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18 Int'l J. Const. L. 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/injcl18 and id is 1 raw text is: © The Author(s) 2020. Oxford University Press and New York University School of Law. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com Editorial Editorial: COVID-19 and I-CON; Guest Editorial: Courts' relations; Once upon a time in Catalonia ...; In this issue COVID-19 and I-CON We are pulled in opposite directions in the face of a global upending of normal life. At one level it is reassuring, even if hunkered down at home, as is our editorial team in three different countries, to continue serenely with our normal work in the face of such abnormal times. The life of the mind, the scholarly endeavor continuing-even when juggled with caring responsibilities-not least as an act of faith in better times to come. Unlike war-a metaphor that is widely used and abused-we are not faced by the actions of evil men and women against whom one should rise in indignant pro- test. Yes, incompetence and irresponsibility might have played a role, but one should not rush to throw the first stone. With time such issues can be and will be sorted out. And yet, in the face of spreading death and imploding economic circumstances on a truly global scale, to continue as if nothing is happening would be unacceptable and would border on the callous. That grave consideration apart, there are obvious issues of public law for which ICON should be a forum for serious reflection. Do we wait till the dust settles, the crisis is overcome and then turn with distance and perspective to serious and rigorous reflection and analysis? In some respects, one does not have that luxury-there are issues happening in real time that will not wait for that perspectival reflection and on which we are all looking for ongoing insight and understanding. It is our fortune at ICON that we do not have to face that choice. ICONnect, our sister blog and website, has never been a locus of gossip or from the hip commen- tary. It is a forum, as is proven week in and week out, for brief but incisive legal com- mentary, oftentimes of the indispensable doctrinal genre (legal or illegal) in which immediate reactions to the COVID-19 crisis have already appeared and will continue to appear. The deeper reflection, conceptual and theoretical, doctrinal and otherwise, will appear organically in ICON as time passes and the community of scholars engage with this perspectival dimension to our work. ICON is a community-of readers and authors. We continue to connect with and support one another as part of that scholarly community through these difficult times. Remember our collective and individual resilience, and know that we will even- tually emerge on the other side. In the meantime, Keep Safe! We would like to end by publishing here, with the permission of the poetess, Lynn Ungar (http://www.lynnungar.com/) her evocative poem Pandemic. It speaks for itself. I-CON (2020), Vol. 18 No. 1, 1-14 doi:10.1093/icon/moaa016

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