Change
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Friends of I-CONnect are invited to Leiden University Law School for the dissertation defense of Reijer Passchier, a frequent contributor to I-CONnect. The dissertation supervisor is Professor Dr. Wim Voermans. The defense will be held on November 9, 2017, at 13h45 in the Groot Auditorum at Leiden University.
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Constitutional Amendment Significance: A Survey
—George Tsebelis, Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan “…Amending clause…describes and regulates…amending power. This is the most important part of the constitution.” (John W. Burgess, Political Science and Constitutional Law 1890: 137). If amendment rules are the most important part of the constitution, the frequency of constitutional amendments should be inversely related…
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Developments in Belgian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Belgian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Luc Lavrysen (Judge at the Belgian Constitutional Court and Full Professor at Ghent University), Jan Theunis (Associate Professor at Hasselt University and Law…
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Book Review: Jeffrey Goldsworthy on Se-shauna Wheatle’s “Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Jeffrey Goldsworthy reviews Se-shauna Wheatle’s Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication (Oxford: Hart 2017).] —Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University, Adjunct Professor of Law, The University of Adelaide Se-shauna Wheatle’s book concerns judicial reasoning in human rights cases that purports to be based on “unwritten” or “implied”…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Simon Drugda, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (UK) 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.