CONCURRENT SESSIONS II

---

Session 5 | Comparative Constitutional Studies

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions II | 2:30pm-3:45pm | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Gaurav Mukherjee (NYU School of Law)

1. Gert Jan Geertjes (Leiden University), What’s in a Name? Comparing Conventions, Unwritten Constitutional Law and Other Forms of Constitutionally Relevant Customs
2. Mark Graber (University of Maryland Carey Law School), Why No Proportionality in the US
3. Ming-Sung Kuo (University of Warwick), Four Matters of Interpretation: The Constitutional Phenomenon in Comparative Studies
4. Philipp Renninger (Harvard Law School), Comparative Constitutional Law and its Theory-Based Method
5. Wim Voermans (Leiden Law School), The Story of Constitutions: Discovering the We in Us

---

Session 6 | Constitutional History and Constitutional Law

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions II | 2:30pm-3:45pm | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Mohamed Arafa (Alexandria University & Cornell Law School)

1. Hazim H. Alnemari (University of California), Origins of Islamic Constitutionalism
2. Masahiko Kinoshita (Kobe University), Metropolitan Politics and Constitutional Empowerment: Lessons from East Asian Megacities
3. Jedidiah Kroncke (The University of Hong Kong), Carsun Chang’s Jefferson: Transnational Constitutional History as Strategic Bricolage
4. Mohammad Mobasher (American University), Islamic Republic versus Islamic Emirate: What Constitutional Order do Afghans Want?
5. Graziella Romeo (Bocconi University), A Material Understanding of Constitutional Changes: Opportunities and Challenges

---

Session 7 | Constitutional Law and Economic Justice

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions II | 2:30pm-3:45pm | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: Antonia Baraggia (Università degli Studi di Milano Statale)

1. M Jashim Ali Chowdhury (University of Hull), Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in South Asia: A Dialogic Approach
2. Aeyal Gross (Tel Aviv University), Economic Inequality and the Constitution
3. José Ignacio Hernández G. (Catholic University and the Central University, Venezuela / Pontifical University, Dominican Republic / Coruña University and Castilla – La Mancha University, Spain / Harvard Kennedy School), Latin American Constitutional Law and Green Growth: A Path Forward
4. Malkhaz Nakashidze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University), The European Constitutional Law and New Challenges of Legal Education in Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine
5. Raden Violla Reininda Hafidz (Konstitusi dan Demokrasi Inisiatif (KoDe Inisiatif); The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law), Enforcing Economic Constitutionalism à la the Constitutional Court of Indonesia

---

Session 8 | Contemporary Challenges and Predicaments in Mexico’s Constitutive Process: From Abusive Constitutionalism to Transformative (or not) Judicial Adjudication

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions II | 2:30pm-3:45pm | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Irene Parra (ITAM)

1. José Mario de la Garza (Escuela Libre de Derecho), The Behavior of the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice in the Context of Abusive Constitutionalism in Mexico
2. Sebastián Incháustegui (Universidad Panamericana), The Perils of Misusing Direct Democracy Mechanisms in Times of Political Polarization: The Case of Mexico
3. Jaime Olaiz-González (Universidad Panamericana), Turning the Tide: On Mexico’s Ongoing Debate on the Unconstitutionality of Constitutional Amendments
4. Francisca Pou Giménez (UNAM) [Discussant]
5. Oscar Leonardo Ríos García (Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán), Constitutional Justice and Democracy: The Role of The Mexican Supreme Court in Times Of Change

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS III

---

Session 9 | Constitutional Democracy under Stress

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions III | 4:15pm-5:45pm | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Guillermo Perez (Instituto de Estudios de la Sociedad)

1. Mathilde Ambrosi (Université de Bordeaux), The Presidential Oath in the United States of America – A Study in the Light of January 6th Riots
2. Tsung-Chun Chen (University of Illinois College of Law), A Critique of the Value of Civil Disobedience in Defending Constitutional Democracy: An Empirical Analysis of Democratic Taiwan (1996-2022)
3. Lea Diaz (CUNY Graduate Center), The Revitalisation of Democracy in the US
4. Elad Gil (Tachlith Inst./Hebrew University), Private Constitutionalism: The Rise of Online Private Governance as a Constraint on Public Governance
5. Roy Sturgeon (Tulane Law School), Comrade Xiaoping’s Constitutional Experiment Survives in Hong Kong: What If Carrie Lam Had Withdrawn the Extradition Bill on 15 June 2019?

