The Panel intends to analyze the developments and limits of democratic guarantees in global administrative law, also from a comparative perspective. Speakers will deal with the following themes: present development of global administrative law; global standards and soft law; global administrative law and economic liberties; global administrative law and fundamental rights.
Tag: <span>TUESDAY JUNE 26 2018 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM</span>
BOOK DISCUSSION: PROPORTIONALITY: NEW FRONTIERS, NEW CHALLENGES (CAMBRIDGE U PRESS, 2017)
This panel will bring together the editors and contributors to Proportionality: New Frontiers, New Challenges (2017). The panelists will discuss future directions for proportionality doctrine and scholarship, such as whether carefully designed and limited doctrines of proportionality can improve judicial decisionmaking, how proportionality doctrine is applied in different jurisdictions, its role in constitutionalism outside of...
RESEARCH METHODS IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
This panel surveys a variety of research methods in constitutional law, both old and new, from multiple disciplines. The papers on this panel will appear in Research Methods in Constitutional Law: A Handbook (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2019).
BOOK DISCUSSION: ZORAN OKLOPCIC, BEYOND THE PEOPLE. SOCIAL IMAGINARY AND CONSTITUENT IMAGINATION (OUP, 2018)
This panel will bring together leading scholars to discuss Zoran Oklopcic‘ recent book: Beyond the People. Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination (OUP, 2018). Beyond the People develops a provocative, interdisciplinary, and meta-theoretical critique of the idea of popular sovereignty. It asks simple but far-reaching questions: Can ‘imagined’ communities, or ‘invented’ peoples, ever be theorized without,...
SOCIAL RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Socio-Economic rights are widely recognized and protected both at national and supranational level. However the effectiveness of such recognition is still debated. The panel aims to address the current challenges in socio-economic rights protection in different countries. Karen Kong‘s paper analyses the Hong Kong‘s jurisprudential development in adjudicating social rights, looking also at the dynamics...
GLOBAL STANDARDS AND THE EU: IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES AND BOTTOM-UP APPROACHES
Global standards affect regulatory autonomy in a number of different domains: product technical requirements, food safety, aviation safety, environmental protection, financial regulation. Even though the EU could in theory try to compete with this process, in practice it is often de facto complying with global standards. At the same time, the EU tends to –...
IDENTITY POLITICS AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN NORMATIVE PLURALITIES
In plural societies identity politics and cultural practices of ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities are under pressure. At the constitutional level, religious identity politics—with the headscarf as the most prominent example—as well religious dispute resolution practices in ethno-religious communities—are increasingly seen as disregarding or threatening the constitutional and human rights order. The latter is particularly...
IDENTITY, SECURITY AND DEMOCRACY ISSUES IN PUBLIC POLICIES FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
The last two decades of 20th Century and the first decade of 21st Century have been marked by the decrease of public sector intervention in economy and the crisis of Welfare State. These two phenomena are strictly interconnected: the spread of procompetitive principles corroded some pillars of Welfare State (like public services) and the power...
BREXIT AS A LESSON FOR STATES IN AN INTERDEPENDENT WORLD
Brexit is a unique lesson in the consequences for a state that democratically decides to reverse the avowedly irreversible processes of strengthening global interdependence. The panel explores the ways of capturing this situation, discussing the impact of EU external relations law on the position of a leaving state, the inevitable link between the external untangling...
THE MATERIAL CONSTITUTION OF THE EU
The constitutional order of the EU has been already approached by a number of different constitutional schools. This panel tries to test the epistemic value of a rather neglected notion in EU studies such as that of the material constitution by focusing on two inquiries: (1) whether the EU has a constitutional structure that qualifies...