Author: Richard Albert
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Appel à propositions–Forum de la jeune recherche en droit comparé–25 juillet 2018–Fukuoka, Japon
Appel à propositions Forum de la jeune recherche en droit comparé XXe Congrès international Académie internationale de droit comparé Fukuoka, Japon 25 juillet 2018 Les jeunes chercheurs sont invités à participer au tout premier Forum de la jeune recherche en droit comparé, qui se tiendra à Fukuoka, au Japon, le mercredi 25 juillet…
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Symposium–Part 3 of 7: The Triumph of Israeli Populism
[Editor’s Note: This is the third of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Alon Harel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Populism is a very popular word these days.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Maja Sahadžić, Ph.D. Researcher (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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Special Symposium–Part 2 of 7: Constitutional Capture in Israel
[Editor’s Note: This is the second of 7 parts in our I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” The introduction to the symposium is available here.] —Gila Stopler, College of Law and Business, Israel In recent years the term Constitutional Capture has been used by Jan Werner Muller and others to describe a…
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Introduction to I-CONnect/ICON-S-IL Symposium: Constitutional Capture in Israel?
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to partner with the Israeli Chapter of ICON-S (ICON-S-IL) to feature a special symposium on the subject of “Constitutional Capture in Israel?” Every day this week–from Sunday, August 20 to Saturday, August 26–we will feature a post as part of this symposium.
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Five Questions with Kim Lane Scheppele
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In “Five Questions” here at I-CONnect, we invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. This edition of “Five Questions” features Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values…
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Japan Supreme Court Limits Police GPS Surveillance, Citing Constitution Article 35
–Lawrence Repeta, Member, Japan Civil Liberties Union and former Professor, Meiji University On March 15 of this year, the Supreme Court of Japan issued a rare decision that limits the authority of the police to conduct surveillance operations. The case involved the placement of GPS tracking devices on the vehicles of surveillance targets.
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Developments in German Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 report on German constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country 2016 Global Review of Constitutional Law. The entire 2016 Global Review is now available in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014378.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Vicente F. Benítez R., Constitutional Law Professor, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) and JSD student at NYU 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…
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Developments in Italian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
[Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Italian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014378.] –Pietro Faraguna (LUISS University of Rome), Michele Massa (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milano), Diletta Tega (University of Bologna), coordinated…