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This document contains the events schedule of the Constitutional Law Discussion Group (CLDG) at Edinburgh Law School, as well as information on CLDG activities and contact details. More information is available at our website www.cldg.law.ed.ac.uk and at Twitter (@CLDGEdinburgh)
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EVENTS S P R I N G 2 0 1 5
www.cldg.law.ed.ac.uk
Convenor | Tom Gerald Daly
In association with the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
About Us Events | Spring 2015 Past Events Speakers Our Sponsors Convenor Contact Details
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The Constitutional Law Discussion Group (CLDG) was established by Ph.D researchers at Edinburgh Law School in 2012 to provide a structured forum for debate on constitutional issues in the Law School between postgraduate researchers and staff members. The Group focuses on both practical and theoretical aspects of constitutional law, and designs each semester schedule with the aim of exploring constitutional matters and ideas across the world, as well as addressing UK-specific topics. Our primary activity is a fortnightly one-hour discussion. Meetings are quite informal: a member of the group or a guest makes a presentation, which provides the basis for an open discussion. Other formats have included structured dialogues, a symposium, round-table discussions, Q&As, and an online discussion forum (for the Scottish independence referendum).
Meetings are held in the Law School’s historic grounds at Old College and are
attended by a mix of postgraduate researchers and members of staff, from
within and outside the Law School.
The Group operates with support from the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional
Law
About Us
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Events
3 February
NMacC 3pm
Professor Jeremy WALDRON
New York University Law School
Co-hosted with Legal Theory Group
‘Q&A with Professor Jeremy Waldron’
17 February
NMacC 3pm
Ilaria DI GIOIA
PhD Candidate, Birmingham City University
‘When Liberty Subverts Federalism: Is Nullification of Federal Law Legitimate?’
24 March
NMacC 3pm
Magna Carta 800th Anniversary
Dr Brian Christopher JONES
Postdoctoral researcher, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
‘Preliminary Warnings on 'Constitutional' Idolatry’
21 April
NMacC 3pm
Professor Alon HAREL
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-hosted with Legal Theory Group
‘A Note on the Normative Status of Constitutions and International Law: The Case for Discordant Parity’
1 May
NMacC 3pm
Professor Jessica SMITH
School of Government, The University of North Carolina
‘Constitutional Protections in US Criminal Trials’
12 May
NMacC 3pm
MacCormick Seminar
Professor Thomas CROCKER
University of South Carolina School of Law
‘Identity, Freedom, and Constitutional Constraint’
26 May
NMacC 3pm
Professor Stefano CIVITARESE
Professor of public law, University of Chieti-Pescara, fellow at York Law School
‘Breaking the Isolation: Italian Perspectives on the Dialogue between the ECJ and Constitutional Courts’
Further events may be added to the schedule in due course.
Full details will be available at www.cldg.law.ed.ac.uk/forthcoming-events/
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Past Events
AUTUMN 2014
Dr Lindsay Stirton |15 December 2014
‘The Curious Origins of Judicial Review’
Dr Catherine Dupré 9 December 2014
‘Human Dignity and Judicial Reasoning in
European Constitutionalism’
Prof. James E Pfander | 25 November 2014
‘Non-Contentious Jurisdiction and
Inquisitorial Judging in the Courts of the
United States’
Asanga Welikala | 11 November 2014
‘Democracy v. Liberalism? ‘Comprehensive
Pluralism’ as an Alternative Normative
Foundation for the Plurinational State in the
Global South’
Dr Jeff King | 28 October 2014
‘The Constitutional Concept of a Social
State’
Dr Pau Bossacoma i Busquets 14 October 2014
‘Constitutional Roads to Independence: The
Problematic Catalan Case in the Light of the
Scottish Experience’
Prof. Ted White | 1 October 2014
‘The Constitution and the New Deal’
Prof. Alessandro Torre 23 September 2014
‘Constitutional Reform and Politics – the
Italian Case’
20 March 2014
Symposium: ‘The UK Constitution
– In Search of Constitutionalism’
SPRING 2014
Dr Paul Blokker | 3 June 2014 ‘New Democracies in Crisis: Towards Illiberal and
Away from Civic Constitutionalism?’
