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What’s New in Public Law
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—Silvia Talavera Lodos, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced Studies Sant’Anna 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. To submit…
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Bangladesh’s Apolitical Constitution-making Initiative: Silver Lining or Slippery Slope?
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—Kawser Ahmed, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Adjunct Professor, Department of Law, Bangladesh University of Professionals The Long and the Short On 05 August 2024, in the face of a massive Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (AdSM) protesting the discriminatory quota system in government jobs – which later escalated into demands for her resignation – the then…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra 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…
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The ‘Intermestic’ Transitional Constitution of South Sudan
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— Mark Deng, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Melbourne Law School Every constitution drafted since at least the 18th century has this feature. What is it? If you said ‘constitutional borrowing’, give yourself a pat on the back! South Sudan’s Transitional Constitution is no exception in this respect. Constitutional borrowing is evidenced in the Transitional Constitution…
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South Korean Constitutional Court Upholds Impeachment of President Yoon for Abusing Emergency Power
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—Yoomin Won, Seoul National University School of Law [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On April 4, 2025, South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol in a unanimous decision. This ruling marks a pivotal moment in the country’s democratic…
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How to Judge a Judge: Balancing Accountability, Independence and Fairness
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–Ria Mohammed-Davidson, LLB (Hons), LEC (Hons), LLM (Harvard), Chambers of Mr. Rolston F. Nelson, S.C. In The Judicial and Legal Service Commission v Marcia Ayers-Caesar, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (‘JCPC’) was confronted with the eight-year constitutional controversy surrounding the elevation of the Chief Magistrate to the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Benjamin Nurkić, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law University of Tuzla and a member of the Constitutional Committee of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include a selection of links to…
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Rule of Law or Rule of Trump? How the United States is Defining Canada’s Election
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—Dr. Alexandra Flynn, Associate Professor and Director, Housing Research Collaborative; Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] These days, Canadian media is entirely consumed with President Trump’s latest dramas, from tariffs to the unilateral…
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Call for Proposals: New Directions in Scholarship
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The Committee on New Directions in Scholarship of the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) invites book proposals to be considered for the “New Scholarship Showcase” – a series of virtual events, envisaged as interviews with authors, dedicated to new books in public law. We welcome books from scholars of all ranks around the world,…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Yassin Abdalla Abdelkarim, Judge at Sohag Elementary Court, Egypt; LLM, Leeds Beckett University, 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…
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The Resilience Predicament
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—Goran Selanec, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] Several European states recently confronted the challenge of potentially serious disruption of their constitutional courts. Just in the last few months that was the case in Italy and Croatia and in…
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Introducing the 2025 ICONnect Columnists
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The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2025: Goran Selanec, Alexandra Flynn, Yoomin Won, and Jorge González-Jácome. We are certain that they will provide a diverse and fascinating set of voices for our readers, representing a range of regional and substantive areas of focus. We would also…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Dhruv Singhal, B.A. LL.B. (Hons) Candidate at National Law University, Jodhpur, India —Miracle Okoth Okumu Mudeyi, LL.B (Hons) University of Nairobi, Advocate Trainee, Kenya School of Law, Kenya 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,…
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ICON-S Chapter Proposal | Venezuela | Invitation for Comment and Participation
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–Johanna Fröhlich and Vicente Benitez, Co-Directors of Chapter Development, The International Society of Public Law The International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) has received a proposal from Victoria Capriles, Daniela Urosa, Raul Sanchez Urribarri, Ramsis Ghazzaoui & Carlos Garcia Soto to create a Venezuelan chapter of ICON-S. Please write to icons.chapterdevelopment@gmail.com and to Victoria Capriles…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Marieta Safta, Professor Phd, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania —Niels Graaf, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 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…
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Don’t Know Much about History
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—José M. de Areilza, Professor and Jean Monnet-ESADE Chair, ESADE Business School In 1960, Sam Cooke made a splash with the song “A Wonderful World.” My generation learned it years later as the soundtrack to the film Witness. The opening line, “Don’t know much about history,” came to mind a few days ago when Donald…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Alan Mauricio Jiménez Díaz, PhD. Candidate, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. —Sumit Kumar Ganguly, Visiting Faculty, Amity University, Kolkata, India. 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…
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ICON Volume 22, Issue 4: Editorial
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In this issue; In this issue—Reviews; My patria is the book: Ten good reads 2024 In this issue In our Editorial, Joseph H. H. Weiler shares his annual “Good Reads”, carefully chosen for those seeking inspiration for a gift or for a very good read at home on a lazy Sunday. Our Articles Section then…
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ICON Volume 22, Issue 4: Table of Contents
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I•CON Volume 22 Issue 4 Table of Contents Editorial: In this issue; In this issue—Reviews; My patria is the book: Ten good reads 2024 Articles Michael Karayanni, A “third camp” in Israel’s constitutional upheaval: The voice of the silent Palestinian-Arab minority Martijn W. Hesselink, Private law subjects in European mini-publics Dian A. H. Shah, Dismantling…
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What’s New in Public Law
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What’s New in Public Law –Kushagr Bakshi, SJD Candidate (University of Michigan) and Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk-cum-Research Associate (Supreme Court of India) 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…
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