---

Session 10 | Judicial Review and Constitutional Courts

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions III | 4:15pm-5:45pm | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: William Stutts (University of Texas at Austin)

1. Rodolfo Gutiérrez Silva (University of Hamburg, Germany), The Justiciability of the Right to Health in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
2. Remzije Istrefi (Constitutional Court of Kosovo), Constitutional Courts as Guardians of Conflict Settlements
3. Bell E. Josef (Tel Aviv University), A New Theoretical Framework for Judicial Review: State and Religion Cases in Israel
4. Aman Mehta (Jindal Global Law School), A “True” Constitutional Court: Restoring the Indian Supreme Court’s Original Character – Towards a Weak Centralized Form of Constitutional Review
5. Amfitriti Panagiotou (University of Cyprus), Constitutional Review in Cyprus: A Step Towards the “Restoration” of Justice?

---

Session 11 | Multilevel Protection of Human Rights in Europe

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions III | 4:15pm-5:45pm | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: Sofia Oliveira Pais (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

1. Catarina Santos Botelho (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Human Rights and the Council of Europe
2. Sofia Oliveira Pais (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), EU Law and Fundamental Rights Enforcement
3. Ana Teresa Ribeiro (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Fundamental Rights Protection in the Portuguese Constitution
4. Cezary Weglinski (University of Warsaw), The great, The Absent: The Constituent Power in the EU Legal Order from the Perspective of Institutional Theories of Law and Material Concepts of Constitution

---

Session 12 | Neuroscience, Law, and Ethics: A Challenge from Braintech

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions III | 4:15pm-5:45pm | Location: TNH 2.124

Chair: Keigo Komamura (Keio University)

1. Masatoshi Kokubo (Keio University), Cognitive Liberty and Some Other Rights: A Response to the Challenge
2. Haruki Kadotani (Keio University), Limits of Delegating Self-Determination to AI
3. Tamami Fukushi (Tokyo Online University), Braintech and Neuroethics: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives
4. Keigo Komamura (Keio University) [Discussant]

---

Session 13 | Rethinking Civil Liberties at Mid-Century: The Case of Free Speech

March 16, 2023 | Day 1 | Concurrent Sessions III | 4:15pm-5:45pm | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Hui-Wen Chen (University of Warwick)

1. Carissima Mathen (University of Ottawa), Canadian Frolic: Regulating Expression on Social Media
2. Claudia Haupt (Northeastern University), Democratic Self-Defense
3. Mark Rush (Washington & Lee University), When Rights Go Viral: Cyberpowered Speech in Historical Perspective

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS IV

---

Session 14 | Democracy and Constitutionalism: Problems and Perspectives

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions IV | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Gaurav Mukherjee (NYU School of Law)

1. Brian Highsmith (Princeton University), Odious Constitutions
2. Calvin H. Johnson (Texas Law School), Grading the Constitution on Slavery
3. Michael Pal (Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa), Democracy and the Notwithstanding Clause
4. Hillel Sommer (Reichman University), Redesigning the Constitutional Override: Turning a “Bête Noire” into a Useful Constitutional Tool

---

Session 15 | Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: Reflections on the Colombian Case

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions IV | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Alejandro Linares Cantillo (Corte Constitucional de Colombia)

