Category: Editorial
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Christmas Reading? Christmas Gifts? Some Suggestions from the Editor-in-Chief
—J.H.H. Weiler, Editorial Director, ICON; President and Secretary General, European University Institute [ICON Editors’ Choices for New Year Readings and Gifts: ICON’s Book Review Editor, Isabel Feichtner, invited our Board members to reflect on the books that have had a significant impact on them this year.
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Scottish independence and the European Union (I·CON 12, Issue 3: Editorial)
—J. H. H. Weiler, Editorial Director, I·CON; President and Secretary General, European University Institute The following Editorial was written before the voting in Scotland took place. It expresses a negative view regarding the prospects of Scottish independence written from both a Euro-prudential perspective and a more general normative one.
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I.CON’s current issue (Table of Contents)
I.CON Volume 12 Issue 3 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Robert Alexy, Formal principles: Some replies to critics Jan Komárek, National constitutional courts in the European constitutional democracy Nicole Scicluna, Politicization without democratization: How the Eurozone crisis is transforming EU law and politics Jeff King, Two ironies about American exceptionalism over social rights Symposium:…
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Fateful Elections? Investing in the Future of Europe (I·CON 12, Issue 2: Editorial)
—J. H. H. Weiler, Editorial Director, I·CON; President and Secretary General, European University Institute In a recent Editorial[1] I speculated on the potential transformative effect that the 2014 elections to the European Parliament might have on the democratic fortunes of Europe.
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I.CON’s current issue (Table of Contents)
I.CONVolume 12 Issue 2Table of Contents Editorial Articles Maurice Adams, Disabling constitutionalism. Can the politics of the Belgian Constitution be explained? Greg Taylor, Convention by consensus: Constitutional conventions in Germany Eric C. Ip, The democratic foundations of judicial review under authoritarianism: Theory and evidence from Hong Kong Symposium: Multipolar Administrative Law Sabino Cassese, Giulio…
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I.CON’s current issue (Table of Contents)
I.CON Volume 12 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Ruth Rubio-Marín, The achievement of female suffrage in Europe: On women´s citizenship Günter Frankenberg, Human rights and the belief in a just world Aoife Nolan, Holding non-state actors to account for constitutional economic and social rights violations: Experiences and lessons from South Africa and Ireland…
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Comparative methodology in I.CON’s recent issue
I.CON’s recent issue opens with two theoretical papers, each employing a comparative methodology in the theorization of constitutional ideas and practices. Focusing on originalist approaches in the United States and Australia, Lael Weis illustrates how a comparative work can advance our debates on constitutional interpretation.
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I.CON’s current issue (Table of Contents)
I.CON Volume 11 Issue 4 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Lael K. Weis, What comparativism tells us about originalism Scott Stephenson, Constitutional reengineering: Dialogue’s migration from Canada to Australia Mónica Brito Vieira and Filipe Carreira da Silva, Getting rights right: Explaining social rights constitutionalization in revolutionary Portugal Reflections on Comparative Public Law: The German…
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Join I·CON: Debate!
In our current issue we feature an I·CON: Debate! on strategic reasoning in the Israeli Supreme Court. In a landmark case, the Court decided to set a principle while delaying a concrete ruling until the legislature fleshes out particular legal arrangements in accordance with this principle.
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I·CON 11 Issue 3: Editorial
The Arab Fall? Spring is meant to be followed by summer, when buds turn into flowers, when promise and hope turn into reality. This kind of summer seems to have skipped Egypt and the Fall is upon us. The only thing that I find surprising, or perhaps not so surprising, is the hand wringing over…