Category: Developments
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What’s New in Public Law
—Leigha Crout, PhD Candidate at King’s College London & Rule of Law Fellow at Stanford Law School —Tina Nicole Nelly Youan, PhD Candidate at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 Université In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law.
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Chile’s Constitutional Proposal Represents a More Radical Turn into Neoliberal Constitutional Politics
–Benjamín Alemparte, academic and researcher, University of Chile The recent election in Argentina of Javier Milei as new President has brought a renewed attention to the southern American region in terms of a more radical turn into libertarian economic policies. Milei’s candidature, a Thatcher-lover according to the Financial Times, suggested an ultra-neoliberal “shock” including, among…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Silvio Roberto Vinceti, Research Fellow (Post-Doc), Department of Law, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia 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…
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Constitutional Dialogue or Crisis between Congress and the Supreme Court: A New Equilibrium in Brazil’s Coalition Presidentialism?
—Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer, Associate Professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, Associate Professor at the University of Brasília A fascinating discussion is currently underway in Brazil, whose Supreme Court is known as one of the most stable and interventionist in political affairs in Latin America.
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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.