October 21-22, 2005
Friday 1:30-5:30 - Saturday: 9:00-5:00
206 Ingraham Hall - 1155 Observatory Drive
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Program
Friday, October 21, 2005
- 1:30 Welcome and Introductions
Heinz Klug
Professor of Law and Director of the Global Legal Studies Initiative - 1:45-2:45 Session #1: Building Constitutions: From Constitution-writing
to Interpretation
Professor Dr. Brun-Otto Bryde
Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
Professor of Public Law and Political Science, Justus Liebig-Universität Giessen
Yash Ghai
Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law and Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong
2005 Visiting Knowles Professor at the UW Law School - 2:45-3:00 Break
- 3:00-5:30 Session #2: Constitution-building in a Global Context
- 3:00-4:00 Panel A: Is there an Islamic constitutionalism?
Said Amir Arjomand
Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Asifa Quraishi
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School - 4:00-4:15 Break
- 4:15--5:30 Panel B: Indigenous and Community-based Constitution-building
Heinz Klug
Professor of Law and Director of the Global Legal Studies Initiative
Phil Knight
Free-lance Legislative Counsel
Richard Monette
Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School - 5:30 Adjourn
- 7:00 Dinner for participants and invited guests at the home of Pam and John
Hollenhorst
1018 Waban Hill, Madison (between Nakoma Rd. & Cherokee Dr.) Telephone 278-8002.
A taxi will pick up guests staying at the Friedrick Center – please convene in the lobby at 6:45.
Saturday, October 22, 2005
- 8:30 Coffee and Continental Breakfast
- 9:00-10:30 Session 3: Democratic Participation and Constitution-building.
Ronalda Murphy
Associate Professor of Law, Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Christina Murray
Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law
University of Cape Town
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Coimbra, Portugal
ILS Distinguished Scholar, University of Wisconsin Law School - 10:30-10:45 Break
- 10:45-12:15 Session 4: Courts and Constitution-building
Bojan Bugaric
Associate Professor of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Visiting Scholar, Harvard Center for European Studies (2005)
Alexei Trochev
Research Associate, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
Queen's University, Canada
Mauricio Villegas
Professor of Constitutional Law and Sociology of Law
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá - 12:15-1:30 Buffet Lunch for panelists and attendees in Ingraham Hall
- 1:30-3:00 Session 5: Constitutional Change
Julio Faundez
Professor of Law, Warwick University
Rodolfo Figueroa
Faculty of Law, University of Diego Portales Law School, Santiago
Miguel Schor
Assistant Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School - 3:00-3:15 Break
- 3:15-4:45 Session 6: Constitutions and Crisis
Jill Cottrell
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Guido Galli
Manager, Constitution-building Programme
Democracy Building and Conflict Management Department
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Kim Lane Scheppele
Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University - 4:45 Closing Remarks: Heinz Klug and Yash Ghai
Adjourn - 7:00 Dinner for participants and invited guests at Chautara Restaurant
334 State Street (2nd floor).
The Global Legal Studies Initiative (GLSI) is a joint project of the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Division of International Studies. Through this initiative, the Law School and International Studies work together to promote the understanding of international, transnational, and comparative legal systems, processes and regimes and disseminate this knowledge to students and constituencies on and off campus. To launch this effort, GLSI, in conjunction with other entities on campus, sponsored a series of events in Fall 2004 about "Law and Global Transformations." In Fall 2005, GLSI planned a week-long focus on constitutional issues, including a workshop on Constitution-building in Africa post-1989, the Harnack-Fish Human Rights Lecture delivered by Professor Brun-Otto Bryde, Justice of the German Constitutional Court, as well as the second workshop on comparative constitutional issues. GLSI receives ongoing support from the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and the East Asian Legal Studies Center (EALSC), and is based at the Institute for Legal Studies (ILS). Additional information can be found at http://law.wisc.edu/gls/.
