Author: Richard Albert
-
What’s New in Public Law
–Nausica Palazzo, Ph.D. researcher in Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Trento 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.
-
Be Careful What You Wish For – A Short Comment on “Mandatory Voting as a Tool to Combat the New Populism”
–Ursus Eijkelenberg, International Institute for the Sociology of Law In a recent piece on ICONnect, the question was raised whether mandatory voting could be a potential “silver bullet” to dethrone autocratic populists. According to the authors, “new populist forces would face electoral defeat if the large number of generally disillusioned but politically fatigued and inactive voters…
-
Book Review: Francisca Pou Giménez on Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna Erdman and Bernard M. Dickens’s “Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Francisca Pou Giménez reviews Rebecca J. Cook, Joanna Erdman and Bernard M. Dickens’s Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).] —Francisca Pou Giménez, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) This is an edited book, and an especially mature species of the…
-
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.
-
Constitutional Amendments in Georgia: Towards Parliamentarism
—Malkhaz Nakashidze, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Boston College Law School; Assocoate Professor, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University School of Law On December 15, 2016, the Parliament of Georgia created the State Constitutional Commission.[1] The aim of the Commission was to elaborate the Draft law on revision of the Constitution of Georgia in the interest of the long-term democratic development…
-
Symposium on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform” in Pisa, Italy
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Giuseppe Martinico (Sant’Anna), Antonia Baraggia (Milan), Cristina Fasone (LUISS) and I are convening a symposium on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform” at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
-
What’s New in Public Law
–Vicente F. Benítez R., Constitutional Law Professor, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) and LL.M. 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…
-
Conference on “The Separation of Powers: A Global Constitutional Dialogue” at the University of Milan, May 22, 2017
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Antonia Baraggia (Milan), Luca Vanoni (Milan), Cristina Fasone (LUISS) and I are convening a conference on “The Separation of Powers: A Global Constitutional Dialogue.” We will gather at the University of Milan on Monday, May 22, 2017, at Sala Napoleonica, via Sant’Antonio 12.
-
What’s New in Public Law
—Mohamed Abdelaal, Assistant Professor, Alexandria University Faculty of 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 books and articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.
-
Considering the First Phase of Ireland’s Citizen Assembly
—Eoin Carolan, University College Dublin Last weekend, Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly issued its recommendations on the first of the topics which the Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) asked it to consider: the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment, which was approved in a referendum in 1983, inserted a new Article 40.