Tag: French Constitution
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Celebrating International Women’s Day by Promoting Pro-Women Constitutional Amendments: A Risky Strategy?
—Tania Groppi, Università degli Studi di Siena [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more on our 2024 columnists, see here.] March 8, 2024, International Women’s Day, was marked, in France and in Ireland, by two constitutionally significant events with very different outcomes.
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I-CONnect Symposium–Contemporary Discussions in Constitutional Law–Part IV: The Formalist Resistance to Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
[Editor’s Note: This is Part IV in our Externado symposium on “Contemporary Discussions in Constitutional Law.” The Introduction to the symposium is available here, Part I is available here, Part II is available here, and Part III is available here.] —Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin The most fascinating question in…
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I-CONnect Video Interview Series: Jean-Philippe Derosier on National Limits to European Integration
–Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In this latest installment of our video interview series at I-CONnect, I interview Jean-Philippe Derosier on the subject of national constitutional limits to European Integration. The subject of our discussion is his recent book, published in May 2015, entitled “Les limites constitutionnelles à l’intégration européenne,” a comparative study of limits…
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Video Interview: Developments in French Constitutional Law Featuring François-Xavier Millet
–Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In this latest installment of our video interview series at I-CONnect, I interview François-Xavier Millet on developments in French constitutional law. In the interview, we discuss the role of the Conseil constitutionnel, the QPC (question prioritaire de constitutionnalité), the relationship between France and its territories as well as between the French Constitution and…