Category: Developments
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Why Ethiopia’s Crisis Needs a New Constitutional Settlement
—Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg [Editors’ Note: This is one of our biweekly ICONnect columns. For more information on our four columnists for 2021, please see here.] In my first column, back in January 2021, I wrote about Ethiopia’s constitutional crisis.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Vini Singh, Assistant Professor & Doctoral Research Scholar, National Law University Jodhpur, India. 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…
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Indian Anti-Conversion Laws Have No Place in a Constitutional Democracy
—Kruthika R, LLM Student in Human Rights, Central European University, Vienna Three federal states in India have passed laws that criminalise religious conversion for marriage without a prior state permission. And mandates a cumbersome procedure to obtain permission from the state to convert to another religion for marriage.
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The Difference Between Lula and Bolsonaro: What is at Stake?
—Thomas Bustamante, Professor of Philosophy of Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais and Global Research Fellow, New York University The Brazilian Worker’s Party has just released a jingle to promote former Brazilian president Lula da Silva on his 76th birthday, which anticipates the tone of Lula’s campaign for the 2022 presidential elections.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, Master Student at the University of Coimbra – Portugal; Postgraduate in Constitutional Law at Brazilian Academy of Constitutional Law 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…
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Governance by Memorandum: Constitutional Soft Law in Malaysia
—Andrew Harding and Dian AH Shah, National University Singapore Faculty of Law Beginning in early 2020 Malaysia has experienced an extraordinary period of political instability that has tested many constitutional norms to the limit and perhaps beyond the limit. Aspects of this instability have been discussed by us in this blog previously.[1]
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What’s New in Public Law
–Maja Sahadžić, Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, University of Antwerp 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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Roundtable Discussions on the State of Constitutionalism in the World | November 9-19, 2021
—Richard Albert, Professor of World Constitutions and Director of Constitutional Studies, The University of Texas at Austin; Allan Rock Visiting Professor of Law, University of Ottawa We recently published the fifth edition of the Global Review of Constitutional Law, an annual publication bringing together dozens of jurisdiction-specific reports written by scholars and judges—often in collaboration—on…
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Constitutional Boot-strapping in Chile?
—Benjamin Alemparte, Duke Law School, and Joshua Braver, University of Wisconsin Law School Three months into its deliberations, on October 7th, the Chilean Constitutional Convention finished approving its internal regulations. Most significantly, the Convention infringed its legal mandate by tampering with the threshold for its voting rules.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Robert Rybski, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw, Rector’s Plenipotentiary for Environment and Sustainable Development. 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…