Against the backdrop of the world’s staggering urbanization rate and the absence of cities from constitutional law, constitutional thought, and comparative constitutional studies more generally, Ran Hirschl argues in his…
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The Society congratulates Phoebe Okowa, Member of the Executive Committee of ICON•S and Professor of Public International Law at Queen Mary University of London on being named as Kenya’s nominee to…
In this ICON•S Live event, Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin), Gráinne de Búrca (NYU, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law) and Matthias Goldmann (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Editor-in-Chief of the…
The nomination process for our 2021 ICON•S Book Prize is now closed. We thank you for your wonderful nominations. The 2021 ICON•S Book Prize Committee will now review the nominated…
In her new book “Open Democracy”, Hélène Landemore proposes a new paradigm of democracy—one in which power is accessible to ordinary citizens rather than exclusively accessible to elites. Landemore proposes…
ICON•S Italy will host an online event organized in co-operation with LUISS (Centro Bachelet e Centro di studi sul Parlamento) on ‘Right, duty, emergency, conflict: the COVID-19 vaccine from a…
ICON·S invites expressions of interest to join the Secretariat. The Secretariat consists of a team of scholars who, on a voluntary basis, manage the operations of the Society under the leadership…
We are pleased to announce our first ICON•S Live event in 2021! Join us in a live discussion of Hélène Landemore’s new book “Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century”…
ICON • S is pleased to open the Call for Nominations for its fourth annual Book Prize. In line with the Society’s mission, the Prize will be awarded to an outstanding…
Check out the latest addition to our YouTube channel! Our co-President Lorenzo Casini interviews Marta Cartabia about her experiences as Judge and the first female President of the Italian Constitutional…