What’s New in Public Law

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—Nicola Abate, Ph.D. Candidate in Law at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

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In this weekly feature, I-CONnect publishes a curated reading list of developments in public law. “Developments” may include a selection of links to news, high court decisions, new or recent scholarly books and articles, and blog posts from around the public law blogosphere.

To submit relevant developments for our weekly feature on “What’s New in Public Law,” please email iconnecteditors@gmail.com.

Developments in Constitutional Courts

1. US judge delays launch of sports streaming venture from Disney, media giants
2. Bayer wins US legal victory against Roundup cancer claims.
3. The Colombian Constitutional Court protected the rights of two persons deprived of their liberty who were held in a temporary detention center for more than 36 hours.
4. The Colombian Constitutional Court stated that the awarding of custody of minors cannot derive from or be treated in court as a dispute between mere individual interests.
5. The Italian Constitutional Court recognises the existence of non-binary people for the first time in Italian history.

In the News

1. Thailand’s parliament elected political neophyte Paetongtarn Shinawatra as its youngest prime minister.
2. Dominican Republic leader Luis Abinader assumed his second four-year term as president.
3. Kamala Harris pledges to tackle costs, build houses, lower taxes in economy speech
4. Palestinians describe ‘brutal’ West Bank settler attack.
5. Kremlin accuses the West of helping Ukraine attack Russia.
6. EU public health body raises mpox risk alert level.
7. WHO confirms first case of new mpox strain outside Africa.
8. Ukraine presidential adviser denies Ukraine’s involvement in Nord Stream explosions.
9. Bulgaria’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law is official.

New Scholarship

1. Kate Masur & Gregory Downs, Designed to Ameliorate the Condition of People of Color: The Reconstruction Republicans and the Question of Affirmative Action (the authors analyzed whether the Republican leaders who drove passage and ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment believed the amendment.
2. Gerald J. Postema, An ‘Almost Sacred Responsibility’: The Rule of Law in Times of Peril (the paper articulates the core principles of the rule-of-law ideal, its moral foundations, key institutions in which it is typically realized, and signal threats to which it is vulnerable).
3. Marcin Matczak, Constitutive conventions in law and the problem of their primacy (the author argues that constitutive conventions do not necessarily precede coordination conventions, either logically or temporally).
4. Nina Varsava, Reconstructing Precedent (the author develops an interpretivist account of horizontal stare decisis, which would both explain and justify the practice).
5. Colloquium on the Scott Hershovitz’s book in the journal “Jurisprudence”, Volume 15, Issue 2 (2024).
6. Special Issue by the journal “Perspective on Federalism” on the new trends in comparative federalism.
7. Nikos Skoutaris, Mind the Gap Between Federalism and Secession: The Relationship Between Two (In)compatible Concepts (the paper provides for a nuanced account of the relationship between the concepts of federalism and secession).
8. Shalev Gad Roisman, Trump v. United States and the Separation of Powers (the author develops the view that the interest balancing is the best method for resolving separation of powers disputes of the prevailing alternatives).

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. Strathclyde Law School is offering scholarships to talented current or prospective mature students studying any taught course in the Law School. Deadline August 27, 2024.
2. The American Bar Foundation (ABF) invites applications to join its residential faculty as a Research Professor beginning in the 2025-2026 academic year. The deadline is September 15, 2024.
3. UNC-Chapel Hill School of Civic Life and Leadership adds faculty to enhance student experience and campus initiatives.
4. The Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice is ready for the Inaugural Lecture of the 2024 Olof Palme Guest Professor with Anne Orford.
5. The ECPR is inviting for the Joint Sessions of Workshops 2025 organized in the Charles University, Prague. Deadline: Wednesday 11 September 2024.
6. Call for Abstracts “Intersectionality, Fundamental Rights and Social Relations in Comparative Law”. Deadline to apply is 20 September 2024.
7. Tilburg Law School is looking for a Postdoctoral researcher on fundamental rights and Artificial Intelligence. Deadline: 8 September 2024.
8. PhD Studentship (3 years): A New Era of EU Enlargement: Populism and Public Opinion within the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Aston University. Deadline: September 19, 2024.

Elsewhere Online

1. The Global Summit on Constitutionalism will feature Miguel Maduro delivering a keynote lecture on the past and future of a Constitution for Europe.
2. The top ten most read articles for the journal Legal Theory in this year.
3. Jacob Öberg presents his last book “The Normative Foundations for EU Criminal Justice”.
4. Bell Yosef, The Price of Equality (an overview on the Israel’s long-standing debate over ultra-Orthodox Yeshiva students conscription).
5. Anna Kompatscher and Susanna Roßbach, Non-Binary Gender Markers in Italy? (an opinion on the Decision No. 143/2024 of the Italian Constitutional Court).
6. Shorena Nikoleishvili, Family Values, Tradition, and Human Rights (the struggle over LGBTQ+ Rights in Georgia).