Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Sessions I
Rhetoric, Interpretation, and Constitutional Identity
- Eva Yvonne van Vugt and Maarten Stremler
— Constitutional Change Through Political Discourse
- Octaviano Padovese de Arruda
— The Politics of Constitutional Interpretation: “Nomos” and Rhetoric in the Age of Constitutional Change
- Pedro Caminos
— Constitutional Law as Juristenrecht
- Lawrence David
— The Two-Output Model of Judicial Review and Constitutional Stare Decisis at the Supreme Court of Canada
- Oren Tamir
— Demystifing Norms (and What to Do with Them)
- Chair: Fruzsina Gardos-Orosz
Strong Executives: From Presidentialist to Authoritarian
- Akif Togel
— Constitutional Change in Turkey: Is a New Amendment Necessary?
- David M. Driesen
— The Unitary Executive in Comparative Context
- Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
— Multiparty Coalitional Presidentialism and the Paradoxes of Constitutional Change
- Mohamed ‘Arafa
— Constitutions in a Unconstitutional World: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- Benjamin Alemparte
— Institutional Capture of Constitution-Making Processes: Chile’s Constitutional Failure as a Case Study
- Chair: Yaniv Roznai
The Theory of Constitutional Change
- Renato Saeger Magalhaes Costa
— Legitimacy and Constitutional Change in Karl Loewenstein`s Ontological Classification of Constitutions
- Mikolaj Barczentewicz
— What are constituent powers and amendment powers? The Hartian answer
- Keigo Komamura
— August Revolution, February Coup d’Etat, and November Revolution – How to Theorize the Legitimacy of the Postwar ‘Imposed’ Constitution of Japan
- Tokujin Matsudaira
— Reception of Carl Schmitt in the East Asia
- Monika Polzin
— Maurice Hauriou – The Almost Forgotten French Theorist on Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
- Rivka Weill
— From Earl Grey to Boris Johnson: Brexit and the Anglo-American Constitutional Model
- Chair: Oran Doyle
Temporal Aspects of Constitutional Change
- Shamshad Pasarlay
— Political Short-Termism and Constitution-Making Processes in Afghanistan
- Gonzalo Ramirez
— The Methodology of the Substitution Doctrine in Colombia
- Zsolt Szabó
— Constitution Making in Hungary Between 1989-2019: Missed Constitutional Momentums, Struggles Between State Powers
- Eleonora Bottini
— Modernizing Constitutions: A Comparative Analysis of Justifications for Constitutional Reforms
- Chair: Cody Vaughn
Issues in American Constitutionalism
- Mark A. Graber
— The Constitution of the Civil Rights Act of 1871/1875
- Eric Segall
— The Inevitability of Judicially Created Constitutional Change in the United States Based on Values not Law
- David Orentlicher
— Supreme Court Decision-Making: Learning from Other Countries and the U.S. Jury
- Yuvraj Joshi
— Racial Transition
- Joel Goldstein
— The Varied Paths of American Constitutional Change: The Case of Presidential Succession and Inability
- Chair: H. W. Perry, Jr.
Constrained Courts
- Rafaela Teixeira Sena Neves
— The Institutional Rules that Impact on the Interpretation of the Supreme Courts: A Comparative Analysis Among Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
- Ignatius Yordan Nugraha
— The Indonesian “LGBT” Case: A Commentary on Expressivist Reasoning and Constitutional Change through Judicial Reinterpretation
- Maria Lorena Gonzalez Tocci
— The Role and Influence of Precedent in Constitutional Decision Making: A Perspective View From the Argentinean Case Law
- Gürkan Çapar
— A Recipe for Conflicts of Competence: Balancing Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments
- Thales Alessandro Dias Pereira
— Dissent and Constitutional Jurisdiction: An Analysis of the Argumentative Evolution in ADFP 54, DAU 5581 and ADFP 442
- Chair: Joseph Cozza
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Concurrent Sessions II
Topics in Constitutional Interpretation
- Howard Schweber
— The Hermeneutics of Constitutional Amendments
- Michael Glenn Ditmore
— Planned Expiration, Amendment, Judicial Review, and … Redaction?: Textual Considerations of the United States Constitution’s Printedness (and Not)
- Enrico Andreoli
— Scholarly Interpretation as a Form of Constitutional Amendment: The United States Supreme Court
- Harun Iseric
— Continental Judicial interpretation of Anglo-Saxon Constitution: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Chair: Corey Herndon
Constitutional Evolution of Rights
- Gonzalo Moreno
— Measuring Constitutional Evolution and Change: Comparative Quantitative Results
- Hafiz Ghulam Abbas
— Amendments
- Bernardo Ignacio Pulido Marquez
— Open Constitutional Clauses Recognizing Rights Beyond the Constitution: A Comparative Analysis of Clauses in the Latin-American Constitutions Expanding Rights Catalogs
- Alicia Stone
— Right or No Right: Enforceability of Opening Sections of Bills of Rights in Commonwealth Caribbean Constitutions
- Clare O’Hare
— The Other Side of the Marriage Debate: Views from Across the Atlantic on the Constitutional Definition of Marriage – Secular or Religious?
