Category: IACL
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Weekly round-up
This week’s announcement is below. ~~~ Readers are invited to peruse the first Debate Symposium since the IACL-AIDC Blog was re-launched in June 2018, titled: ‘The Citizens’ Assembly in Ireland: A Successful Experiment in Deliberative Democracy?’. It began on Monday, 19 November 2018 and the core contributions have been eight posts to date, most recently…
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Merris Amos: Report from the International Association of Constitutional Law
For those of you who are not familiar with the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) since its foundation in 1981 it has evolved into a diverse and dynamic group of constitutional law scholars from around the world led by new President, Professor Adrienne Stone from the University of Melbourne. The UKCLA has always had…
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IACL Roundtable: Separation of Powers in the Global South
The University of Johannesburg with host an IACL Roundtable on 28-29th May 2015 on the theme Separation of Powers in the Global South. Professor David Bilchitz. the Director of SAIFAC and Professor at University of Johannesburg and co-convenor of the Roundtable (with Professor David Landau of Florida State University) explains the central themes of the Roundtable. The role of the…
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Andrew Le Sueur: Do you need another constitutional law blog?
(Short answer, yes.). Over the past five years, blogging has moved out of the shadows to become not only a respectable but also an essential academic and professional channel for ideas, debate and information. The field of constitutional law is well served by some excellent blogs. The UKCLA blog – the one you’re reading –…
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Event: Contemporary Issues in Indian Public Law: Transnational Perspectives, 12 April 2015
The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and National Law University, Delhi invite you to a conference on ‘Contemporary Issues in Indian Public Law: Transnational Perspectives’. The conference will be held on the 12th of April 2015 at National Law University, Delhi. To attend the conference, please register here.…
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IACL roundtable Bucharest: constitutional rules for a balanced budget
Directed by Professor Elena-Simina Tănăsescu, a IACL roundtable was held in Bucharest, Romania, on on 21-22 November 2014 on ‘Shaping constitutional rules for a balanced budget’. A report of the event, including a complete video recording, is available here. The financial power of the state has always been embedded with political power, although traditionally constitutions…
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Andrew Le Sueur: report on IACL 9th World Congress in Oslo
I’m not sure what the collective noun for constitutional law scholars is, but whatever the word, there were a lot of them in Norway last week for the 9th world congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law (IALC). The event, which ran from 16th to 20th June 2014, attracted over 600 participants –24 from…
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Call for Papers: Conference on “Constitutionalism Across Borders in the Struggle Against Terrorism”
The International Association of Constitutional Law’s* Research Group on Constitutional Responses to Terrorism has issued a call for proposals (in the form of abstracts) for papers to be given at a roundtable to be held at Harvard Law School, USA on 6-7 March 2014 entitled “Constitutionalism Across Borders in the Struggle Against Terrorism” During the last two decades…
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Andrew Le Sueur: IACL and UKCLG organisational matters
The latest newsletter from the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL, of which the UK Constitutional Law Group is an affiliated national organisation) has been published (click on this link IACL newsletter 4 November 2013 resized). Key points: deadline for receipt of expressions of interest for presenting papers at the 17 workshops of the 2014 Oslo…
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Andrew Le Sueur: IACL IXth World Congress 2014 call for papers
The deadline for expressions of interest to present a paper at the 9th World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law is fast approaching: 1 November 2013. The procedure is set out here, on the congress website. To be held in Oslo, Norway, 16-20 June 2014, the overarching theme of the event is “Constitutional…