Author: Richard Albert
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Video Interview: The Design of the Iraqi Constitution Featuring Haider Ala Hamoudi
–Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In this latest installment of our video interview series at I-CONnect, I interview Haider Ala Hamoudi on the Iraqi Constitution. I conducted the interview from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where I am serving as a visiting scholar for the month of July.
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The Right to Vote of Hungarian Citizens Living Abroad
—Eszter Bodnár, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary Péter and Pál were neighbors in Luxembourg. Péter was member of the Hungarian minority in Romania and arrived in Luxembourg in 2008 to work there at an international company. Due to the favorable new rules, he obtained Hungarian citizenship in 2010.
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What’s New in Comparative Public Law
–Angelique Devaux, French Licensed Attorney (Notaire) In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in comparative 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 comparative public law blogosphere.
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The US Same-Sex Marriage Decision: Unconstitutional Constitutional Change?
—Mikołaj Barczentewicz, DPhil in Law Candidate, University of Oxford Much will be written about Obergefell v Hodges, the momentous decision of the US Supreme Court endorsing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, but in this short blog post I will limit myself to one aspect of the judgment: does it constitute unconstitutional constitutional change?
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Call for Papers–Symposium on Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes–Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
The New Zealand Centre for Public Law at Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law in partnership with The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) and Boston College Law School invite submissions for Symposium on Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes Victoria University of Wellington, Faculty of Law Thursday & Friday, May 19-20, 2016 The New Zealand…
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What’s New in Comparative Public Law
–Mohamed Abdelaal, Alexandria University (Egypt) In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in comparative 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 comparative public law blogosphere.
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The Greek Crisis–A Symptom of the EU’s Constitutional Malaise
—Nicole Scicluna, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), University of Birmingham The euro crisis started in Greece and to Greece it returned. Since the Syriza government’s election in January 2015, we have seen a succession of intense and sometimes acrimonious exchanges between Greek officials and representatives of the IMF, EU and member state governments, which…
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2015 ICON·S Conference on “Public Law in an Uncertain World”–Conference Booklet Available
–Richard Albert, Boston College Law School The International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) will convene its second annual conference later this week at New York University School of Law on July 1-3, 2015. The conference theme is “Public Law in an Uncertain World.”
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What’s New in Comparative Public Law
—Rohan Alva, Jindal Global Law School Developments in Constitutional Courts The U.S. Supreme Court declared that individuals in same-sex relations have a constitutional right to marriage. The North Korean Supreme Court convicted two persons from South Korea on charges of spying against North Korea.
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Westminster in the Caribbean: The Problem of Prime Ministerial Patronage
—Dr. Derek O’Brien, Reader in Law, Oxford Brookes University St Kitts and Nevis is the smallest federation in the world. Even by Commonwealth Caribbean standards it is tiny, with a population of just over 50,000 and a combined land mass of just over 100 square miles.