What’s New in Public Law

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—Wilson Seraine da Silva Neto, PhD Candidate in Economic Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra

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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 U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a mega-jail in El Salvador must be returned to the US.
2. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could continue to deport Venezuelan migrants using a wartime powers act for now, overturning a lower court that had put a temporary stop to the deportations.
3. The South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned parliament’s impeachment of Justice Minister Park Sung-jae for his involvement in the December 3 martial law declaration.
4. The U.S. Supreme Court halts order to rehire probationary federal workers fired by Trump.
5. The Israel’s Supreme Court gave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government a deadline to find a compromise over his firing of one of his top intelligence chiefs, part of a courtroom battle that could lead to a constitutional crisis.

In the News

1. Newly appointed South Korea’s Constitutional Court Justice Ma Eun-hyuk began his six-year term, ending a six-month period during which the top court’s bench was short-staffed.
2. The U.K. Supreme Court is to issue its judgement on how a woman should be defined in law next week.
3. Khanlar Valiyev appointed as judge of Azerbaijan’s Constitutional Court.
4. The South Korea’s National Assembly’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee passed a bill to amend the Constitutional Court Act, which would allow the automatic extension of a Constitutional Court justice’s term if a successor is not appointed in time.
5. Australia’s Supreme Court appeal has been heard against “manifestly inadequate” release sentences given to two teenagers who attacked former rugby union great Toutai Kefu and his family in their home in 2021.

New Scholarship

1. Guido Calabresi, The Proper Role of Equality in Constitutional Adjudication: The Cathedral’s Missing Buttress (2025) (seeks to define when laws infringing fundamental rights not specified in the Constitution should be treated analogously to property and the role courts have in that task).
2. Christopher T. Zirpoli, Congressional and Presidential Authority to Impose Import Tariffs (2025) (This report examines Congress’s constitutional power over import tariffs, Congress’s ability to delegate some of its authority over tariffs to the President within certain limits).
3. João Carlos Souto, Aborto e Gênero na Suprema Corte dos Estados Unidos (2025) (examines the landmark cases on privacy, equal pay, Methods of contraception, and women’s right at the U.S. Supreme Court. This book will launch in Brazil).
4. Saul Tourinho Leal, Wilson Seraine Neto, Constituição Política do Império: 200 anos do Constitucionalismo no Brasil (2025) (this book is composed of 13 articles that analyze the 200 years of the first Constitution of Brazil)
5. Thomas Donnelly, The Roberts Court Revolution, Institutional Legitimacy, and the Promise (and Peril) of Constitutional Statesmanship (2025) (defines constitutional statesmanship for the Roberts Court Revolution).
6. Stephen Gardbaum, Separation of Powers and Political Parties (2025) (identifying, explaining, and illustrating the various ways in which political parties make an essential and distinct contribution to the separation of powers in contemporary democracies).

Calls for Papers and Announcements

1. The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research has opened the applications for the post-doctoral programme (2025-2026).
2. The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research invites you to the 25th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law that will be held from 7 to 9 May 2025 at Colégio da Trindade, Coimbra.
3. The University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research invites you to the III Doctoral Students Network that will be held on 21 May at Colégio da Trindade, Coimbra.
4. The National Constitution Center invites you to the webinar The Day the Revolution Began: Lexington and Concord at 250 that will be held on 15 April, via Zoom.
5. The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford invites you to the seminar “Elections and Media: newest challenges, threats, and response” that will be held on 24 April, in person, at IECL Seminar Room, University of Oxford.

Elsewhere Online

1. Yasser Kureshi, Constitutionally Capturing Pakistan’s Constitutional Courts, Verfassungsblog
2. Adam Serwer, The Confrontation Between Trump and the Supreme Court Has Arrived, The Atlantic
3. Christina Pazzanese, When arguing cases before Supreme Court is your job, The Harvard Gazette
4. Duncan Hosie, The Apathetic Court, The New York Review
5. Luke Dimitrios Spieker, Tackling the Union’s “Orbán Problem” Now, Verfassungsblog