Category: <span>Panel Paper</span>
AFTER DEMOCRACY: NEW CHALLENGES IN GLOBAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
Recent events have shown mature democracies beset by threats to constitutionalism and human rights. This panel brings global and comparative perspectives to bear on this phenomenon. Along with internationally prominent events like the United Kingdom‘s decision to leave the European Union, this panel examines new challenges facing societies that tend to be less frequently discussed...
BOOK PANEL: PARLIAMENT’S SECRET WAR – VERONIKA FIKFAK, HAYLEY J. HOOPER
At a time of increased tensions in Korea and elsewhere around the globe, a book-panel discussion of Parliament’s Secret War offers an opportunity to provide insights into how far the UK Parliament can hold the British Government accountable for decisions to use military force. The invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the UK Coalition Government’s...
THE ROLE OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS IN REFORMING EU DEMOCRACY
This panel addresses the ever more emphatic challenge of enhancing EU democratic legitimacy and citizen involvement in EU decision making. It does so by analysing the institutional position of European citizens in EU democratic reform processes. The panel focuses on three key reform initiatives or avenues aimed at galvanising citizen participation “in the democratic life...
ON THE THEORY OF HUMAN AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
The panel explores the ideas of a right to justification and the culture of justification in the context of human and constitutional rights adjudication. Questions to be discussed include: Does the right to justification require the same outcomes everywhere? How does justification relate to justice, in particular in the context of the EU? How should...
CHALLENGES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS
The principle of the separation of powers, far from being simply a constitutional principle for the organisation of public powers, is actually one of the traces that enables us to historically reconstruct the changes in constitutionalism and the original idea of defending the individual from the will of state power. We are today in the midst of a deep transformation of the public sphere,...
INTERNATIONAL NORMS AND CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN UNRECEPTIVE ENVIRONMENTS: THE SOUTH EAST ASIAN CONUNDRUM I (THE INVESTEE STATE)
How do international norms bring about constitutional and administrative change in apparently unreceptive environments? In South East Asia there is sensitivity to international law intruding on domestic sovereignty; a patchy tradition of constitutional democracy; and the central vehicle for international engagement, ASEAN, largely eschews binding norms. This panel nevertheless hypothesises that international norms have brought...
THE AUTHORITARIAN PUSHBACK AND THE RESILIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS – PART 2
More than a decade after the emergence of public law approaches to international institutions, such as Global Administrative Law, Global Constitutionalism, or International Public Authority, the international order has changed dramatically. The Trump administration and Brexit epitomize a growing trend against global governance. What had once been taken for granted – the proliferation of institutional...
THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF CHINESE CONSTITUTIONALISM
This panel investigates the changing landscape of Chinese constitutionalism from three aspects: the rise of the Supreme People’s Court in protecting property rights, the establishment of the National Supervisory Commission and the unconstitutional constitutional changes regarding market economic institutions.