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**The booklet of the conference can be downloaded HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The abstracts of all the papers for concurring panels can be viewed in the following tabs.**

 

12:00 – 13:00  Registration

⇨ Grand Hall
13:00 – 13:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks

  ⇨ Grand Hall

Professor Michael Hor
Dean of Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Professor Gráinne de Búrca, New York University
Professor Ran  Hirschl, University of Toronto
Co-Presidents, ICON-S
13:15 – 13:30 Opening Address

  ⇨ Grand Hall

The Honourable Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma
Chief Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
13:30 – 14:40 Keynote Address

  ⇨ Grand Hall

“Balancing National Security and Public Order with Human Rights: A Judicial Perspective”

The Right Honourable the Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury
Former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Non-Permanent Justice of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal
14:40 – 15:00 Coffee Break

  ⇨ Foyer outside Grand Hall
15:00 – 16:30 Plenary Panel I: Diversity, Identity and Human Rights

⇨  Grand Hall

“Respect for Diversity”
Judge Navi Pillay
Commissioner for the International Commission against the Death Penalty
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

“Diversity, Identity and Human Rights: Experiences in Asia and Africa”
Professor Yash Ghai
Director of Katiba Institute, Kenya
Emeritus Professor of Law, The University of Hong Kong

“Multicultural Human Rights Conflicts: We Need to Talk about Process”
Professor Eva Brems
University of Ghent

Chair:
Professor Johannes Chan
The University of Hong Kong 
16:45 – 18:15 Panel Sessions I: Sessions 1 – 29

⇨ Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms
18:30

 

19:00

 Ceremony to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of HKU Law Faculty

  ⇨ Grand Hall

Conference Opening Reception
  ⇨ Foyer outside Grand Hall
09:00 – 10:30 Panel Sessions II: Sessions 30 – 60

⇨ Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

⇨ Foyer outside Grand Hall
11:00 – 12:30 Panel Sessions III: Sessions 61-92

⇨ Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

⇨ Foyer outside Grand Hall
13:30 – 14:30 ICON·S Workshop: How to Supervise a PhD Thesis

⇨  Grand Hall
Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler
New York University
14:30 – 16:00 Award Announcements: ICON·S Book Prize & ICON Best Paper Prize

⇨ Grand Hall

Plenary Panel II: Courts and Democratization
⇨ Grand Hall

“The Role of the Constitutional Court in Korea’s Democratization”
Justice Ilwon Kang
Constitutional Court of Korea

“Why Populists Hate Judicial Independence”
Professor Kim Lane Scheppele
Princeton University

“After Democratization: The Taiwan Constitutional Court at the Crossroads of Judicial Activism”
Professor Lin Tzu-Yi
Director & Distinguished Research Professor
Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taipei

Chair:
Professor Richard Albert
The University of Texas Law School
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break

⇨ Foyer outside Grand Hall
16:30 – 18:00 Panel Sessions IV: Sessions 93 – 118

⇨ Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms
09:00 – 10:30 Panel Sessions V: Sessions 119 – 147

⇨ Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:15 Panel Sessions VI: Sessions 148 – 174

⇨ Cheng Yu Tung Tower and CPD Classrooms
12:15 – 12:45 Snack Break

⇨ Foyer outside Grand Hall
12:45 – 14:15 Plenary Panel III: Technology and Public Law

⇨ Grand Hall

“Public Law and Technology”
Professor Christopher Yoo
University of Pennsylvania

“Legal Automation, Rule by Law and the Rule of Law”
Professor Frank Pasquale
University of Maryland

“Big Data-driven Government: Towards a New Public Analytics in Public Administration?”
Professor Karen Yeung
University of Birmingham

Chair:
Associate Professor Cora Chan
The University of Hong Kong
14:15 – 14:30 Closing Remarks

⇨ Grand Hall

Professor Rosalind Dixon, University of New South Wales
Professor Lorenzo Casini, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca
Incoming Co-Presidents, ICON-S