Category: Developments
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What’s New in Public Law
–Vicente F. Benítez R., JSD student at NYU and Constitutional Law Professor at Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) 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…
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India’s Supreme Court Expands Freedom
—Menaka Guruswamy, Research Scholar and Lecturer, Columbia Law School and Advocate, Supreme Court of India [This article was originally published in the New York Times on September 10, 2017.] On Aug. 24, the Supreme Court of India, in a rare unanimous judgment, declared privacy a constitutional right.
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What’s New in Public Law
[Editor’s Note: Republished with a correction: our description of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany’s action on the rent-control law was not quite clear. To confirm, the FCC has not yet rendered a decision on the constitutionality of the law. We are grateful to our readers for bringing our attention to this point.
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Abe’s Japan—Another Case of Abusive Constitutionalism
–Tokujin Matsudaira, Kanagawa University, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reportedly going to dissolve the House of Representatives (Shugiin), the lower house of the Japanese Diet, for a snap general election. [1] The ruling coalition closed the Diet this June amid an outburst of scandals surrounding Mr.
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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…
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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.
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Developments in Slovenian Constitutional Law: The Year 2016 in Review
Editor’s Note: Today we publish the 2016 Report on Slovenian 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. –Matej Avbelj,* Jan Zobec,** Katarina Vatovec*** I.
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Save the Date–Conference on “Rewriting the Canadian Constitution”–Boston College Law School–October 19-20, 2017
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School All are welcome to Boston College Law School for a major conference on October 19-20, 2017 to mark the 150th anniversary of Confederation in Canada. The program, entitled “Rewriting the Canadian Constitution,” will feature four panels and a moderated luncheon discussion with the Hon.
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A Constitutional Crisis in Guatemala?
–Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval, Melbourne Law School On August 29th 2017, the Guatemalan Constitutional Court declared without effect a Presidential declaration that expelled the Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG in the Spanish acronym). The events leading to this judgment consisted of a series of twists and turns, like those you…
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Triple Talaq: Still Not Unconstitutional in India
–Sachin Dhawan, Assistant Professor, Jindal Global Law School, India The famous American lawyer and judge Thurgood Marshall used to tell his judicial clerks that the most important principle in law is the rule of five. In its absence, all else was irrelevant.