What’s New in Public Law

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—Yacine Ben Chaabane 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. Romania’s Constitutional Court has annulled the country’s presidential election, following international interference.
2. Failing to punish a man who disseminated on the Internet intimate photos of a young woman after their breakup violates Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights.
3. Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has ruled to keep electricity under public sector management.
4. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Neil Gorsuch recused himself in an environmental case involving his ally.
5. The Constitutional Court of Georgia rejected three appeals challenging the constitutionality of the October 26 parliamentary elections.

In the News

1. The South Korean National Assembly voted to lift the martial law declared a few hours before by the President.
2. The French Government falls after a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly.
3. The Jamaican Parliament is about to review the Bill to amend the Constitution, aiming to transition the country to a Republic.
4. A legislative bill in Taiwan is threatening to paralyze the Constitutional Court by setting a quorum to review cases at ten judges.
5. The Supreme Court of the United Stated heard the U.S. v. Skrmetti case on transgender care, where the first transgender lawyer argued before the Court.

New Scholarship

1. 2023 Global Review of Constitutional Law, offering detailed reports on constitutional developments and cases during the past calendar year in multiple jurisdictions around the world.
2. Richard Albert et alii (eds), Cities and the Constitution, developing the idea of recognizing municipalities in provincial constitutions.
3. Ignacio Criado et alii, Artificial intelligence and public administration: Understanding actors, governance, and policy from micro, meso, and macro perspectives, debating the need of an analytical framework of AI in the public sector.
4. Louis Hill et alii (eds), The Anarchist Jurists. Towards new concrete utopias, exploring the connections between law and anarchy (in French, Les Juristes Anarchistes).
5. Mathias Möschel, Ex-Ministers as Constitutional Judges, providing an exploration of ex-ministers serving as constitutional court judges in France, Austria, Italy and Germany.
6. Céline Roynier and Catherine Marshall, Twenty-First Century Perspectives on the Scholarship of AV Dicey, reassessing AV Dicey’s legacy in political and legal thought
7. Guillaume Tusseau (eds), Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism, bringing together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to analyse the utilitarian standpoint on legal disciplines and legal governance.

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. The Center of Advanced Studies at Humboldt University welcomes applications for fellowships on the theme of ‘Reflexive Globalization and the Law: Colonial Legacies and their Impact in the 21st Century’ (open until February 15th 2025).
2. Nomopolis, International Journal of Law and Politics, welcomes paper proposals on Indigenous People and Mobility until February 1st.
3. The 3rd Annual Comparative Animal Law Postgraduate Workshop (April 8-9, 2025) accepts abstracts until February 15th.
4. The ICON•S Constitution Making Interest Group invites paper proposals for panels on constitution-making at the ICON-S Annual Conference 2025 in Brasilia.
5. The Global Review of Constitutional Law welcomes expressions of interest to contribute a country report for 2024.

Elsewhere Online

1. Or Bassok, The Silence of the Israeli Supreme Court Judges, Verfassungsblog.
2. ICON•S France organises a hybrid roundtable on “Defining the Constitution” by Margaux Bouaziz (Définir la Constitution) on December 9th.
3. Carweyn Jones, How the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill Disenfranchise Established Rights of Māori, Verfassungsblog.
4. Michael Lane’s review of The Collaborative Constitution by Aileen Kavanagh, Cambridge University Press.
5. The Hamburg Max Planck Institute hosts a reading group on decolonial comparative law. Registration is on this link.