idw - Informationsdienst
Wissenschaft
01/28/2011 - 01/28/2011 | Berlin
9-9.30 am - Registration and Coffee
9.30-10 am - Introduction and Welcome
10 am-12:30 pm - Panel 1
Rethinking the Foundations of Constitutional Authority: Constituent Power, Self-Government, Rights-Based Public Reason
David Dyzenhaus (Toronto)
Aharon Barak (Herzliya)
Alexander Somek (Iowa)
Chair: Mattias Kumm (New York/ Berlin)
12.30-2 pm - Lunch break
2-4:30 pm - Panel 2
Constitutionalism and the Legal World Beyond the State
Jean Cohen (New York)
Jan Komarek (London)
Miguel Maduro (Florence)
Vlad Perju (Boston)
Andreas Paulus (Karlsruhe/Göttingen)
Chair: Tony Lang (St. Andrews)
4:30-5 pm - Coffee break
5-7 pm - Roundtable
Back to Basics: What Is Constitutionalism?
Background and/or position papers with brief presentations
Christoph Möllers (Berlin),
Ingolf Pernice (Berlin) and
Nico Krisch (Berlin)
Chair: Antje Wiener (Hamburg)
afterwards- Dinner for panelists
The conference seeks to rethink basic issues of constitutional theory in light of contemporary challenges, that have been sidelined and obscured by the generally statist focus of traditional constitutional theory. Among the questions that will be examined are: Can a constituent power, which is exclusively national, be the ground for the constitutions claim to legitimate authority? How can constitutional theory contribute to a normative understanding of borders? How is the relationship between national and international law to be conceived within constitutional theory? If constitutionalism is more than legalization, under what conditions is it reasonable to speak of "constitutionalism beyond the state", say in connection with the European Union or the UN? And what are the practical consequences?
The conference is organized by:
Prof. Dr. Mattias Kumm
Social Science Research Center Berlin
Conference website: http://cosmopolis.wzb.eu
Guests are very welcome!
Information on participating / attending:
Please register with
Hilde Ottschofski
Phone: +49 (0) 30 -25491-285/256
Fax: +49 (0) 30 -25491-542
E-mail: ottschofski@wzb.eu
Date:
01/28/2011 09:00 - 01/28/2011 19:00
Event venue:
January 28, 2011, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Law, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
01/13/2011
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Informations- und Kommunikationsreferat
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event33760
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