What’s New in Public Law

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—Mikołaj Wolanin, Master’s student, University of Warsaw (Poland)

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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. New President of the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland was appointed.
2. Former president of Zambia is ineligible to run for the third term – says the ruling of the Zambia’s Constitutional Court.
3. Detention laws and conditions in Slovakia were challenged by the European Court of Human Rights.
4. The criteria allowing to name a national resolution authority an independent one were clarified by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
5. The Venice Commission issued an opinion about the Polish Minister of Justice’s plan to cope with the issues related to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal.

In the News

1. Gintautas Paluckas’s government in Lithuania commenced its ruling.
2. Francois Bayrou was appointed as the new prime minister of France.
3. Moldova declared the state of emergency due to the threat of lack of the gas supplies.
4. The bill amending the constitution of Jamaica was introduced into a parliament.
5. As the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump forthcomes, more and more world leaders, including Xi Jinping, are being invited.

New Scholarship

1. Bradley C., Grove T.L., Vertical Stare Decisis and Disfavored Precedent: An Empirical and Normative Analysis, “University of Chicago Public Law Working Paper”.
2. Bellia Jr. A.J., Clark B.R., Constitutional Federalism and the Nature of the Union, “William&Mary Law Review” 2/2024.
3. Ginsburg T., Huq A.Z., Khaitan T. (eds.),  The Entrenchment of Democracy. The Comparative Constitutional Design of Elections, Parties and Voting, Cambridge 2024.
4. Bambrick C.R.,  Constitutionalizing the Private Sphere. A Comparative Inquiry, Cambridge 2024.
5. Bell A.J., McCunn J., Uncertainty in Comparative Law and Legal History. Known Unknowns, Routledge 2024.

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. Next year’s ICON-S Annual Conference in Brasilia welcomes the abstracts up to January 10^th 2025.
2. How to write a good conference abstract? That is a question that will be answered during an online event hosted by the ICON Society on December 19^th.
3. Last days of May 2025 will be marked with the conference of the ICON-S Benelux Chapter hosted in Brussels. Abstracts may be sent up to February 15^th.
4. ICON-S CEE Chapter’s annual conference will take place in May 2025 in Budapest. The deadline for submissions is set on February 5^th.
5. Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond scheduled on the beginning of June welcomes the extended abstracts up to January 25^th.

Elsewhere Online

1. Jorgensen M., A “Democratic Exception” to ICC Jurisdiction. The Law and Politics of Double Standards, Verfassungsblog.
2. Carrozzini A., Shooting Democracy in the Foot? The Romanian Constitutional Court’s Annulment of Presidential Elections, Verfassungsblog.
3. Jimenez E., High Stakes at the 23rd Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, OpinioJuris.
4. Sonnicksen J., Unified Government but Divided Polity? The 2024 U.S. Elections and the Potential Counterweight of the States, IACL-AIDC Blog.
5. Yun J.-I., 2024 Martial Law in South Korea — The Crossroads Between Democratic Regression or Proof of Strong Democracy, IACL-AIDC Blog.