Constitutional Change Conference 2020

January 1718, 2020

Schedule

January 17, 2020

Time Session Information
9:00am

Welcoming Remarks

Eidman Courtroom

Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

9:05am

Plenary Lecture -- "How Constitution Makers Borrow Ideas (and Why it Matters)"

Eidman Courtroom

Zachary Elkins
Associate Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

9:55am

Break

10:10am

Plenary Lecture -- "Preservation and Transformation: The Inevitable Tension in Constitution Formation and Constitutional Amendment"

Eidman Courtroom

Sanford Levinson
St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair and Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

11:00am

Break

11:15am

Plenary Book Panel -- Gary Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai, “Constitutional Revolution” (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2020)

Eidman Courtroom

Chair:

Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Panelists:

Rhonda Evans
Senior Lecturer and Director-Edward A. Clark Center for Australia and New Zealand Studies
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
Director and Senior Research Fellow
MTA TK Institute for Legal Studies

 

Mark Graber
University System of Maryland Regents Professor
University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law 

 

Anna Fruhstorfer
Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics
Freie Universität Berlin

 

Jeffrey Tulis
Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Respondents:

Gary Jacobsohn
Malcolm Macdonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law and Professor of Law
The University of Texas at Austin

 

Yaniv Roznai
Senior Lecturer
Radzyner School of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya

1:00pm

Lunch

Jamail Pavilion

2:00pm

Concurrent Sessions I

Breakout Rooms

3:45pm

Break

4:00pm

Concurrent Sessions II

Breakout Rooms

5:45pm

Break

6:00pm

Dinner

January 18, 2020

Time Session Information
9:00am

Concurrent Sessions III

Breakout Rooms

10:45am

Break

11:00am

Plenary Lecture -- "Socialism and Constitutionalism"

Eidman Courtroom

William Forbath
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law
The University of Texas at Austin

11:50pm

Break

12:00pm

Plenary Book Panel -- Richard Albert, “Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions” (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Eidman Courtroom

Chair:

Oran Doyle
Professor in Law
Trinity College Dublin

 

Panelists:

Jamie Cameron
Professor of Law
Osgoode Hall Law School

 

Erin Crandall
Associate Professor of Politics
Acadia University

 

Emmett Macfarlane
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Waterloo

 

Warren Newman
Senior General Counsel
Department of Justice of Canada

 

Maxime St-Hilaire
Associate Professor of Law
University of Sherbrooke

 

Respondent:

Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law and Professor of Government
The University of Texas at Austin

1:45pm

Lunch

2:45pm

Plenary Lecture -- "Imperfect Constitutional Duties: Durable Entitlements, Inconstant Entailments"

Eidman Courtroom

Lawrence Sager
Alice Jane Drysdale Sheffield Regents Chair
The University of Texas at Austin

3:35pm

Break

3:50pm

Plenary Lecture -- "Building Systems of Constitutional Justice: Power and Ideology"

Eidman Courtroom

Daniel Brinks
Professor of Government and Professor of Law
The University of Texas at Austin

Introduced by Paz Avila, Ph.D. Student, Department of Government

4:40pm

Break

4:55pm

Concurrent Sessions IV

Breakout Rooms

6:40pm

Break

7:00pm

Closing Dinner