The initiative to create an International Society of Public Law emerged from the Editorial Board of I•CON – the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
For several years now, I•CON has been, both by choice and pursuant to the cartographic reality of the field, much more than a journal of comparative constitutional law. I•CON has expanded its interests, its range of authors, its readers, its Editorial Board members, and above all, the issues it covers, to include not only articles in individual fields such as Administrative Law, Global Constitutional Law, Global Administrative Law and the like, but also – and increasingly so – scholarship that reflects both legal reality and academic perception; scholarship which, in dealing with the challenges of public life and governance, combines elements from all of the above fields with a good dose of political theory and social science.