Category: Developments
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South Korean Constitutional Court Upholds Impeachment of President Yoon for Abusing Emergency Power
—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.
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How to Judge a Judge: Balancing Accountability, Independence and Fairness
–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
—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.
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Rule of Law or Rule of Trump? How the United States is Defining Canada’s Election
—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
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.
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What’s New in Public Law
—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
—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
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.
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What’s New in Public Law
—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.
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ICON-S Chapter Proposal | Venezuela | Invitation for Comment and Participation
–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.