The paper investigates the way the market defines race and gender, in particular on gamete markets and the purchase of racially marked sperm and eggs. The issue has relevance for international debates because it involves multiple ART markets in different countries with different descriptions and different motivations when it comes to representing race. It has...
Tag: <span>TUESDAY JUNE 26 2018 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM</span>
CULTURAL HERITAGE UNDER THREAT AND PROBLEMS OF SECURITY IN WAR AND PEACE
This panel aims to address how institutions and private individuals may or may not, through and alongside public law and democracy, mediate, neutralize and potentially resolve the identity struggles and security threats which occur at cultural heritage sites. Identity struggles and accompanying security issues surrounding cultural heritage are present in history and in our contemporary...
‘Nationalism‘ versus Identity Pluralism? The Preservation, Management and Valorisation of Archaeological Heritage
This paper will analyse the key role played by the State in the preservation, management and valorisation of archaeological heritage in Italy. First, it will reconstruct the main points of the debate raging in Parliament and academia after the unification of Italy over how to control the loss of archaeological objects. It will show how...
To File the World: the Archive as Cultural Heritage and the Power of Remembering
This paper analyses the historic archive as a tool for the preservation of memory. Beyond the idea of the archive as a fixed and immovable space, the paper wishes to consider the archive in its dynamism, chronological evolution, and in its changing relations with both the State and the private individual. Starting from a historical...
A Case Study of the Carabinieri Force for the Protection of Cultural Heritage
In 1969 Italy became the first nation to found a special police force unit, the Carabinieri Force for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, dedicated to combatting the theft and illegal excavation of archaeological sites, the trafficking and counterfeiting of stolen goods, including cultural property, and to ensuring the confiscation of stolen or illegally exported cultural...
DELIBERATIVE CONSTITUTIONALISM
This panel features several authors from a new 26-chapter edited collection The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism (Ron Levy, Hoi Kong Graeme Orr and Jeff King, eds). Deliberative democratic theory emphasises the importance of informed and reflective discussion and persuasion in political decision-making. The theory has important implications for constitutionalism – and vice-versa – as...
CONSTITUTIONALISM IN CONTEXT II
The papers on this panel, drawn from the forthcoming volume Constitutionalism in Context (CUP 2018), offer contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives on issues and jurisdictions at the cutting edge of the study of constitutionalism. Each chapter introduces the reader to a jurisdiction in a context-rich way, then proceeds to explore an emerging issue at length in...
CONSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS: A DISCUSSION OF ‘THE REDRESS OF LAW’
This panel addresses the issue of constitutional reflexivity in the age of austerity and market thinking by discussing the forthcoming monograph by Emilios Christodoulidis, “The Redress of Law. Constitutionalism and Markets“ (Cambridge University Press, 2018, forthcoming). Each of the four panelists will take up a specific chapter of the book and will discuss it from...
REVISITING COURTS AS DEMOCRACY-BUILDERS (BOOK PANEL)
–CO-ORGANISERS: PROF. SUJIT CHOUDHRY & DR TOM GERALD DALY— 1. OBJECTIVES The panel will centre on discussion of themes in Tom Daly‘s recently published book ‘The Alchemists: Questioning Our Faith in Courts as Democracy-Builders‘, (Cambridge University Press)