1. Yenny Andrea Celemin Caicedo (Universidad de Los Andes), Constitutional Entrenchment Devices Under Threat? A Case Study about the Colombian Context
2. Elena Maria Escobar Arbelaez (Corte Constitucional de Colombia), Legislation Established as a Result of the Constitutional Court’s Judgments
3. Milton Cesar Jimenez Ramirez (Universidad de Caldas), Weak Procedural Constitutionalism: The Judicial Process as Legitimacy of Judicial Review
4. Alejandro Linares Cantillo (Corte Constitucional de Colombia), Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Colombia
5. Gonzalo Ramirez Cleves (Universidad Externado de Colombia), The Substitution of the Constitution Doctrine in Colombia: Dilemmas and Solutions

---

Session 16 | New Frontiers of Public Law

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions IV | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Sanford Levinson (University of Texas School of Law)

1. Alfredo Attie (São Paulo Supreme Court), Global Constitution Between Politeia and Paideia
2. Gil Bringer (The Hebrew University), The Future of Generality of Law: What Can We Learn from the Israeli Case?
3. Ahsan Chaudhary (International Institute on the Social Contract), Market: The Empirical Foundation of World Constitution
4. Antonios Kouroutakis (IE University), The Constitutionalism of the Level Playing Field
5. Michal Tamir (UC Berkeley /The Academic Center of Law and Science), Challenging Overinclusive Laws: General Exclusion as a Constitutional Remedy

---

Session 17 | The Rule of Law in Times of Crisis

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions IV | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: Remzije Istrefi (Constitutional Court of Kosovo)

1. Nora Ban-Forgacs (Institute for Legal Studies), Covid and Access to Information, the Case of Hungary
2. Yoav Dotan (Faculty of Law, Hebrew University), High Courts and Constitutional Review in Times of Crisis – The Case of Israel during the Corona Virus Pandemic
3. Jonathan Hafetz (Seton Hall Law School), The Use of Emergency Powers to Address Immigration in the United States: The Constitutional Implications of Crisis Governance
4. Anna Rytel-Warzocha (University of Gdansk) and Andrzej Jackiewicz (University of Bialystok), Constitutional Review in Times of Crisis (the Case of Poland) – Can Democracy Defend Itself?
5. Jara Samuel (Arsi University), Post-Covid-19 Military coup d’état’s and the AU Responses

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS V

---

Session 18 | Authoritarianism and Constitutionalism

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions V | 1:30pm-3:00pm | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Luz Balaj (University of Prishtina)

1. Mishu Barua (Biman Bangladesh Airlines), Autocracy in the Shadow of Democracy
2. Juliano Benvindo (University of Brasília) and Daniel Bogéa (University of São Paulo), Courts against Autocrats: A Contextual Approach for Democracies in Stress
3. Dolunay Bulut (The New School for Social Research), Constitution as an Authoritarian Object of Fetish
4. Leigha Crout (University of Wisconsin Law School & King’s College London), Present Trends of Authoritarian Legality – Operational Constitutionalism
5. Abdul Mahir Hazim (Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law), The Politics and Constitutionality of Law-Making in the Afghan Republic (2014-2021): An Authoritarian and Unrestrained Executive

---

Session 19 | Constitution-Making and Transition

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions V | 1:30pm-3:00pm | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: Mohamed Arafa (Alexandria University & Cornell Law School)

1. Karem Aboelazm (Umm Al Quwain University), The Development of the New Egyptian Constitution to Enhance the Rule of Law
2. Satang Nabaneh (University of Dayton Human Rights Center), The Gambia in Transition: Towards a New Constitutional Order
3. Ibrahim Nyei (Ducor Institute for Social and Economic Research), The Military and Constitution-Making in Africa: The (Un)Democratic Legacy of the Soldiers
4. Denizom Oliveira (University of São Paulo), Transitional Justice and the Transforming Character of Democratic Constitutions in Latin America
5. Bruce Wilder (Wilder Mahood McKinley & Oglesby), A New Constitution for the United States? With Lessons from Chile

