IACL/AIDC Research Group on Public Law Responses to Public Health Emergencies – Research Plans, Objectives and Call for New Members

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IACL/AIDC Research Group on Public Law Responses to Public Health Emergencies – Research Plans, Objectives and Call for New Members

Juliano Zaiden BENVINDO, Oran DOYLE & Chiara GRAZIANI

The IACL/AIDC Research Group on Public Law Responses to Public Health Emergencies, that we are honoured to co-chair, is a research hub with two main ambitions. The first and more short-term one is to provide a forum for scholarly research into public law…

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The Dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative Council by the Palestinian Constitutional Court: A Missed Opportunity for Reform

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The Dissolution of the Palestinian Legislative Council by the Palestinian Constitutional Court: A Missed Opportunity for Reform

Sanaa ALSARGHALI

On 14 June 2007, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas used the Palestinian temporary constitutional document - the Basic Law (BL) - to declare a thirty-day state of emergency. This declaration followed the unexpected 2006 election of Hamas – a political party viewed as being ‘terrorist’…

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Has Samoa Weathered a Constitutional Storm and Reached a Constitutional Compromise Between Tradition and Democratic Government?

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Has Samoa Weathered a Constitutional Storm and Reached a Constitutional Compromise Between Tradition and Democratic Government?

Sue FARRAN

The Pacific Island state of Samoa (formerly Western Samoa) is currently facing a constitutional crisis. Located in the southern Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and New Zealand, with a population around 200,000, the islands of Western Samoa were annexed by Germany in…

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