- Chair: Lauren Fielder
The Politics of Constitutional Change
- Gordon P. DiGiacomo
— Opening the Canadian Constitution: Breathing New Life Into the Federation? Not Likely
- Jurgen Goossens
— Popular Constitution-Making: Constitutional Design of Secondary Constituent Powers
- Leiv Marsteintredet
— The Constitutions of the Dominican Republic: Between aspirations and realities
- Giovanni Piccirilli and Nicola Lupo
— Political Choices shaping the Italian “Multi-Track” Procedure for Constitutional Amendments
- Andrea Pozas-Loyo and Camilo Saavedra-Herrera
— One Hundred Years Interpreting the Ship of Theseus: Constitutional Hyper-reformism in the Mexican Supreme Court (1917-2017)
- Chair: Richard Albert
Transnational Constitutionalism
- Eleonora Ceccherini
— Internationalization of Constitutions: A Shift in Modern Constitutionalism
- Vijayashri Sripati
— Global Power through Constitution-Promotion: United Nations Constitutional Assistance (1949-2019)
- Ilana Rothkopf
— Domestic Constitutional Courts and the International Court of Justice 1946-2012 : Islamic Law States
- Atagun Mert Kejanlioglu
— International Human Rights Against Abusive Constitutional Change: A Solution Or A Dead End?
- Wim Voermans
— Constitutional families and lookalikes? Convergence in Modern National Constitutions
- Chair: William Stutts
Constituent Power, Legitimacy, and Procedures
- Joshua Braver
— Legalizing Revolution: The American State Doctrine of Constitution-Making
- Domingo Lovera-Parmo and Pablo Contreras
— A constituted constituent power? Chile’s failure to replace Pinochet’s constitution
- Jeffrey A. Lenowitz and Caleb Yong
— Extraordinary Constitution-Making and Populism: Shared Foundations, Shared Faults
- Jorge M. Farinacci-Fernós
— The Constitution is Dead, Long Live the Constitution
- Guilherme Sena de Assunção
— Reason and Will: The Transition from Rational-Legal Legitimacy to Judicial Populism
- Chair: Sarah Guimaraes
Wealth, Power, and Constitutionalism
- Ramon de Jesus Jorge Taveras
— Social Constitutionalism and Labor Law Reform in the Dominican Republic
- Antonio Maues
— Constitutional Change and Distributive Conflict: The Case of Brazil
- Ana Carolina Couto Pereira Pinto Barbosa
— Capital, Authoritarianism and Democracy: The Role of Brazilian Bankers in the Constitutional Changing Process of 1987-88
- Masahiko Kinoshita
— Constitutional Economic Design for Making Democracy: Case Study of Japanese Economic Reform after World War II
- Tladi Marumo
— South Africa’s Nkala Class Settlement: Contractualized Constitutional Justice
- Chair: Gowthaman Ranganathan
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Concurrent Sessions III
Post-Conflict Constitution-Making
- Tarik Olcay and Asli Ozcelik
— Constitutional Duty and Aspiration: Balancing Peace and the Rule of Law in the Shadow of Violence
- Onur Bakiner
— Peace-Making as Constitution-Making: The Case of Colombia`s Peace Agreement (2016)
- John Morison
— Bringing Together Constitutional Traditions in Ireland, North and South after Brexit?
- Fruzsina Gardos-Orosz and Zoltán Szente
— Constitution-Making Processes in Europe since the Second World War
- Mohammad Bashir Mobasher
— Centrifugal Practices and Centripetal Tendencies: An Overview of Political Practices, Ideals & Laws in Afghanistan
- Chair: Ashley McIlvain Moran
Transformative Constitutionalism
- Nikhil Purohit and Aditya Prasanna Bhattacharya
— Viewing the ‘Basic Structure’ Doctrine as an instance of Transformative Constitutionalism: A Comparative Study between the Global North & the Global South
- Konstantinos Stratilatis and Papastylianos Christos
— External Unamendability and Judicial Amendability in Cyprus
- Nihad Odobasic
— Reformist Role of Foreign Judges on Constitutional courts: Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Rebecca Groterhorst
— The Implementation of Transformative Decisions in Latin America: Rethinking the Role of Constitutional Courts
- Neliana Rodean
— Constitutional Transplants in Romania: From a “Belgian” to a “French” Constitution
- Chair: Daniel M. Brinks
Egalitarianism Across Subject Matter
- Christopher Rowe
— Insular Constitutionalism: 10 Years of the UK Supreme Court
- Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas
— Extraordinary Statutes: The Constitution of Health Care in Three Tales
- Fahad Alzumai
— Constitutional Courts in the Arab World and Freedom of Expression: A Defender or Suppressor?
