Category: Developments
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What’s New in Public Law
–Nausica Palazzo, Ph.D. researcher in Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Trento 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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What’s New in Public Law
–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.
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Constitutional Amendments in Georgia: Towards Parliamentarism
—Malkhaz Nakashidze, Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Boston College Law School; Assocoate Professor, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University School of Law On December 15, 2016, the Parliament of Georgia created the State Constitutional Commission.[1] The aim of the Commission was to elaborate the Draft law on revision of the Constitution of Georgia in the interest of the long-term democratic development…
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Symposium on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform” in Pisa, Italy
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Giuseppe Martinico (Sant’Anna), Antonia Baraggia (Milan), Cristina Fasone (LUISS) and I are convening a symposium on “The Constitution of Canada: History, Evolution, Influence and Reform” at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy on Wednesday, May 24, 2017.
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What’s New in Public Law
–Vicente F. Benítez R., Constitutional Law Professor, Universidad de La Sabana (Colombia) and LL.M. student at NYU 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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“Constitutional Dismemberment” and Political Crisis in Brazil: Populism in Sight?
—Juliano Zaiden Benvindo, University of Brasília Jon Elster once wrote that “… the task of constitution-making generally emerges in conditions that are likely to work against good constitution-making.”[1] Passion – as he puts it – prevails over reason in such turbulent circumstances.
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Conference on “The Separation of Powers: A Global Constitutional Dialogue” at the University of Milan, May 22, 2017
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Antonia Baraggia (Milan), Luca Vanoni (Milan), Cristina Fasone (LUISS) and I are convening a conference on “The Separation of Powers: A Global Constitutional Dialogue.” We will gather at the University of Milan on Monday, May 22, 2017, at Sala Napoleonica, via Sant’Antonio 12.
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What’s New in Public Law
—Mohamed Abdelaal, Assistant Professor, Alexandria University Faculty 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 the public law blogosphere.
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Considering the First Phase of Ireland’s Citizen Assembly
—Eoin Carolan, University College Dublin Last weekend, Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly issued its recommendations on the first of the topics which the Houses of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament) asked it to consider: the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment, which was approved in a referendum in 1983, inserted a new Article 40.
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Conference on “Imposed Constitutions: Aspects of Imposed Constitutionalism”
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Xenophon Contiades (President of the Centre for European Constitutional Law, Convenor of the Research Group on Constitution-Making and Constitutional Change in the IACL) and Alkmene Fotiadou (Centre for European Constitutional Law) are once again hosting a conference on an important and provocative subject.