Předvánoční ústavněprávní orgie v Mexico City

Níže připojuji program VIII. Světového kongresu Mezinárodní asociace ústavního práva, který se bude konat ve dnech 5-10. prosince 2010 v Mexico City. Program je velmi bohatý. Namátkou vybírám workshopy o principu proporcionality, federalismu, dělbě moci či metodologii srovnávacího ústavního práva. Pokud jde o sestavu "speakerů", ta je rovněž impresivní. Mezi přednášejícími najdeme jména jako Aharon Barak, Ran Hirschl, Vicki Jackson, Andras Sajó, Lech Garlicki, Michel Rosenfeld, Guy Canivet, Jutta Limbach, Cheryl Saunders, Victor Fererras Comella, Michel Troper či Bruce Ackermann. Jak vidno, destinace je to sice vzdálená, ale určitě to bude stát za to.

A teď ten slíbený program:

SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER 2010

Registration of participants

18:00
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the IACL

20:00
Welcome reception for the IACL members


MONDAY 6 DECEMBER 2010

8:15 - 9:30
Registration of participants

9:30 - 12:00
Opening session
Opening statements from host country representatives
President of the organising committee

President of the IACL

President of the IACL programme commission

13:00
Lunch

Afternoon session
15:00 - 17:30

Plenary Session I
Philosophical perspectives on principles in constitutional law

Principles increasingly have a prominent place in constitutional law and constitutional discourse. Principles can be defined at a very abstract level but also applied in a very specific context. Often principles are referred to as norms that are valid within a normative system as a whole, rather than characterized by a specific scope of application. Hence, they can be identified in all normative systems, including in law, morality, theology etc. How can principles be distinguished from other types of norms, or from empirical statements that are relevant for the application of norms? What is the relationship between principles, values, rules, policies and facts? What can lawyers learn from philosophers about the nature of principles and the methods of resolving conflicts or tensions between them?

Chair:
Carla Huerta
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM

Panellists:
Leslie Green
Balliol College, Oxford University

Michel Troper
Université Paris X - Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense

Ulrich Preuss
Freie Universität Berlin

Bruce Ackerman
Yale Law School

Samantha Besson
University of Fribourg, Switzerland


TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2010

Morning session
9:30 - 13:00
Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30

Workshops

1. Electoral systems and constitutional principles *

Chairs:
Manuel González Oropeza
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM

Christina Murray
University of Cape Town

Nadia Bernoussi
École Nationale d'Administration, Rabat

2. Old authoritarian constitutions and new democratic systems *

Chairs:
Ana Laura Magaloni
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México

Slobodan Milacic
Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV

Gianni Buquicchio
President of the Venice Commission (Conseil de l’Europe)

3. Media and Constitutional Principles

Chairs:
Cesare Pinelli
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’

Yasuo Hasebe
University of Tokyo

4. Divided societies and constitutional principles

Chairs:
Iain Currie
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Rohan Edrisinha
Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka

5. Subnational constitutions

Chairs:
Mo Jihong
Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Robert Williams
Rutgers University School of Law

Francis Delpérée
Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve

6. The rule of law in the age of terrorism

Chairs:
Martin Scheinin
European University Institute, Florence

Suzi Navot
Collège de Droit, Rishon Letsyon, Israel

13:00
Lunch

Afternoon session
14:30 - 17:00

Plenary session II:
Constitutional law and the generation and use of principles

How do principles operate within constitutional law? What is the role of principles in diverse legal traditions such as common law, civil law, customary and other legal traditions? What is the notion and role of 'the people' in the creation, modification and overriding of constitutional principles?

