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  • I-CONnect Symposium – Peopling Constitutional Law: Revisiting ‘Constitutional Ethnography’ in the Twenty-First Century

    —Deepa Das Acevedo, Associate Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law On October 14, 2022, the University of Alabama School of Law hosted a symposium centered on “constitutional ethnography”—a term coined almost twenty years ago by Kim Lane Scheppele to describe “the study of the central legal elements of politics using methods that…

  • The Legislative Imposition of Positive Obligations to Fulfil the Right to Housing: The Compulsory Lease of Vacant Dwellings in Portugal

    —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.] Facing increasing social contestation due to the escalating inflationary pressure and the detrimental consequences that several years of austerity and budgetary restrictions have produced on the welfare state, the Portuguese Government presented an…

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Nicola Abate, PhD Candidate, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona —Recep Orhun Kılıç, PhD Student, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli 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…

  • What’s New in Public Law

    –Neslihan Çetin, PhD Candidate (University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) –Sonder Li, LL.M. (King’s College London) 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…

  • What’s New in Public Law

    –Amir Cahane, PhD student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem –Carolina Gomide de Araujo, Master’s student, University of São Paulo 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…

  • Bangladesh One Step Closer to Adopting the Doctrine of Proportionality?

    —Nafiz Ahmed, LL.M. (University of Cambridge); Lecturer, Department of Law, North South University, Dhaka The Supreme Court of Bangladesh (SCBD) has long practiced using the Wednesbury unreasonableness principle to judge the legality of administrative actions and delegated legislation. The Court uses the Wednesbury principle as a tool for substantive judicial review of administrative actions.

  • Free Academics without Academic Freedom?

    —Balázs Majtényi, Eötvös Lorand University (ELTE) Faculty of Social Sciences. Hungary is a land of unfulfilled promises, as it is a member state of the EU and has ratified almost all international human rights documents related to academic freedom. Moreover, the country is located in a geographical region, in Eastern-Central-Europe, where academic freedom has been…

  • The “scientific reasonableness” doctrine in the Italian Constitutional Court’s decisions on mandatory vaccinations

    —Micol Pignataro, P.h.D. student in Constitutional Law, University of Bologna, Italy. As we are leaving behind what appears to have been one of the greatest collective traumas our generations have endured in the most recent years, constitutional adjudicators are increasingly engaging with issues concerning the legitimacy of the measures that have been adopted by national…

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Surbhi Karwa, Lecturer, Jindal Global Law School, India —Yacine Ben Chaabane Mousli, Master’s student, University Paris Panthéon-Assas 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…

  • What’s New in Public Law

    —Leigha Crout, PhD Candidate at King’s College London & William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin 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.