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Save the date for the inaugural conference of the European Law Unbound Society! 👇

With the ICON•S 2025 Conference in Brasília deadline (Jan 10) approaching, join Evan Rosevear, Amal Sethi, Yuliya Kaspiarovich, & Letícia Kreuz for a 1-hour session on crafting top conference submissions. 📅 19 Dec 2024 | ⏰ 2:00 PM CET 🔗 Register now! ➡️https://lnkd.in/gMFMhdxj

Exciting News from ICON•S We are thrilled to announce two new appointments to the Directorate of ICON•S Chapter Development! 👤 Vicente F. Benítez R.. joins us as Co-Director for Chapter Development.  👤 Endre Orban steps in as Coordinator of the Chapter Directorate Team. Their contribution, together with Johanna Fröhlich, will be significant as we continue to grow and connect ICON•S chapters worldwide. Please join us in welcoming Vicente and Endre to the team! 🎉

On 8 November 2024, I'll discuss my recently published book 'Supermajority Voting in Constitutional Courts: The Problem of Majority Rule for Democracy and Legislation' (Routledge 2024) with professors Erin Delaney (Northwestern University/UCL) and Conrado Hübner Mendes (Universidade de São Paulo). The event is open to everyone. Here's the Zoom to access it: https://lnkd.in/eQSfWTgX

📢Did you hear? The 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference Call for Papers is out! The conference will be held in person at the University of Brasilia, 🇧🇷 from July 28 to 30, 2025. The conference theme is “At the Crossroads of Public Law: Equality, Climate Emergency, and Democracy in the Digital Era.” We particularly encourage submissions relating to the conference theme but welcome proposals addressing all areas of public law, broadly defined. We are pleased to partner with the University of Brasilia and continue our tradition of holding a diverse and global event gathering scholars, practitioners, and judges from all over the world to discuss the research of our ICON•S members. 📥 We welcome three types of submissions: 🔻 Individual Submissions: A single paper presentation proposal. 🔻Fully-Formed Panels/Book Roundtables: Pre-arranged panels composed of multiple presentations around a unified theme or dedicated to discussing a book. 🔻Interest Groups: ICON•S interest groups collaborating on specific theme 🗓 The submission window will close at 11:59 pm UCT on January 10, 2025. No submissions will be allowed after that date. You should receive notification of our decision by approximately February 10, 2025. 💻 If your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the event via Oxford Abstracts in order to confirm your participation. For more information visit: https://lnkd.in/ezK_YKXK

We are excited to introduce the newly appointed team who will serve as Officers for the Society during the 2024-2027 cycle! Co-Presidents: Michaela Hailbronner & Sergio Verdugo Secretary General: Erin Delaney Deputies: Anna Pirri Valentini, Amal Sethi & Evan Rosevear 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gim7DcgM

📅 SAVE THE DATE | We are thrilled to announce that the 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of Brasília, Brazil 🇧🇷 from July 28-30, 2025! Mark your calendars and stay tuned for more updates! #iconsbrasilia

The ICON•S annual conference last week, organized in partnership with IE Law School at the beautiful IE Tower in Madrid, was important and meaningful to me personally, for many reasons: First, it was the celebration of ICON•S's 10th anniversary. I have been contributing to ICON•S in different capacities since 2015-2016, and I am very proud of what it has become. Second, it was the biggest ICON•S conference ever held (with more than 2000 people coming from 81 countries) and possibly one of the biggest (if not the biggest) public law conferences ever organized. Third, it was held at my beloved home institution, the IE University. I was so proud to be part of the organizing team, along with amazing people like Fernando Pastor Merchante, Sara Junquera Merino, Marie-José Garot, and Sonsoles Arias Guedón. And collaborate with excellent IE Law School scholars like François Delerue, Antonios Kouroutakis, Yuliya Kaspiarovich, Federica Coppola, and many more. Thanks so much to the dean, Soledad Atienza Becerril, and to the rector, Salvador Carmona, for their unconditional support. Fourth, I was very proud of seeing how the excellent ICON•S team has consolidated itself with hard-working friends like Michaela Hailbronner, Amal Sethi, Anna Pirri Valentini, Evan Rosevear, Irene Parra Prieto, Gustavo Buss, Johanna Fröhlich, Mariana Canales, Marianne Poehls Risco and many others. It will be a pleasure to continue working with them. Good things to come for ICON•S ! Fifth, it was my last conference as a Secretary General of ICON•S, working under the guidance of some of the best comparative constitutional law scholars in the world, the former co-presidents, Richard Albert and Marta Cartabia, and the deputy Secretary General, Michaela Hailbronner. I have been lucky to work with all the former co-presidents of ICON•S: Joseph Weiler, Sabino Cassese, Gráinne de Búrca, Ran Hirschl, Lorenzo Casini, and Rosalind Dixon. I had the best mentors! Sixth, the conference marked my start as a co-president of ICON•S, along with my friend Michaela Hailbronner, and the new Secretary General, the great Erin Delaney, one of the comparative constitutional law scholars I admire the most. The wonderful Amal Sethi, Anna Pirri Valentini, and Evan Rosevear, are the new deputy secretary generals. One cannot ask for a better team. Thanks so much to the ICON•S leadership for trusting me and to the ICON•S community for helping to build one of the most exciting and enriching organizations I have ever had the pleasure of being a part of.

⭕️📌 The 10th ICON•S Annual Conference is already underway since yesterday at #IETower, IE University in Madrid. The prestigious event organized and hosted by IE Law School this week focuses on ‘The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence’. 🎉More than 2,000 people registered for the conference from July 8th-10th and attended panels and talks yesterday leveraged by great public law professionals from around the world. ‘With this conference, we wish to contribute to strengthening the links within a global community of academics and jurists in all areas of public law, including international law, constitutional law, and administrative law. We believe that legal academics and professionals must play a relevant role in society, and that global issues such as sustainability and artificial intelligence, and their impact on society, should be discussed and analyzed from a public law perspective’, shared Soledad Atienza Becerril, Dean of IE Law School. ‘The ICON•S Annual Conference is the premiere festival of ideas for all areas of study in public law. You will be treated to hundreds of panels over the course of three days, covering a rich variety of subjects in administrative, constitutional, international law and beyond’, commented Richard Albert and Marta Cartabria, Co-Presidents of ICONS. Yesterday we enjoyed the Welcome and Opening Remarks by Fernando Pastor Merchante, Vice Dean of IE Law School, and Soledad Atienza, Dean of IE Law School. The keynote speech, ‘Human Rights in Times of Trouble: Some Reflections on Sustainability and Resilience’ was given by Siofra O’Leary, President of the European Court of Human Rights. The first Plenary Panel 'Sustainability, Climate Change and Human Rights’ welcomed insights from Imani Daud Aboud, President of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, Nancy Hernández, President of the Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos Corte IDH and Siofra O’Leary. It was moderated by Eleanor Sharpston, Advocate General at Court of Justice of the European Union. The day finished with a welcoming cocktail reception at the IE Tower Garden to allow colleagues to meet each other and share thoughts about the day. Many thanks to all the speakers, participants and collaborators for the success of this first day. 🗓️ Today we hope to enjoy another full day of experiences and learning. See you in the LGTBIQ+ Breakfast Reception and Women’s Lunch Reception, and all day in the Parallel sessions. Read the key information about de Conference: https://lnkd.in/eTxDbBzX

🎖️Muchas felicidades a C. Ignacio Giuffre, ganador del premio I•CON 2024 al artículo más destacado publicado en español. https://lnkd.in/g5AZSPzp