Tag: judicial activism
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The Cautious Attitude of the Italian Constitutional Court on Assisted Suicide: An Example of “Passive Activism”?
—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.] On July 18th, 2024, the Italian Constitutional Court (hereinafter ICC) ruled (for the fourth time in the last few years) on assisted suicide (decision n° 135/2024).
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I–CONnect Symposium: The 30th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court of Korea—Introduction: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court of Korea
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a special symposium on the 30th anniversary of the Constitutional Court of Korea. The Court marked this historic moment last year in 2018. We are grateful to Professor Kyu Ho Youm for convening this symposium with a diverse array of participants.
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An Update on the Death Penalty in Trinidad & Tobago
—John Knechtle, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad The sentence of death has been the mandatory penalty for murder in Trinidad and Tobago since independence in 1962 and with the country consistently ranking in the top ten percent for homicides per capita around the world, public support for the death penalty remains strong.
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Judicial Activism Against Austerity in Portugal
–Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro, Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon* [Editors’ note: below is an essay on the current situation in Portugal. We thank Professor Ribeiro for the opportunity to publish this essay in the form of an extended post on the blog.]