What’s New in Public Law

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—Yacine Mousli, PhD Candidate, Sciences Po Law School

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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. The Supreme Federal Court of Brazil confirmed Twitter’s suspension in the country.
2. Tunisia’s highest Administrative Court reinstated presidential candidates, but the electoral body dismissed its ruling.
3. Thailand’s Constitutional Court removes prime minister for violating constitution.
4. The Court of Justice of the European Union clarifies its position regarding particular social group in the context of blood feuds in Afghanistan.
5. Judge delays Trump hush money sentencing until after election.

In the News

1. Professor Wen-Chen Chang was nominated to be the first female Chief Justice of the Taiwanese Constitutional Court.
2. French President Emmanuel Macron appointed a right-wing Prime Minister, despite the left arriving first in July’s legislative elections. France unbowed initiated a destitution procedure.
3. Presidential elections in Algeria are taking place, with President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expected to win.
4. Guinea’s draft constitution was published online by the National Transition Council.
5. Mexico plans to move ahead with controversial judicial reforms.

New Scholarship

1. Albert, Richard, Decolonial Constitutionalism, introducing decolonial constitutionalism as the modern form of self-determination.
2. Gienapp, Jonathan, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, examining the failure of originalism to correctly address constitutional history.
3. Hamilton, Rebecca J., Criminalizing Ecocide, introducing the expressive power of ecocide in international criminal law.
4. Hathaway Oona A., Khan, Azmat, Revkin, Mara Redlich, The Dangerous Rise of “Dual-Use” Objects in War, showing how the rise of dual-use objects in war is putting civilians at risk.
5. Kurban, Dilek, Authoritarian Resistance and Judicial Complicity: Turkey and the European Court of Human Rights, arguing argues that authoritarian regimes seek to lessen international courts’ oversight of their policies, not to undermine the authority of these courts as such, and that international courts are not always resilient vis-à-vis authoritarian resistance but can also be complicit with it.
6. Potts, Shaina, Judicial Territory, Law, Capital, and the Expansion of American Empire, revealing how the American empire has benefited from the post-World War II expansion of United States judicial authority over the economic decisions of postcolonial governments.

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. The Decolonial Comparative Law Program invites participants to its third edition happening in the Federal University of Bahia (7 to 9 november 2024).
2. The Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education opens its Frantz Fanon dissertation Award.
3. Cambridge Disinformation Summit welcomes papers on the “Research on the efficacy of disinformation interventions”.
4. The 2025 Global Summit on Constitutionalism welcomes proposals for fully-formed panels or individual paper presentations.
5. The Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at Hong Kong University calls for short papers for its digital encyclopedia.
6. IACL organizes a Roundtable in Rome about “Current Challenges to Constitutional Democracy.”

Elsewhere Online

1. Jo Mangaliso Mdhlela, South Africa has no need to change its constitution.
2. Jus Politicum, The Council of State’s constitutional law (I).
3. Registrations are open for the Decolonial comparative law online reading group.
4. Kelali K. Negesse, Restrictions to the Free Exercise of Freedom of Association in Ethiopia, IACL-AIDC.
5. Interview with Viktor Zoltán Kazai about his last book, The Equilibrium of Parliamentary Law-making: Comparative Perspectives on the Role of Courts in a Democracy.
6. The Revista de Administración Pública, n° 224 mayo/agosto 2024, is now available in open access.