Category: Analysis
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Bangladesh in Stasis: No Way Out Without a New Constitution?
—M A Sayeed, UNSW Sydney, Australia/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, and Lima Aktar, Thomas More Law School, ACU, Melbourne/Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh[1] Constitutional crisis may occur for many factors, but when it triggers constitutional transformation, it becomes stasis (Alberto Esu). In Greek, stasis means civil/political unrest, disharmony and, to its most extreme, the breakdown of the constitutional system…
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The Anna Karenina Principle and Democratic Erosion
—Miguel Schor, Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Drake University Constitutional Law Center, and Class of 1977 Distinguished Scholar [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Leo Tolstoy begins Anna Karenina by observing that happy families are all alike whereas every unhappy family is…
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Global Law and the Black Holes (That Would Like to Gobble it up)
–Giuliano Amato[*] 1. One of the many effects of globalization that marked the beginning of the new century was the awareness that, in a myriad different ways, the process had spawned a global legal space; not just a potential space, but a space increasingly filled with regulations, decisions, certifications, and transactions coming from a multiplicity…
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Feminist Constitutionalism: Part VIII – The Future of Feminist Constitutionalism: Challenges and Opportunities
This is the eighth and final essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil’, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Feminist Constitutionalism: Part VII – Case Studies II: Landmark Feminist Constitutional Decisions
This is the seventh essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil’, which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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What’s New in Public Law
—Nicola Abate, Ph.D. Candidate in Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 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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Local Authorities as Guarantors of the Rule of Law: Recent Developments in the Council of Europe
—Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] Local government is usually absent from the theoretical debates on the pillars of constitutional law, such as human rights, separation of powers, rule of law.
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Feminist Constitutionalism: Part VI — The Woman as Subject of Fundamental Rights in the Jurisprudence of the Brazilian Supreme Court
This is the sixth essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin, as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil,’ which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Feminist Constitutionalism: Part V – From Paper to Reality: Implementing Feminist Constitutional Principles
This is the fifth essay in a special eight-part series on Feminist Constitutionalism, organized by Melina Girardi Fachin, as part of the project ‘Transforming Judicial Outcomes for Women in Canada and Brazil,’ which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).