The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa
and
Boston College Law School
under the auspices of The Israeli Association of Public Law (IAPL)
International Symposium on Constitutionalism under Extreme Conditions
The University of Haifa on Monday - Tuesday, 18-19 July 2016
The Keynote speech at this event was delivered by former Chief Justice Aharon Barak
The Symposium was convened by Prof. Richard Albert (Boston College) and Dr. Yaniv Roznai (Minerva Center for RLuEC).
Booklet of abstracts and participants
Conference report in ICONnectblog, by Maja Sahadžić
Videos of the Symposium:
Day one – part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5h75QeGSCY
Day one part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHl5YIZFE18
Day 2: https://youtu.be/bKKglMwgQB8
Details of videos:
Note: The symposium was streamlined online; audio quality varies, not always good.
Day one – part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5h75QeGSCY
Min. 0:00 - Introductions
Panel 1: State of Exception and Normalcy
Min. 10:30 - Discussant: YAIR SAGY (University of Haifa) on:
KUMARAVADIVEL GURUPARAN (University College London), Constitutions as Instruments for Normalising Abnormalcy: The Sri Lankan and Indian Experience
Min. 52:40 - Discussant: ELI SALZBERGER (University of Haifa) on:
MING-SUNG KUO (University of Warwick), From Institutional Sovereignty to Constitutional Mindset: Rethinking the Domestication of the State of Exception in the Age of Normalization
Min. 1:40:00 –2:13:20: Break
Panel 2: Constitution-Making
Min. 2:13:20 - Discussant: GAD BARZILAI (University of Haifa) on:
MANAR MAHMOUD (Hebrew University),Challenges of Reconciliatory Constitution-Making inTunisia and Egypt: A Comparative Perspective
Min. 2:53:50 - Discussant: AMNON REICHMAN (University of Haifa) on:
ANDREAS BRAUNE (University Erfurt/Friedrich Schiller University Jena), Authoritative Constitution-Making in the Name of Democracy?
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHl5YIZFE18
Panel 3: The Next Frontier of Human Rights
Min. 0:10 - Discussant: ANNA MROZEK (Universitat Leipzig) on:
PEDRO A. VILLARREAL (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Public Health Emergencies and Constitutionalism: Between the International and the National
Min. 46:25 - Discussant: LUKAS HRABOVSKY (Palacky University Olomouc) on:
YORAM RABIN (Office of the The State Comptroller of Israel), LIAV ORGAD (IDC) & ROY PELED (The College of Management), The Law Governing the Right of Enemy Alien’s Access to Courts
Min. 1:31:45- 2:00:00 Break
Panel 4: Divided Societies
Min. 2:01:01 - Discussant: MAJA SAHADŽIĆ (University of Antwerp) on:
NIKOS SKOUTARIS (University of East Anglia) & ELIAS DINAS (University of Oxford), The Paradox of Territorial Autonomy: How Subnational Representation Leads to Secessionist Preferences
Min. 2:43:30- Discussant: ILAN SABAN (University of Haifa) on:
NASIA HADJIGEORGIOU (UCLan Cyprus) & NIKOLAS KYRIAKOU (University of Cyprus), Entrenching Hegemony in Cyprus: The Doctrine of Necessity and the Principle of Bi-communality
Min. 3:26:00 – Key note lecture
AHARON BARAK, President (ret.) of the Supreme Court of Israel and Professor of Law at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya
“Human Rights in Times of Terror – A Judicial Point of View”
Part 3: https://youtu.be/bKKglMwgQB8
Panel 5: Economic and Financial Crises
Min. 16:40 - Discussant: DANIEL BENOLIEL (University of Haifa) on:
ANTONIA BARAGGIA (University of Milan), The ‘Judicializtion’ of Emergency: The Case of the Eurozone Crisis
Min. 1:00:20 - Discussant: SUHA JUBRAN BALLAN (University of Haifa) on:
ELISA BERTOLINI (Bocconi University Milan), Financial crisis as a New Genus of Constitutional Emergency?
Min. 1:47:20 - Break
Panel 6: Actors in Constitutional Change
Min. 2:16:05
Min. 2:19:45 - Discussant: GUY LURIE (University of Haifa) on:
FATIH OZTURK (Istanbul University), Again: From 1867 to Today, Making a Constitution under an Elite Umbrella in Turkey (Min. 2:31:16)
Min. 3:04:28 - Discussant: Ricardo Sousa Da Cunha (Service of Legal and Constitutional Affairs of the Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) on:
TILMANN J. RODER (Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law in Heidelberg), Militaries as Actors in Constitutional Change Processes (Min. 3:19:10)
Min. 3:46: 55 - Break
Poster session:
Min. 4:22:30 - MAJA SAHADŽIĆ (University of Antwerp), The Constitution of Emergency - Reasons Behind Asymmetrical (Constitutional) Arrangements in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Min. 4:34:05 -RICARDO SOUSA DA CUNHA (Service of Legal and Constitutional Affairs of the Presidency of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste), The Constitutional “Big Bang” in Timor-Lest
Min. 4:44:45-LUKAS HRABOVSKY (Palacky University Olomouc), Emergencies and Constitutional Rights in a Time of Terrorist Threat in the Czech Republic: Do We Need a New Dimension of Emergency?
Min. 4:51:34 -JOSHUA SEGEV (Netanya Academic College), Detaining Unlawful Enemy Combatant in Israel. A Matter of Misinterpretation?
Min. 5:04:18 -PATRICK GRAHAM (University of New England), In Pursuit of Power: the Common Law Constitution
Min.5:16:30 - Break
Panel 7: Political Emergencies and Political Trauma
Min.5:50:20 -Discussant: JOSHUA SEGEV (Netanya Academic College) on:
DANTE GATMAYTAN (University of the Philippines),Reluctant Radical: Political Trauma and Judicial Review in Post-Marcos Philippines (Min.6:10:07 )
Min.6:39: 36 Discussant: PATRICK GRAHAM (University of New England) on:
IOANNIS A. TASSOPOULOS (University of Athens), Political Emergencies as Challenges to the Impartiality of Public Law: A Defense of the Constitutional Stability of Practical Reason Based on Greek Experience (Min. 6:53:25)