Category: Developments
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The 2022 I·CONnect Global Review of Constitutional Law | Report on Mexico
—Alfonso Herrera García, Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad Panamericana (Mexico City); Irene Spigno, General Director, Inter-American Academy of Human Rights; Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Assistant Professor, University of Silesia in Katowice I. INTRODUCTION On November 7, 2022, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued the judgment in the case of Tzompaxtle Tecpile et al.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Master in Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra, Portugal. Lawyer. 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…
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Call for Papers: ICON-S Conference 2024
CALL FOR PANELS, PAPERS AND INTEREST GROUPS The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence We look forward to welcoming you for our 2024 ICON•S Annual Conference. The conference will feature panels in all areas of public law, and all members of ICON•S are invited to make their submissions in their areas of…
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Portugal’s Proposal for a One-Term Limit on Presidents
—Teresa Violante, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2023 columnists, see here.] Politico recently revealed that the French President expressed frustration with the constitutional clause that prevents him from being reelected for a third term, describing it as “damnable bullshit”.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Maja Sahadžić, Assistant Professor (Utrecht University), Visiting Professor (University of Antwerp), Senior Research Fellow (Law Institute in B&H), and Affiliated Scholar (CUHK). 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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Human rights and elections: the case of the “Semilla” party in Guatemala
–Javier Urízar Montes de Oca, International Service for Human Rights It was nothing short of extraordinary: the small opposition party, “Semilla”, somehow managed to win the third most seats in Parliament and the presidential election, despite being a relatively unknown progressive party in a fundamentally conservative country.
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The Indonesian Constitutional Court and the Subversion of Democracy: The Court Removes Minimum Age Requirements for the President’s Son
–Stefanus Hendrianto, Pontifical Gregorian University In the last three years, a major question of speculation in Indonesian politics has been whether President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo will stay in power longer after the end of his second term. The first speculation was that Jokowi would try to push for a constitutional amendment allowing him to run…
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Call for Applications — Emile Noël Fellowship Applications for New York University School of Law
EMILE NOEL GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS FOR NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW *** NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE 2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR New York University School of Law is currently accepting applications for the following fellowships: Emile Noël Fellowship Program Deadline: January 15, 2024 The principal objective of the Emile Noël Fellowship program is scholarship and the…
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What’s New in Public Law
—Irina Criveț, PhD Candidate Public Law, Koç University 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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What’s New in Public Law
—Anubhav Kumar, Advocate & Researcher, Supreme Court of India In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books, articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.