–Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra.
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.
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Developments in Constitutional Courts
- The UK Supreme Court will decide whether trans women can be regarded as female under the Equality Act.
- The U.S Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge from major tobacco companies to the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that they place graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements.
- Romania’s Constitutional Court will debate on next week whether to annul the first round of presidential elections, in which relatively unknown, TikTok-famous candidate Călin Georgescu beat several well-established candidates with 23% of the vote.
- Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that a recent change made by the new government to how religion classes – which consist of Catholic catechism teaching – are organized in schools is unconstitutional.
- Colombia’s Constitutional Court has instructed the Ministry of Health to revise its regulations on euthanasia, extending its application to patients with non-terminal illnesses.
- The German Federal Court of Justice decided video conference marriage is invalid in Germany.
In the News
- David Neuberger, the former president of the UK Supreme Court who ruled on the most high-profile assisted dying cases, has declared his support for assisted dying law change.
- Irēna Kucina, the current Vice-President of the Constitutional Court, was elected President of the Latvia’s Constitutional Court.
- Georgia’s President Salome Zourabichvili filed a lawsuit with the country’s Constitutional Court to annul the results of a disputed parliamentary election held last month.
- Brazil’s federal police presented evidence to the Supreme Court that former President Jair Bolsonaro was directly involved in plotting a coup to overturn the outcome of the 2022 election he lost.
- The US Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of the Tennessee Act that banned healthcare providers from treating minors for gender dysphoria.
New Scholarship
- Mathias Mösche, Ex-Ministers as Constitutional Judges (2025) (provides a comprehensive exploration of ex-ministers serving as constitutional court judges, offering unique insight into the workings of constitutional courts in Austria, France, Germany, and Italy).
- Richard Primus, Sins and Omissions: Slavery and the Bill of Rights (2024) (analyses whether the choice to omit a bill of rights in the Constitutional Convention was to avoid a fight over slavery).
- Eduardo Gill-Pedro, Andreas Moberg (editors), YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions 2023: Law and the Governance of Artificial Intelligence (2024) (brings together articles that Connect the governance of AI with the socio-economic dimensions in constitutional law).
- M Victoria Kristan, Democracia global y Estados no representative (2024) (analyzes the possibility of international interventions as a means to transform non-democratic states into democratic ones, based on the distinction between dominating and non-dominating interventions)
- N W Barber, What is constitutional ideology? (2024) (provides a model of constitutional ideology, examining the interplay of rules and concepts, and the ways in which ideology structures reasoning).
Calls for Papers and Announcements
- The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research invites you to the “VII Debate on Forests and Legislation: Sanctions for preventing and reacting to forest fires” that will take place on 9 December 2024.
- The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research invites you to the Conference “Climate Justice Activism: is it possible to change the world without breaking the rules?” that will be held on 11 December 2024.
- Centre for Development of Intellectual Property and Research (CDIPR) invites you to the South Asian Global IP Conference 2024 that will take place on 23 December 2024. Abstracts can be submitted by 12 December.
- The University of Texas at Austin invites you to the online launch of two new books: “Cities and the Constitution” and “The Past, Present, and Future of Canadian Cities” which will be held on 03 December 2024.
Elsewhere Online
- Bruno Santos Cunha and André Borges Uliano, Taming the Brazilian Supreme Court, Verfassungsblog
- Philip Oltermann, ‘The constitutional court is easy to crack’: the threats to German democracy go on stage, The Guardian
- Richard Brookhiser, What was the constitutional vision of John Adams?, YouTube
- Cass R. Sunstein, Trump initiatives might be foiled by the right’s defeat of Chevron, The Washington Post
- Or Bassok, The Silence of the Israeli Supreme Court Judges, Verfassungsblog
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