Category: 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…

I.CON  Volume 11 Issue 3  Table of Contents     Editorial Articles  Virgílio Afonso da Silva, Deciding without deliberating Panu Minkkinen, Political constitutionalism vs. political constitutional theory: Law, power and politics     Symposium: Constitutional Transitions in the Middle East Sujit Choudhry, Introduction Mohammad Fadel, Judicial legitimacy and the Legitimacy of Islamic State Law Clark…

I·CON Volume 11 Issue 2 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Niels Petersen. Avoiding the common-wisdom fallacy: The role of social sciences in constitutional adjudication Benjamin L. Berger. Children of two logics: A way into Canadian constitutional culture Carlos Bernal. Unconstitutional constitutional amendments in the case study of Colombia: An analysis of the justification and meaning…

  In our current issue we feature an I·CON: Debate! on the ECtHR decision in Lautsi v. Italy. We are happy to provide free access to this debate for I·CONnect readers and to invite you to join the debate in this forum.

I have invited Ran Hirschl, who has recently joined our Board of Editors, to write the Editorial for the first issue of 2013. His contribution follows below. From comparative constitutional law to comparative constitutional studies Eighty years ago, John H. Wigmore, author of the seminal Panorama of the World’s Legal Systems, characterized the comparative law journals…

I·CON Volume 11 Issue 1 Table of Contents Editorial Articles Or Bassok and Yoav Dotan, Solving the countermajoritarian difficulty? Asem Khalil, Beyond the written constitution: Constitutional crisis of, and the institutional deadlock in, the Palestinian political system as entrenched in the basic law Adam Shinar and Anna Su, Religious law as foreign law in constitutional…

I have invited my co-Editor-in-Chief, Michel Rosenfeld to write the Editorial for our last issue for 2012. His contribution follows below. Individual rights and the excesses of individualism: Heading back to a Hobbesian state of nature? In Hobbes’s vision, the state of nature is one of extreme individualism leading to a war of all against…