Chair:
Cheryl Saunders
University of Melbourne

Panellists:
Michel Rosenfeld
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York

Diego Valadés
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM

Yu Xingzhong
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Victor Ferreres
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Armin von Bogdandy
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg


WEDNESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2010

Morning session
9:30 - 13:00
Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30

Workshops

7. Multiculturalism and indigenous peoples’ rights *

Chairs:
Menaka Guruswamy
Avocat, New Delhi

Ghislain Otis
Université d'Ottawa

Francisco Ibarra Palafox
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM

8. Is Federalism a Constitutional Principle? *

Chairs:
Vicki Jackson
Georgetown University School of Law

Olivier Beaud
Université de Paris II - Panthéon-Assas

José María Serna de la Garza
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM

9. Proportionality as a principle

Chairs:
Rodrigo Uprimny
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá

Bertrand Mathieu
Université de Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne

10. Indivisibility of human rights

Chairs:
Julia Iliopoulos-Strangas
Université d’Athènes

Cho Byung-Yoon
Myongji University, Seoul

11. Religion and the State

Chairs:
Susanna Mancini
Università di Bologna

Michel Rosenfeld
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York

12. Foreign law: jurisprudence crossfertilization

Chairs:
Tania Groppi
Università di Siena

Marie-Claire Ponthoreau
Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV

13:00
Lunch

Afternoon session
14:00 - 17:00

MEETINGS OF RESEARCH GROUPS AND REGIONAL GROUPS

For your information, certain thematic meetings for groups from different regions of the world have been planned prior to the program. Other registered participants are welcome to call similar meetings. Given that some of these meetings will be carried out informally, these activities will not be included in program.

14:00 - 15:45
European Network of Constitutional Lawyers
Workshop on ‘Values in the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts of central and eastern Europe’

Chairs:
Rainer Arnold
University of Regensburg

Evgenyj Tanchev
Cour Constitutionnelle de Bulgarie

16:00 - 18:45
Meeting of the Council of the IACL


THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER 2010

Morning session
9:30 - 13:00
Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30

Plenary Sesssion III
Principles: universal, particular?

To what extent do constitutional principles make a claim of universality, in time and space? Can constitutional principles with presumed universal validity be identified with universal human rights and peremptory norms of international law (jus cogens)? Can principles be absolute? Are principles converging or diverging? Do universal principles provide a solution to the challenges of particularism and legal pluralism in multicultural societies?

Chair:
Claude Klein
Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Panellists:
Ayelet Shachar
University of Toronto

Sandy Liebenberg
Stellenbosch University

Pratap Mehta
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Slim Laghmani
Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales de Tunis

Hilary Charlesworth
The Australian National University College of Law

13:00
Lunch

Afternoon session
14:30 - 17:00

Workshops

13. New trends in Latin American Constitutional Law *

Chairs:
Miguel Carbonell
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM

Giuseppe De Vergottini
Università di Bologna

Marcelo Figueiredo
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

14. The principle of separation of powers reviewed *

Chairs:
Charles Fombad
University of Pretoria

Eivind Smith
Université d’Oslo

Antonio María Hernández
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

15. The impact of international law on constitutional principles

Chairs:
Raul Pangalangan
University of the Philippines

Ibrahim Kaboğlu
Université de Marmara

16. Constitutional Principles and democratic transition

Chairs:
Javier Couso
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago

Lech Garlicki
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

17. How comparative is comparative constitutional law?

Chairs:
Ran Hirschl
University of Toronto

Constance Grewe
Université de Strasbourg

18. Constitutional implications of regional integration

Chairs:
Daniel Sabsay
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Rainer Grote
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

Thomas Fleiner
Université de Fribourg, Suisse


FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2010

Morning session
9:30 - 13:00
Coffee break 11:00 - 11:30

Plenary session IV
Constitutional Principles and the Judge

To compare deductive traditions of deriving supra- or meta-constitutional principles from the values behind or above the written Constitution with inductive traditions of identifying common principles in individual cases and gradually recognizing their constitutional nature. Do courts refer to principles? Is there commonality in the judicial use of principles, or can we develop a typology of clearly distinct ways of referring to principles? What are the constitutional principles most often referred to by judges? What is the degree of cross-fertilization between legal systems when referring to principles?

Chair:
Andras Sajó
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Panellists:
José Ramón Cossío
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico

Aharon Barak
Former President of the Supreme Court of Israel

Jutta Limbach
Former President of the German Federal Constitutional Court

Babacar Kanté
Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Senegal

Sian Elias
Chief Justice of New Zealand

Guy Canivet
Membre du Conseil Constitutionnel de la République Française

Closing Session