---

Session 20 | Challenges of Human Rights in the 21st Century

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions V | 1:30pm-3:00pm | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Irene Spigno (Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos)

1. Irene Spigno (Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos), Inter-American Jurisprudence on Reparations in Cases of Gender Violence Against Women
2. Silvia Romboli (ESADE), The Protection of Homoosexual Couples Against Discrimination in the Evolution of the European Court’s Case Law on LGBTIQ+ Fundamental Rights
3. Carlos Zamora Valadez (Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos), Reparation Measures for Victims of Enforced Disappearance in Mexico

---

Session 21 | Litigation and Remedies

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions V | 1:30pm-3:00pm | Location: TNH 2.124

Chair: Ashish Goel (Advocate, Supreme Court of India)

1. Hafiz Ghulam Abbas (School of Law, Bahria University Islamabad Pakistan), Constitutional Tort Remedy: In Pakistan Perspective
2. Rowie Stolk (Leiden Law School), The Role of the Dutch Constitution in Interest Group Litigation
3. Swapnil Tripathi (University of Oxford), Judiciary’s Hotchpotch: Uncertainty Surrounding Public Interest Litigation in India and Its Repercussions

---

Session 22 | The Changing Landscape of Federalism

March 17, 2023 | Day 2 | Concurrent Sessions V | 1:30pm-3:00pm | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Carissima Mathen (University of Ottawa)

1. Gerald Dickinson (University of Pittsburgh School of Law), Judicial Federalization Doctrine
2. Hector Lopez Bofill (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Federalism as the Compact among the Weak
3. Orlando Scarcello (KU Leuven), Federalization through Rights? The Impact of Rights on the Federal Balance in the USA, Canada, and the EU
4. Enrique Uribe Arzate (University Autonomous of the State of Mexico), The Mexican Constitutional Court in the Frame of Federalism

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS VI

---

Session 23 | Constitutional Theory

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VI | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Mark Graber (University of Maryland Carey Law School)

1. Eran Globus (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School), Barak and Berman Intertwined? – Exploring Principled Positivist Constitutionalism
2. Alan Greene (Birmingham Law School), Agonistic Constitutionalism: A Democratic Critique of the Political Constitution
3. Tamar Hostovsky Brandes (Ono Academic College), Solidarity and Constitutionalism
4. Keigo Obayashi (Keio University), The Influence of Political Process Theory to Japan
5. Mangesh Patwardhan (National Insurance Academy, Pune, India), The Loopholes in Gödel’s Loophole

---

Session 24 | Democracy, Populism, and the Rule of Law

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VI | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: William Stutts (University of Texas at Austin)

1. Iddo Porat and Moshe Cohen-Eliya (College of Law and Business, Israel), Addressing Court Polarization – A Comparative Perspective
2. Zoran Oklopcic (Carleton University, Ottawa), “For the People”? Parliamentarism, Presidentialism and the Character of Popular Government in America and Europe
3. Yaniv Roznai (Reichman University), Post Populism Populism
4. Edward Oyelowo Oyewo (University of Lagos, Nigeria / Office of the Attorney General, Oyo State Government, Nigeria), Constitutionalism and Democratic Governance in Nigeria
5. Francisco J. Urbina (University of Notre Dame), The Peremptory Requirement of Separation of Powers

---

Session 25 | Electoral and Non-Electoral Forms of Political Participation

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VI | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Izolda Bokszczanin (University of Warsaw)

1. Izolda Bokszczanin (University of Warsaw), Citizens Participation in the Law-Making Process in Poland: A Remedy for the Crisis of Representative Democracy?
2. Malgorzata Lorencka (University of Silesia), The Negative Instrumentalisation of Electoral Law – The Italian Constitutional Court’s Judgment No.1/2014 and No.35/2017
3. Eduardo Oliveira e Sousa (Lusíada University in Porto), “If Politics Still Matter”: A Study on the Motives of Electoral Abstention in Current Times.
4. Cristina Aragão Seia (Lusíada University in Porto), Elections Integrity and Democratic Participation: A European Union Concern
5. Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth (Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest), New Perspectives of Comparative Constitutional Law: Electoral Case Law During the Covid-19 Pandemic