- Maricel Judith Asar
— Reinterpreting the Principle of Separation of Powers in Pursuit of an Egalitarian Constitutionalism
- Ilhyung Lee
— Comparative Perspectives on Offensive Trademarks
- Chair: Ana Beatriz Vanzoff Robalinho Cavalcanti
Local Government, Territoriality, and Constitutionalism
- Sumit Sonkar
— Contesting an Uncontested Issue: Demystifying Powers of Panchayats after 73rd Amendment
- Gjyljeta Mushkolaj
— Constitutional Design of Local Government and the Right of Municipalities to Freedom of Association: The Case of Kosovo
- Wade Wright
— Canadian Federalism’s Underlying Question: What It Is and Why It Matters
- Oran Doyle
— Territory, Constitution-Making, Constitutional Space, and Constituent Power
- Brice Dickson
— The Impact of Devolution and Brexit on the UK’s Unwritten Constitution
- Zoran Oklopcic
— Federalism, Democracy, and the ‘uncanny valley’ of Canadian Constitutionalism
- Chair: Anna Fruhstorfer
Ineffectual Constitutions
- Tinashe Calton Chigwata
— The 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe: A Failed Constitutional Reform Process?
- Andres Fernando Mejia Restrepo
— Excessive Use of Constitutional Reform in Colombia
- Tajudeen Sanni
— Neopatrimoialism and Rule of Law in Nigerian and Ugan Constitutional Paradigms
- Humberto Briceno
— Constitutional Paradox Venezuela
- Rafael Macía Briedis
— Constitutional Self-Negation in Venezuela: A Case-Study of Constituent Power in Action
- Chair: Ana Bobic
Constitutionalism and Justice
- Beverley Baines and Jenna Sapiano
— A Gender Analysis of the Canadian Proportionality Doctrine
- Luna Borges Pereira Santos
— Zika Virus, Public Health, and Abortion in Brazil: Constitutional Interpretation through a Reproductive Justice Framework
- Shireen Morris
— A First Nations Voice in the Australian Constitution: Lessons from New Zealand and Canada
- Mohit Panchal
— Constitutional Change and Group Rights: A Perspective from India
- Prabhpreet Singh
— Constitutionalism: A Perspective of Dignity
- Chair: Jurgen Goossens
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Concurrent Sessions IV
Legitimacy, Public Participation, and Process
- Joseph Cozza
— Trust the Process: Procedural Legitimacy and Democratic Decision-Making in Constitutional Change
- Derek O’Brien
— Participatory Democracy and Post-Colonial Constitution-Making in the Commonwealth Caribbean
- Tofigh Maboudi
— Participation, Inclusion, and the Democratic Content of Constitutions
- Marny A. Requa
— Contested Governance: Constitution Change and Abortion Law in Chile and Ireland
- Fabio Pacini
— Securing “Functional” Legal Eternity in Italy and Germany: Electoral Legislation and Free Parliamentary Mandate
- Carol Howells
— Referendums as a Driver for Constitutional Change: Crisis, Change and Democracy: The UK Experience
- Chair: Cody Lee Vaughn
Uncodified Rules, Norms, and Values
- Eugenio Velasco Ibarra
— Mexico`s Other Constitutional Transformation: A Legal Analysis of the Political Constitution
- Thomas McMorrow
— Denying and Reckoning with Implicit Law
- Jalila Jefferson-Bullock
— The Myth of Good Character and the Politics of Perception
- Stefanus Hendrianto
— Amending Constitutional Soul: A Legal Philosophical Investigation
- Chair: Corey Herndon
Anti-Democratic and Illiberal Movements
- Pablo Raúl García Reyes
— Non-Regression and Unconstitutional Amendments in the Mexican Constitution
- Ana Beatriz Vanzoff Robalinho Cavalcanti
— Then and Now: Constitutional Courts in Times of Democratic Transitions and Crises
- Pieter Van Malleghem
— Constitutionalization as a Symbolic Practice: Reflections on EU Constitutionalism
- Anna Fruhstorfer
— Autocratic Stability and Constitutional Politics
- Hedayat Heikal
— The Authoritarian Turn: Four Problems for Comparative Constitutional Law
- Chair: Paz Avila
Controversies in Judicial Review
- Manoj Mate
— Revolutionary Constitutional Entrenchment and Judicial Review
- Mario Alberto Cajas Sarria
— Defending the Judiciary?: Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments on the Judiciary in Colombia
- Younsik Kim
— The Role of the Constitutional Court on the Front Line between Law and Politics: Lessons from Two Impeachment Cases in Korea
- Simon Drugda
— Reflections on Constitutional Unamendability: View from the 2019 Selection Hearings for Slovak Constitutional Court Judges
- Ana Bobic
— Theorising the Principle of Solidarity in the EU’s Economic Constitution
- Chair: Howard Schweber
Constitutional Struggle
- Cho Kiu Chiang
— Chaotic Constitution Unmaking and Making by Force and Arms: The Case of Hong Kong
- Michael Wasco
— Policing in a Democratic Constitution
- Minh Tuan Dang
— Towards a Constitutional Democracy in Vietnam: An Analysis of the Constitutional Amendment of 2013
- Eman Muhammad Rashwan
— Revolutionary and Constitutional Legitimacy, Borderlines and Practical Implications (Case Study of Egypt and Tunisia after the 2011 Revolutions)
- Danielle C. Jefferis
— The Civil Detention Fallacy
- Chair: Alejandro Dermody-McKeen
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