comparative constitutional culture workshop

Global Governance ProGramme

conference

Comparative Constitutional Cultures the Case of Constitutional self-Government

Coordinators: Hugo Cyr and Paul Kahn

Badia Fiesolana - Sala del CapitoloVia Roccettini, 9 – San Domenico di Fiesole

ProGramme Florence, 19 – 20 January 2012

Thursday, 19 January

09.30-11.00 Paul Kahn | Yale Law School Miguel Poiares Maduro | European University Institute Constitutional Cultures: One’s Own and One’s Borrowed

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-13.00 Martin Bohmer | Universidad de San Andres Alejandro Madrazo Lajous | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico The Constitutions of Order and Disorder

13.00-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.00 Fernando Muñoz León | Universidad Austral de Chile Menachem Mautner | Tel Aviv University Constitutions and Conflicts

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-18.00 Benjamin Berger | Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, via SKYPE Hugo Cyr | Université du Québec à Montréal Competing Constitutional Narratives: The Case of Canada

20.30 Welcome dinner (Professor Maduro’s House)

Friday, 20 January

09.15-10.45 Guillaume Tusseau | Science Po François-Xavier Millet | European University Institute Competing Constitutional Narratives: France and the development of “Constitutional Identities”

10.45-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-13.30 Mateo Taussig-Rubbo | State University of New York, Buffalo Law School Grégoire Webber | London School of Economics, via SKYPE What Kind of “Thing” is a Constitution? Paradigmatic Models

13.30-15.30 Lunch

15.30-17.00 Discussion about the publication of the papers

17.00 Coffee break and Departure of the participants

Participants

Benjamin Berger York University, Canada bberger@osgoode.yorku.ca

Martín Frederico Böhmer San Andrés, Argentina mbohmer@udesa.edu.ar

Hugo Cyr (coordinator) Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada cyr.hugo@uqam.ca

Paul W. Kahn (coordinator) Yale Law School, USA paul.kahn@yale.edu

Alejandro Madrazo Lajous Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico alejandro@madrazolajous.com

Miguel Maduro European University Institute, Italy miguel.maduro@eui.eu

Menachem Mautner Tel Aviv University, Israel mautner@post.tau.ac.il

François-Xavier Millet European University Institute, Italy francois-xavier.millet@eui.eu

Fernando Javier León Muñoz Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile fernando.munoz@uach.cl

Mateo Taussig-Rubbo State University of New York, Buffalo School of Law, USA taussig@buffalo.edu

Guillaume Tusseau Sciences Po, France guillaume.tusseau@sciences-po.org

Grégoire Webber London School of Economics and Political Science, UK g.webber@lse.ac.uk