---

Session 26 | Human Rights: Local and Global Perspectives

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VI | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Marisa Almeida Araújo (Lusíada University)

1. Sarah Ganty (Yale University/Ghent University), Nationality-Based Bans from the Schengen Zone: Pacifist Russians between Putin and the EU
2. Aleschia Hyde (Northwestern Law), Chasing Black Citizenship in Colombia
3. Dimitry Kochenov (Central European University), EU’s Lawlessness Law: Passport Apartheid from Indifference to Torture and Killing
4. Melissa Kotulski (International Attestations), A Constitutional Right to a Human Rights Commission
5. Anubhav Tiwari (Monash University, Australia), Law and Dignity for Refugees in India

---

Session 27 | Illiberal Constitutionalism

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VI | 8:15am-9:45am | Location: TNH 2.124

Chair: Timea Drinoczi (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

1. Giusto Amedeo Boccheni (McGill University), Paradoxical Constitutionalism: Reassessing the Liberal Bias through the “Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments” Debate in Southeast Asia
2. Timea Drinoczi (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Illiberal Constitutionalism in CEE states
3. Justin Orlando Frosini (Bocconi University) and Sara Pennicino (University of Padua), The Implementation of a Populist Agenda in Europe through the Prism of Comparative Constitutional Law
4. Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Illiberalism in Brazil: From Constitutional Authoritarianism to Bolsonarism
5. John Stanton (University of London), From Autocracy to Democracy and Back Again: The Evolution of Government in Maltese Constitutional History

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS VII

---

Session 28 | Constitutional Permanence and Constitutional Reform

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VII | 1:00pm-2:30pm | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Sofia Oliveira Pais (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)

1. Ahmed Abdelgawad Mohamed (The Faculty of Law at the British University in Egypt), Constitutional Dismemberment: Applying the Concept in the Egyptian Constitutional Amendments
2. Eyad Alsamhan (Brigham Young University – Judicial Council of Jordan), Jordanian Review of Constitutional Reform 2022
3. Abdou Khadre Diop (Université Virtuelle du Sénégal), Eternity Clauses in Francophone African Countries: Much Ado about Nothing
4. Munaem Khan (Uttara University), Search for Eternal State Identity: Can Eternity Clauses Ensure Constitutional Endurance in Muslim Countries?
5. Ragib Mahtab (Central European University and Bangladesh Judicial Service), The Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendment and Limits of Constituent Power: The 16th Amendment Judgment in Bangladesh Context

---

Session 29 | Elections and the Law of Democracy

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VII | 1:00pm-2:30pm | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Guillermo Perez (Instituto de Estudios de la Sociedad)

1. Gonen Ilan (Bar-Ilan University), Joint Political Lists: A Fly in the Ointment
2. Eugene Mazo (Seton Hall University), The Forgotten History of Election Day
3. Shih-An Wang (The University of Chicago Law School), Executive Powers and Democratic Governance of Elections under Geopolitical Tensions: The Cases of Taiwan and South Korea

---

Session 30 | Perceptions and Misconceptions of Donald Trump

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VII | 1:00pm-2:30pm | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: Mohamed Arafa (Alexandria University & Cornell Law School)

1. Mohamed Arafa (Alexandria University & Cornell Law School), Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson: Two Sides of the Same Coin
2. Arturo Castellanos Canales (Cornell Law School), A Dantesque Analysis of Human Rights During Donald Trump’s Presidency
3. Michael Blackwell (Husch Blackwell LLP & Indiana University), Molecules of Freedom and the Known Unknown: US Energy Policy under President Trump
4. Ezra Young (Cornell Law School), US Democracy on the Brink

