Category: Developments

—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Earlier this year in June, the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada, announced her retirement effective December 15, 2017. This week–the week prior to her retirement–I-CONnect will host a special symposium in honor of Chief Justice McLachlin, for whom I had the privilege of serving as a law clerk…

Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Nigerian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Solomon Ukhuegbe, Department of Public Law, University of Benin, Nigeria; Ph.D.

Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Romanian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Simina Elena Tănăsescu, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Bucharest, and Bianca Selejan-Guțan, Ph.D.,

Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Icelandic constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, Reykjavik University School of Law, and Anna Lísa Ingólfsdóttir I.

—Maja Sahadžić, Ph.D. Researcher (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.

Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Malaysian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Jaclyn LC Neo, Assistant Professor at National University of Singapore; Dian AH Shah, Research & Post-doctoral Fellow at National University of…

Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Indian constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. —Jayna Kothari, Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Policy Research and Ashwini Tallur, Researcher at the Centre for…

Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Kenyan constitutional law, which appears in the larger 44-country Global Review of Constitutional Law, now available here in a smaller file size for downloading and emailing. –Duncan Munabi O’kubasu, Director of the Centre for Jurisprudence & Constitutional Studies at Kabarak Law School I.

—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In “Five Questions” here at I-CONnect, we invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. This edition of “Five Questions” features Patricia Popelier, Professor of Law at the University of Antwerp.