The editors of ICONnect are very pleased to announce our new slate of columnists for 2025: Goran Selanec, Alexandra Flynn, Yoomin Won, and Jorge González-Jácome. We are certain that they will provide a diverse and fascinating set of voices for our readers, representing a range of regional and substantive areas of focus.
We would also like to give thanks and express appreciation for our outgoing 2024 columnists — Esther Ang’awa, Aparna Chandra, Tania Groppi, and Miguel Schor. We are deeply grateful to each of these scholars for agreeing to serve as columnists last year, and for adding so much useful content to the blog.
The format of the columns is the same as in prior years. The goal is to provide ICONnect with regular contributors who have a distinctive voice and unique perspective on public law. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts. Each columnist will produce one column roughly every two months.
Although we expect that many of our readers already know their work, we append brief bios for each of our new columnists below. Please join us in welcoming them to ICONnect!
Goran Selanec, S.J.D. has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia since 2017. Before assuming the position at the Court, he carried a duty of the Deputy Ombuds for Gender Equality. He also thought EU Law at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb. During his mandate at the Court he maintained educational commitment and regularly cooperates with institutions such as Die Europäische Rechtsakademie, European Judicial Training Network and the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. Selanec graduated law (dipl.iur) at the University of Zagreb and acquired his LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan Law School.
Dr. Alexandra Flynn is an Associate Professor at UBC’s Allard School of Law and the Director of the Housing Research Collaborative. Her teaching and research focus on municipal, housing, and property law. She has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, public reports, media articles, and books on how cities are legally understood in law and how they govern. The Housing Research Collaborative comprises CMHC and SSHRC-funded projects focused on Canada’s housing crisis: the Housing Assessment Resource Tools project, which helps communities to measure and address their housing need; and the Balanced Supply of Housing Node, which brings together academic and non-profit community organizations to research responsive land use practices and the financialization of housing. Her current focus is on housing and homelessness, and the legal meaning of the ‘right to housing’.
Yoomin Won is an Associate Professor of International Law at Seoul National University School of Law. She earned her bachelor’s degree in law from Seoul National University, followed by a master’s degree (M2R and DSU) from Université Panthéon-Assas Paris II. She also holds both a J.S.M. and a J.S.D. from Stanford Law School. Before joining academia, Professor Won served as a Constitution Research Officer at the Constitutional Court of Korea. Her legal experience also includes internships at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Her research interests lie at the intersection of international human rights law, the relationship between international and domestic law, and comparative constitutional law.
Jorge González-Jácome is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and editor in chief of the Latin American Law Review (LAR). He holds a Doctorate in Juridical Science (SJD) from Harvard University and his research focuses on legal theory, constitutional law and history, and law and literature.
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