Dr Erin F. Delaney | 20 May 2014 ‘Judiciary Rising? The UK Supreme Court and
Theories of Judicial Empowerment’
Prof. Spyridon Flogaitis | 6 May 2014 ‘The Rebirth of Public Powers in Europe, from the
Roman Empire to the Creation of States’
Tom Gerald Daly | 22 April 2014 ‘Democratisation Jurisprudence – Sketching the
Contours of a Fledgling Concept’
Prof. Roberto Gargarella | 1 April 2014 ‘Dialogic Constitutionalism and the System of
Checks and Balances: Emerging Problems’
Prof. Fiona de Londras | 18 March 2014
‘Constitutionalist Ruptures in the Contemporary
Counter-Terrorist State’
Dr Rivka Weill | 4 March 2014
‘The New Commonwealth Model of
Constitutionalism Notwithstanding’
Dr Conrado Hubner Mendes | 18 February 2014
‘Constitutional Courts and Deliberative Democracy’
Zaid Al-Ali | 12 February 2014
‘Constitutional Reform in the Age of Arab
Revolutions: Overcoming the Legacy of
Totalitarianism’
Silvia Suteu and Yaniv Roznai | 5 February 2014
PhD Dialogue: ‘Exploring the Eternal Constitution:
Perspectives on Constitutional Entrenchment’
Dr Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne 14 January 2014 ‘In Search of the Ancient Constitution in South
and Southeast Asia: The Galactic Polity as
Inspiration for the Constitutional
Accommodation of National Pluralism in
Postwar Sri Lanka’
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Further information, including
abstracts, can be found on our
website, www.cldg.law.ed.ac.uk
SPRING 2013
Prof Thomas Crocker | 30 July 2013
‘Character, Identity, and Public Necessity in the American Constitution’
Shamiran Mako | 27 May 2013
‘The Making and Unmaking of Constitutionalism in Iraq: Historical Developments and Post-2003 Implications’
Carlo Colombo | 21 May 2013
‘Regions before the European Courts: Which Entities and Which Rationale?’
Prof Zoran Oklopcic | 7 May 2013
‘Matryoshkas in the Periphery, or, Should Constitutional Pluralism be Provincialized?’
Kajit (John Paul) Bagu | 23 April 2013
‘Plurinational Visions in Constitutional Discourse’
Dr Daithí Mac Sithigh | 9 April 2013
‘Official Language in the British Constitution’
Asanga Welikala | 19 March 2013
‘Fundamental Principles in Constitution-making in Democratic Transitions: The African, South Asian and Middle Eastern Experiences’
James Lowe | 12 March 2013
‘The Leveson Report: Pressing Down on a Free Press?’
Pablo Marshall | 19 February 2013
‘Pyrrhic Victories: The Use of the Proportionality Test in Prisoners’ Disenfranchisement Cases’
Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh | 5 February 2013
‘What is a Bill of Rights For?’
Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam | 22 January
2013 ‘Another Independence Referendum in 2014? Recent Developments in Catalonia and the Current Debate on its Constitutional Future’
AUTUMN 2012
Diogo de Sousa e Alvim | 4 December 2012
‘One Country, Two Systems: Constitutional Legitimacy in Hong Kong and Macau’
Tom Gerald Daly | 27 November 2012
‘A Constitutional Coup? Hungary’s New Basic Law’
Alex Latham | 20 November 2012
‘After Brighton: What is the European Court of Human Rights For?’
Silvia Suteu | 6 November 2012
‘Iceland’s Constitutional Referendum – Taking a Closer Look at Constitutional Reform in Progress’
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Speakers
Speakers at the CLDG to date have come from universities worldwide, including:
New York University (NYU) ● Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Argentina
Northwestern University, Illinois ● University of Trento, Italy
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) Faculty of Law, Barcelona
Interdisciplinary Centre (IDC), Herzliya, Israel ● University of Trento, Italy
University of Athens, Greece ● University of São Paulo (USP)
Griffith Law School, Queensland, Australia ● Carleton University, Canada
University College London (UCL) ● University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)
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Our Sponsors
The CLDG is very grateful to receive sponsorship from a number of sources,
which has allowed us to expand our schedule year on year.
CLDG Events this year are funded by:
The Postgraduate Research Student Board (PGRSB)
The Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
The Global Justice Academy
Past CLDG events have also been funded by the Scottish Constitutional Futures
Forum
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Convenor Tom Gerald Daly
Tom is a founder of the CLDG (with Silvia Suteu). He is also Associate Director
for Research Engagement at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law and
Steering Committee member of the university’s Global Justice Academy.
He has previously worked at the Supreme Court of Ireland as Executive Legal
Officer to the Chief Justice (2006-11), as Editor-in-Chief of the Judicial Studies
Institute Journal (2005-8), and as a consultant on Council of Europe, European
Union, Soros Foundation and Judicial Studies Institute projects. He has been
Consultant Editor of the Venice Commission Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law
since 2009.
Currently a third-year Ph.D Candidate at Edinburgh Law School, he is
researching the evolving and interactive roles of constitutional courts and
regional human rights courts in democratisation processes during the post-war
era (thesis title: ‘Judging Democratisation: Courts as Democratisation
Technology in the Post-War World’). He has presented and published widely on
the connection between law and democracy, and the role of the law and courts
in supporting democratisation processes.
His full researcher profile is available at: www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/students.
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Tom Gerald Daly
The School of Law
University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL
www.cldg.law.ed.ac.uk
@CLDGEdinburgh
Address
Website
Contact
Contact can be made with the CLDG, preferably
through our e-mail address. Please feel free to e-
mail to:
Request inclusion in our mailing list;
Provide feedback on events and suggestions
for future events;
Share interesting information concerning a
topic discussed at a past meeting;
Share information on recent publications and
court decisions concerning constitutional law;
Apply to present at the CLDG: We issue a call
for presenters each semester through the UK
Constitutional Law Blog and our website.
Informal queries about presenting are also
welcome.
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