---

Session 31 | Transnational Constitutional Law: Opportunities and Challenges

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VII | 1:00pm-2:30pm | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Francisco Urbina (Notre Dame)

1. Muhammad Ekramul Haque (University of Dhaka), Constitutional Borrowing and Transplantations: Use of American Constitutional Law in the Making and Development of the Constitution of Bangladesh
2. Gaurav Mukherjee (NYU School of Law), The Law and Politics of the Right to Education
3. Marie Padilla (University of Bordeaux), Something New, Something Old: Reception and Resistance to New Forms of Constitutionalism in the French Legal Academia
4. Lécia Vicente (Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School / United Nations), Jurisdictional Competition and Knowledge Spillover: What is There in a Market?
5. Olof Wilske (Uppsala University), A Constitutional Right to Reasoned Administrative Decisions

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS VIII

---

Session 32 | The Architecture of Constitutional Amendments – I

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VIII | 2:45pm-4:15pm | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Francisca Pou Giménez (UNAM)

1. Bruno Cunha (Federal University of Pernambuco), The Codification of Constitutional Amendments in Brazil: Beyond the Appendative and Integrative Models
2. Masahiko Kinoshita (Kobe University), The Form of Constitutional Amendments in Japan
3. Jaime Olaiz-González (Universidad Panamericana), Caught Between: On the Distinctive Character of Mexico’s Model of Amendment Codification
4. Shamshad Pasarlay (University of Chicago), Crafting Amendments during Political Upheaval: Amendment Models and Constitutional Stability in Afghanistan

---

Session 33 | Constitutional Change, Politics, and Legitimacy

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VIII | 2:45pm-4:15pm | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Marisa Almeida Araújo (Lusíada University)

1. Paz Avila (University of Texas at Austin), Constitutional Legitimacy in a Land of Constitutional Change
2. Matheus de Souza Depieri (University of Brasilia), The Brazilian Congress and the 30 Years of the Constitution: Analysis of the Political Players in the Constitutional Amendment Process Between 2015 and 2018
3. Carlos de Tomaso Rosero (Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil), The Proposal of Constitutional Reform in Ecuador and Their Constitutional Control
4. Manuel Adrián Merino Menjívar (Gerardo Barrios University), Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in El Salvador: Another Case of Formalist Resistance?
5. Marcos Antonio Vela Avalos (Constitutional Chamber), The Uses of Legal Theory in the Analysis of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in El Salvador

---

Session 34 | Constitutional Justice in a Global Context

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions VIII | 2:45pm-4:15pm | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: Guillermo Perez (Instituto de Estudios de la Sociedad)

1. Ugochukwu Ezeh (University of Oxford), The Gun Is (Not) Mightier Than The Gavel: Constitutionalism and Anticorruption Legalism in Nigeria
2. Gonzalo Pérez (Universidad Monteavila), The Appealability of Arbitral Award in the Constitutional Trial
3. Molefhi Phorego (University of Lagos / Office of the Attorney General, Oyo State Government, Nigeria), The Justiciability of Cabinet Appointments in South Africa
4. Meital Pinto (Zefat Academic College, Israel), 10 Years Anniversary of Hosanna-Tabor and the Misrepresentation of the Ministerial Exception as a Group Right
5. Samir Zime Yerima (Sorbonne Law School), Constitutional Aspects of Supernatural Offenses in Africa: The Case of Witchcraft

---

CONCURRENT SESSIONS IX

---

Session 35 | The Architecture of Constitutional Amendments – II

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions IX | 4:30pm-6:00pm | Location: TNH 2.124

Chair: Shamshad Pasarlay (University of Chicago)

