The workshop “Constitution-building in Africa post-1989” will be held Saturday and Sunday, October 15-16, 2005, at the University of Wisconsin Law School, co-sponsored by the UW-Madison's Global Legal Studies Initiative and African Studies Program.

Saturday’s sessions will run from 9 a.m. to 5:30, and Sunday’s from 9 a.m. to 12:15, all in Lubar Commons (Room 7200) at the Law School.

The workshop will be hosted by Yash Ghai (Sir Y. K. Pao Chair in Public Law and Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and 2005 Visiting Knowles Professor at the UW Law School) and Heinz Klug (UW Professor of Law and Director of the Global Legal Studies Initiative).

The workshop will bring together a group of academics and practitioners to focus attention on constitution-building and conflict resolution in Africa. Guest speakers include distinguished scholars, judges, and policymakers: Said Arjomand (SUNY-Stony Brook), Luka Biong Deng (Sudan), Nicholas Haysom (South Africa), G. W. Kanyeihamba (Supreme Court of Uganda), Michael Lueth (Sudan), Christina Murray (Cape Town), Makau Mutua (SUNY-Buffalo), Willy Mutunga (Kenyan Human Rights Commission), Muna Ndulo (Cornell), Henry Onoria (Makerere, Uganda), Chris Maina Peter (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra, Portugal), Bereket Selassie (UNC-Chapel Hill), Richard Simeon (Toronto), and Jennifer Widner (Princeton). UW speakers include Aloys Habimana (Visiting Human Rights Practitioner), as well as Scott Straus and Crawford Young (Political Science).

The workshop is supported in part by the Ford Foundation (Kenya).

Registration: This workshop is free and open to faculty and students, but space is limited. Advance registration is strongly encouraged but not required. If you plan to attend, please contact Pam Hollenhorst, Assoc. Dir., Institute for Legal Studies, at pshollen@wisc.edu.

Related Events: This workshop is part of a week-long series that focuses on constitutional issues, including the Harnack-Fish human rights lecture, which will be delivered at the UW Law School by Professor Brun-Otto Bryde, Justice of the German Constitutional Court, on the afternoon of October 19, as well as a second workshop on comparative constitutional issues the following weekend, October 21-22, which will take place in 206 Ingraham Hall.

The Global Legal Studies Initiative (GLSI) is a joint project of the University of Wisconsin Law School and the Office of International Studies and Programs. 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. 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://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/glsi/index.htm with details for upcoming events posted on the ILS events calendar: http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/events_at_the_institute.htm.

Submitted by on September 28, 2005

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