Category: Reviews
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Virtual Bookshelf: A Review of “The Italian Parliament in the European Union” by Nicola Lupo and Giovanni Piccirilli
—Richard Albert, The University of Texas at Austin In the most recent installment in the new Hart Series on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe, Nicola Lupo (LUISS Rome) and Giovanni Piccirilli (LUISS Rome) bring us an edited volume on The Italian Parliament in the European Union (Oxford: Hart 2017).
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Book Review: Cesare Cavallini & Oreste Pollicino on Fritjof Capra & Ugo Mattei’s “The Ecology of Law”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Cesare Cavallini & Oreste Pollicino review Fritjof Capra & Ugo Mattei’s book on The Ecology of Law (BK 2015)] —Cesare Cavallini, Full Professor, Bocconi University & Oreste Pollicino, Full Professor, Bocconi University Why should two scholars of civil procedure and constitutional law be interested in reading about the…
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Book Review: Katalin Kelemen on András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre & Giulio Itzcovich’s “Comparative Constitutional Reasoning”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Katalin Kelemen reviews András Jakab, Arthur Dyevre & Giulio Itzcovich’s book on Comparative Constitutional Reasoning (Cambridge 2017)] —Katalin Kelemen, Associate Professor in Law, Örebro University, Sweden This gap-filling edited collection on comparative constitutional reasoning is the final product of a five-year research project, involving 25 scholars from four…
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Article Review: Aileen Kavanagh on Neil Duxbury’s Judicial Disapproval as a Constitutional Technique
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Article Review Series, Aileen Kavanagh reviews Neil Duxbury’s article on Judicial Disapproval as a Constitutional Technique, which appears in the current issue of I•CON. Duxbury’s full article is available for free here.] —Aileen Kavanagh, University of Oxford In a fascinating article published in the most recent issue of ICON, Professor Neil Duxbury considers ‘judicial…
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Book Review: Eric C. Christiansen on Angioletta Sperti’s “Constitutional Courts, Gay Rights and Sexual Orientation Equality”
[Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Eric C. Christiansen reviews Angioletta Sperti’s “Constitutional Courts, Gay Rights and Sexual Orientation Equality” (Hart Publishing, 2017).] —Eric C. Christiansen, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law, San Francisco, California USA and Visiting Fulbright Professor, University of Valencia, Spain.
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Book Review: Jeffrey Goldsworthy on Se-shauna Wheatle’s “Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Jeffrey Goldsworthy reviews Se-shauna Wheatle’s Principled Reasoning in Human Rights Adjudication (Oxford: Hart 2017).] —Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Emeritus Professor of Law, Monash University, Adjunct Professor of Law, The University of Adelaide Se-shauna Wheatle’s book concerns judicial reasoning in human rights cases that purports to be based on “unwritten” or “implied”…
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Book Review: Antonios Kouroutakis on Frank Fagan & Saul Levmore’s “The Timing of Lawmaking”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Antonios Kouroutakis reviews Frank Fagan & Saul Levmore’s “The Timing of Lawmaking” (Edward Elgar 2017).] —Antonios Kouroutakis, IE Law School, Madrid There has been much ink shed about lawmaking; from the law and the politics of lawmaking to the due process of lawmaking and from constitutional lawmaking to judicial…
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Five Questions with Laurence Claus
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In “Five Questions” here at I-CONnect, we invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. This edition of “Five Questions” features Laurence Claus, Professor of Law at the University of San Diego.
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Book Review: Giovanni Piccirilli on “Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law” (Samo Bardutzky & Elaine Fahey eds., 2017)
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Giovanni Piccirilli reviews Framing the Subjects and Objects of Contemporary EU Law (Samo Bardutzky & Elaine Fahey eds., Edward Elgar Publishing 2017)] –Giovanni Piccirilli, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, LUISS Guido Carli, Rome The debate on the current status and the prospects of European integration has been more…