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The Constitutional Foundations of Independent Agencies: A Comparative Perspective Between the U.S. and Spain
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–José Ignacio Hernández, Visiting Scholar, Boston College Law School Introduction On May 20, 2025, in the Trump v. Wilcox case, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that may signal the end of independent agencies as they currently exist. This decision is an interlocutory judgment made during ongoing trials that question the president’s ability to…
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EU Fundamental Rights at a Crossroads: Reflections on the Charter’s 25th Anniversary
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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.] This year the EU legal order marks an important milestone: The Charter of Fundamental Rights marks its 25th anniversary. The Charter was proclaimed at the dawn of the new Millenium on December…
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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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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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How Judicial Independence is Being Undone in the Maldives
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—Shamsul Falaah, Advocate (Maldives) and independent legal scholar Introduction Although almost every government since the current Constitution has influenced, or at least tried to influence, the judiciary, this year has been one of the worst. Since the beginning of the year, there has been constant concern about the government’s growing influence over judicial independence. Unpacking…
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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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The Gandhian Constitution Was Never an Alternative
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—Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, VMRF (DU) In his recent book The Colonial Constitution, Arghya Sengupta argues that the Indian Constitution is a colonial document.[1] He arrives at this conclusion by arguing: first, the framers adopted an Indianized version of the Government of India Act 1935; second, the Constitution…
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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, Assistant Professor, SGT University, Gurugram, 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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Wildfires, Legal Geography, and the Constitution
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—Maria Tzanakopoulou, Senior lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law Amid record temperatures across Europe, the continent is once again confronted by multiple wildfire fronts. Several deaths have been reported while thousands have been evacuated. The EU has triggered its Civil Protection Mechanism to offer emergency assistance, as domestic civil protection services struggle to cope. In this post,…
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A Convenient Emergency: Perilous Times for Judicial Independence in Ecuador
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—Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, X: @PatySValarezo The notion of the judiciary’s inherent weakness, as proposed in The Federalist Papers number 78, along with Tsebelis’s idea (Tsebellis 2002) of judges as veto players ultimately absorbed by other political actors, can now be questioned in light of the many judicial decisions with significant…
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Between Imposition and Consensus: On the Sensibilities of Constitutionalism
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—Jorge González-Jacome, Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] On June 7, 2025, Colombians seemed to relive a nightmare they had experienced in the late 1980s. While delivering a speech in Bogotá, Miguel Uribe-Turbay, a presidential candidate…
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What’s New in Public Law
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–Kushagr Bakshi, SJD Candidate (University of Michigan) and Sarthak Gupta, Judicial Law Clerk (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 and articles, and blog posts from…
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Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far
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Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far —Andrea Palumbo, Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven[*] The next frontier of risk management: systemic risks in the Digital Services Act and the AI Act In the last decade, EU legislation has experienced a shift to risk-based regulation as the…
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What’s New in Public Law
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—Ashwani Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor of Law, Vinayaka Mission’s Law School, India. —Olumide Opeyemi Toyinbo, Postgraduate Student, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria. 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…
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The Failure of Impeachment in Indonesia: A Comparative View
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–Stefanus Hendrianto, Creighton University School of Law Introduction In the first six months of 2025, the Asian continent has witnessed a wave of impeachments in several nations. On April 4, 2025, President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea was removed from Office by the Constitutional Court, following his impeachment on in December 2024.[1] In the…
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North Korea in South Korean Eyes: Enemy or Reunification Partner?
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—Yoomin Won, Associate Professor, 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.] In December 2023, the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un officially announced that the two Koreas are “two hostile states,” effectively renouncing unification. North Korea’s declaration of South Korea…
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What’s New in Public Law
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–Erick Guapizaca Jiménez, SJD Candidate, University of Michigan Law School –Rajesh Ranjan, Lawyer, Researcher & former Samta (Equity) Fellow based in 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…
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Three Decades Without a Social Contract: A Call for Constitutional Adoption in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
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–Hassan Mustafa Hussein, Ph.D. in Constitutional law, Soran University, KRI August 1 is observed worldwide as World Constitution Day. On such significant occasions, it is common for major civilized nations to celebrate their greatest political achievements, usually reflected in a written or other form of constitution. This event, which may involve many historical reflections, promotes…
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Legislating in Silence: The Reform of the Brazilian Civil Code and Its Democratic Deficit
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–Anna Claudia Svoboda ,Ph.D. candidate, Pontificial Catholic University of São Paulo Brazil is currently debating the most comprehensive reform of its Civil Code since the current version came into force in 2002. The proposal aims to revise over a thousand provisions and modernize key areas of private law. The draft, already formalized as Bill 4/2025,…
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