1. Catarina Santos Botelho (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), The Presentist Portuguese Constitution
2. Hui-Wen Chen (University of Warwick), When the Temporary Becomes Indefinite: Legitimacy, Path Dependency and Taiwan’s Hybrid Approach to Constitutional Amendment Codification
3. Caspar Pfrunder (University of St. Gallen), Codifying an Evolving Culture of Constitutional Pragmatism
4. Rosa Ristawati (Universitas Airlangga) & Radian Salman (Universitas Airlangga), The Integrative Model of Constitutional Amendments in Indonesia as Constitutional Communication
5. Malkhaz Nakashidze (Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University), Georgia’s Model of Constitutional Amendment Codification

---

Session 36 | Courts and Constitutional Adjudication in Comparative Perspective

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions IX | 4:30pm-6:00pm | Location: TNH 2.137

Chair: Cristina Fasone (LUISS Guido Carli University)

1. Eszter Bodnar (ELTE Eötvös Loránd University), In Search of Methodological Standards for the Use of Comparative Law in Constitutional Adjudication
2. Eleonora Bottini (University of Caen Normandy), Constitutional Landmark Judgments: A Tell-Tale Sign of Constitutional Transformation?
3. Ahmed Elbasyouny (Indiana University), Cool-off, Your Honor: Reforming Post-Retirement Political Recruitment of Judges
4. Lewis Graham (University of Oxford), Judicial Restraint in Senior Courts in the United Kingdom
5. John Otrompke (United States), A Tale of Two Courts

---

Session 37 | Judicial Appointments and the Future of Court Reform

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions IX | 4:30pm-6:00pm | Location: TNH 2.139

Chair: William Blake (University of Maryland)

1. Guilherme Balbi (University of São Paulo), Legal Mechanisms to Change the Composition of Latin American Supreme Courts
2. Daniele Casanova (University of Brescia), Changing the U.S. Supreme Court Composition? A Perspective from Europe
3. Constantinos Kombos (University of Cyprus), The Unique Judicial Power of the Supreme Court of Cyprus
4. Jolita Miliuviene (Mykolas Romeris University / Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania), Criteria for Appointment of Constitutional Justices as the Precondition to Ensure the Implementation of the Principle of the Rule of Law
5. Rawill de Jesus Guzman Rosario (Pontificia Universidad Católica) and Sebastian Morales Forte (Tulane University), Loyalty and Willpower: Strategic Designing of Judicial Appointments in Constitutional Courts. The Case of the Dominican Republic and Guatemala

---

Session 38 | Democratic Backsliding

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions IX | 4:30pm-6:00pm | Location: TNH 2.140

Chair: Timea Drinoczi (Federal University of Minas Gerais)

1. Nancy Eunice Alas Moreno (Sophia University, Tokyo), Is Presidential Re-election Really Allowed in El Salvador? Considerations in Light of the Constitution and the Supreme Court of Justice’s Rulings
2. Giulia Andrade (Pontifical University Catholic of Paraná), The Hidden Threat to the Brazilian Constitution: The Case of the Secret Budget
3. Anmol Jain (Yale Law School), Democratic Decay in India: Weaponising the Constitution to Curb Parliamentary Deliberation
4. Sandra Magalang (Yale Law School), A Roadmap to Democratic Backsliding: Lessons from the Global South
5. Rafael Jerez Moreno (Honduran Council of Private Enterprise), Presidential Reelection in the Face of Term Limits in Central America: Can the Trend be Reversed?

---

Session 39 | The Environment and Constitutionalism

March 18, 2023 | Day 3 | Concurrent Sessions IX | 4:30pm-6:00pm | Location: TNH 2.123

Chair: Marisa Almeida Araújo (Lusíada University)

1. Agne Juskeviciute-Viliene (Vilnius University), Constitutional Challenges to Climate Change
2. Jason Maloy (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Climatic Change and Constitutional Change
3. Mohammad Golam Sarwar (University of Dhaka), Environmental Constitutionalism in Bangladesh: To What Extent Constitutional Recognition of Right to Environment Facilitates Environmental Justice?