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ICON-S, the International Society of Public Law, invites paper and panel submissions for its 2017 Annual Meeting, Copenhagen, July 5-7, 2017

ICON-S, the International Society of Public Law, invites paper and panel submissions for its 2017 Annual Meeting to be held in Copenhagen on July 5-7, 2017, under the auspices of at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law and iCourts – the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Excellence on International Courts. The overarching theme […]

Invalid Anti-Migrant Referendum in Hungary

by Gábor Halmai, Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the EUI On Sunday, 2 October, Hungarian voters went to the polls to answer one referendum question: “Do you want to allow the European Union to mandate the relocation of non-Hungarian citizens to Hungary without the approval of the National Assembly?” Although 92 % of those […]

Inaugural Lecture: A crisis of constitutional democracy in post-Communist Europe: “Lands in-between” democracy and authoritarianism by Prof. Bojan Bugarič

On 4 October, for its first event, the newly created Working Group on Constitutionalism and Politics was honoured to welcome Professor Bojan Bugarič. Bojan Bugarič is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Ljubljana and Visiting Researcher, Center for European Studies, Harvard University. With a specific focus on Hungary and Slovenia, Prof. Bugarič analysed […]