The I•CON Prize is awarded each year by the Editors-in-Chief and the Advisory Board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON) for the most outstanding article published in the journal. A separate prize recognizes the best article published in the journal’s Spanish-language issue.
I•CON PRIZE
2026
I•CON PRIZE
MATHIEU LELOUP
Constraints on the domestic separation of powers by supranational courts
I•CON PRIZE — SPANISH ISSUE
PABLO KALMANOVITZ
¡Narcoterroristas! Derecho internacional antiterrorista y crimen organizado en Colombia, El Salvador y México
Narcoterrorists! International counterterrorist law and organized crime in Colombia, El Salvador and Mexico
SPECIAL MENTION
- Corporate rights and corporate purpose
Turkuler Isiksel
2025
I•CON PRIZE
MICHAEL KARAYANNI
A “third camp” in Israel’s constitutional upheaval: The voice of the silent Palestinian-Arab minority
I•CON PRIZE — SPANISH ISSUE
M. VICTORIA KRISTAN
Democracia global y Estados no representativos
Global democracy and unrepresentative States
2024
I•CON PRIZE
DAVID KOSAŘ AND KATARÍNA ŠIPULOVÁ
Comparative court-packing
I•CON PRIZE — SPANISH ISSUE
FLORENCIA ANTÍA, LUCÍA GIUDICE GRAÑA AND DANIELA VAIRO
El rol de la Suprema Corte de Justicia ante la judicialización de la salud en Uruguay. Aportes para la descripción de la cultura jurídica uruguaya
The role of the Supreme Court of Justice in the judicialization of healthcare in Uruguay. Contributions to the description of Uruguayan legal culture
SPECIAL MENTIONS
- The constitutional quandary of social rights: Questions in times of the Polish illiberal turn
Michał Krajewski - Unsexing citation: Closing the gender gap in global public law
Rosalind Dixon and Mila Versteeg - Constitucionalismo fuerte y democracia deliberativa: Inconsistencias en Rawls, Dworkin, y Alexy
Strong constitutionalism and deliberative democracy: Inconsistencies in Rawls, Dworkin, and Alexy
C. Ignacio Giuffré
2023
I•CON PRIZE
MAARTJE DE VISSER AND JACLYN L. NEO
What would a pluralist institutional approach to constitutional interpretation look like? Some methodological implications
I•CON PRIZE — SPANISH ISSUE
GERARDO TRIPOLONE
Republicanismo y ciudadanía armada en la Constitución Nacional argentina
Republicanism and armed citizenship in Argentina’s National Constitution
SPECIAL MENTIONS
- Against settlement before the European Court of Human Rights
Veronika Fikfak - Petrificando la rama judicial en Colombia: autointerés judicial y control de constitucionalidad inapropiado de reformas constitucionales a la justicia
The petrification of the judiciary in Colombia: Judicial self-interest and inappropriate judicial review of amendments to the judicial branch
Vicente F. Benítez-R.
2022
I•CON PRIZE
GIOVANNI DE GREGORIO
The rise of digital constitutionalism in the European Union
I•CON PRIZE — SPANISH ISSUE
DÚBER ARMANDO CELIS VELA
La tesis sobre la especificidad de la interpretación constitucional
The specificity thesis of constitutional interpretation
SPECIAL MENTION
- Constitutional locks
Michael D. Gilbert, Mauricio Guim, and Michael Weisbuch
2021
I•CON PRIZE
TAMAR HOSTOVSKY BRANDES
The diminishing status of international law in the decisions of the Israeli Supreme Court concerning the Occupied Territories
SPECIAL MENTION
- Taming the prince: Bringing presidential emergency powers under law in Colombia
Andrea Scoseria Katz
2020
I•CON PRIZE
MING-SUNG KUO
Against instantaneous democracy
SPECIAL MENTIONS
- The right to freedom of religion and the right against religious discrimination: Theoretical distinctions
Tarunabh Khaitan and Jane Calderwood Norton - The morality of foreign law
Bosko Tripkovic
