Category: Developments
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Conference Report: Sacred/Secular Space Workshop on Law and Religion
–John Joseph Wamwara, Dooyeweerd (SJD) Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University School of Law; Law Lecturer, Moi University and Catholic University of Eastern Africa This conference, held on December 24-25, 2017, was jointly organized by Radzyner Law School at IDC Herzliya, and the the Restoring Religious Freedom Project at Emory…
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Developments in Hungarian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Hungarian 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. —Eszter Bodnár, Assistant Professor at Eötvös Loránd University; Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Angélique Devaux, Cheuvreux Notaires, Paris, France, Diplômée notaire, LL.M. Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of 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 books and articles, and blog posts from around…
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Developments in Czech Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Czech 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. —Martin Kopa, Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of Palacký University, Olomouc; Maxim Tomoszek, Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty of Palacký University,…
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The Judiciary as Second-Best Political Strategy: The Never-Ending Debate over the Presumption of Innocence in Brazil
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo & Fernando José Gonçalves Acunha, University of Brasília In February 2016, one of us wrote a post on I-CONnect focusing on the Brazilian Supreme Court’s new precedent on the presumption of innocence.[1] The decision carried out a major shift by allowing criminal sentences to be enforced once a judgment has been affirmed…
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Some Panels of Interest at the 2018 AALS Annual Meeting
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School The next edition of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools will be held in San Diego on January 3-6, 2018. There are several programs of interest to our readers. I’ve taken the liberty of identifying a few of them below.
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Special Issue of Perspectives on Federalism on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform”
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Under the leadership of Giuseppe Martinico, the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa hosted an international symposium in May 2017 to mark the Sesquicentennial of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1867. The symposium invited scholars to explore four dimensions of the Constitution of Canada: its history, evolution, influence and reform.
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Conference Report: Seventh Asian Constitutional Law Forum–And Announcing the Association for Asian Constitutional Studies
—Andrew Harding, National University of Singapore On 8 and 9 December 2017 Thammasat University Law Faculty in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted the 7th Asian Constitutional Law Forum. The ACLF has been held biennially since 2005 in various Asian cities. On this occasion it was attended by 85 scholars, and offered in panels of three or four…
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Developments in Pakistani Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Pakistani 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. —Moeen Cheema, Senior Lecturer and the Convenor of the LLM program in Law, Governance and Development, Australian National University College…
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What’s New in Public Law
–Sandeep Suresh, Research Associate (Jindal Global Law School) 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.