Category: Reviews
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Five Questions with Jon Elster
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School “Five Questions with … ” is a brand new feature at I-CONnect. We will periodically invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. Our fourth edition of “Five Questions with … ” features Jon Elster, Robert K.
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Five Questions with Rosalind Dixon
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School “Five Questions with … ” is a brand new feature at I-CONnect. We will periodically invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. Our third edition of “Five Questions with … ” features Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law at the University of New South…
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Five Questions with Tom Ginsburg
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School “Five Questions with … ” is a brand new feature at I-CONnect. We will periodically invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. Our second edition of “Five Questions with … ” features Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde…
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Book Review: Barbara Guastaferro on Nicola Lupo and Cristina Fasone’s “Interparliamentary Cooperation in the Composite European Constitution”
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Barbara Guastaferro reviews Nicola Lupo and Cristina Fasone’s book on Interparliamentary Cooperation in the Composite European Constitution (Oxford: Hart 2016)] —Barbara Guastaferro, Research Fellow in Law, Durham Law School and Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Naples “Federico II” This edited volume analyses the functioning of inter-parliamentary…
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Five Questions with Mark Tushnet
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School “Five Questions with … ” is a brand new feature at I-CONnect. We will periodically invite a public law scholar to answer five questions about his or her research. Our inaugural edition of “Five Questions with … ” features Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard…
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2016 Book Recommendation: Contiades & Fotiadou on “The People”
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School Xenophon Contiades & Alkmene Fotiadou (eds.). Participatory Constitutional Change: The People as Amenders of the Constitution. Routledge, 2017. P. 217. £ 95.00. ISBN: 978-1472478696. In a recent I·CON editorial, Joseph Weiler laments the prevalence of low-quality edited volumes in the field of public law.
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2016 Book Recommendations–Hofstadter on American Politics, Lanni on Ancient Athens
—Tom Ginsburg, University of Chicago Richard Hofstadter. The paranoid style in American politics and other essays. Harvard University Press, 1996 (1964). P. 346. ISBN: 978-0674654617 Adriaan Lanni. Law and Order in Ancient Athens. Cambridge University Press, 2016. P. 240. £ 80.00.
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Ten Good Reads for Christmas — Editor-in-Chief’s Choices for 2016
—J. H. H. Weiler, Co-Editor-in-Chief, I•CON As is now our custom, I list 10 of the books I read during the last year which stood out and which I do not hesitate to recommend to our readers. The law books – seven in all – are actually all relatively recent.
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Virtual Bookshelf: Judicial Review in Kenya: A Review of “The Contested Empowerment of Kenya’s Judiciary, 2010-2015: A Historical Institutional Analysis,” by James Thuo Gathii
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School We know a lot about the theory of judicial review. We also know a lot about how the power of judicial review is exercised and why it has emerged in many constitutional democracies around the world.