The workshop “Constitution-Building in Comparative Perspective” will be held
October 21-22, 2005, at 206 Ingraham Hall on the UW-Madison campus.
The two-day workshop is sponsored by the Global Legal Studies Initiative and the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA). Sessions will be Friday from 1:30 to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Hosts will be Professor 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, 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 the integrated processes of political, economic and social change surrounding the building of new constitutions. Guest speakers include distinguished scholars, judges, and policymakers: Said Arjomand (SUNY-Stony Brook), Bojan Bugaric (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Brun-Otto Bryde (Constitutional Court of Germany), Jill Cottrell (Hong Kong), Rohan Erdisinha (Colombo, Sri Lanka), Julio Faundez (Warwick, UK), Rodolfo Figueroa (Diego Portales, Santiago), Phil Knight (British Columbia), Tayyab Mahmud (John Marshall), Ronalda Murphy (Dalhousie), Christina Murray (Cape Town), Boaventura de Sousa Santos (Coimbra, Portugal), Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton), Miguel Schor (Suffolk), Alexei Trochev (Toronto), and Mauricio Villegas (National, Bogota). UW speakers include Asifa Quraishi and Richard Monette (Law).
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. Events include a workshop Constitution-building in Africa post 1989", Oct. 15-16, and the Harnack-Fish human rights lecture by Professor Brun-Otto Bryde, Justice of the German Constitutional Court, on the afternoon of Oct. 19. Both events are scheduled at the Law School.
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 October 12, 2005
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