SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER 2010
Hilton Hotel, México City

Registration of Participants

18:00
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the IACL

20:00
Welcome Reception for the IACL Members

MONDAY 6 DECEMBER 2010
Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace), Mexico City

8:15 - 9:30
Registration of Participants

10:00 - 11:00
Opening Session
Opening statements from host country representatives

Héctor Fix-Fierro
President of the Organising Committee

Didier Maus
President of the IACL

Claude Klein
IACL Programme Commission

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 17:30
Plenary Session I
Philosophical perspectives on principles in constitutional law

Principles increasingly have a prominent place in constitutional law and constitutional discourse. Principles can be defined at a very abstract level but also applied in a very specific context. Often principles are referred to as norms that are valid within a normative system as a whole, rather than characterized by a specific scope of application. Hence, they can be identified in all normative systems, including in law, morality, theology etc. How can principles be distinguished from other types of norms, or from empirical statements that are relevant for the application of norms? What is the relationship between principles, values, rules, policies and facts? What can lawyers learn from philosophers about the nature of principles and the methods of resolving conflicts or tensions between them?

Chair:
Carla Huerta
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

Panellists:
Michel Troper
Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, Paris X, France

Ulrich Preuss
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Bruce Ackerman
Yale Law School, US

Samantha Besson
University of Fribourg, Switzerland

TUESDAY 7 DECEMBER 2010
Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace), Mexico City

9:30 - 13:00
Workshops
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

1. Electoral systems and constitutional principles *

Chairs:
Manuel González Oropeza
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

Christina Murray
University of Cape Town, South Africa

Nadia Bernoussi
École Nationale d’Administration, Rabat, Morocco

2. Old authoritarian constitutions and new democratic systems *

Chairs:
Ana Laura Magaloni
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), Mexico

Slobodan Milacic
Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France

Gianni Buquicchio
President of the Venice Commission, Conseil de l’Europe

3. Media and constitutional principles

Chairs:
Cesare Pinelli
Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

Yasuo Hasebe
University of Tokyo, Japan

4. Divided societies and constitutional principles

Chairs:
Iain Currie
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Rohan Edrisinha
Centre for Policy Alternatives, Sri Lanka

5. Subnational constitutions

Chairs:
Mo Jihong
Law Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China

Robert Williams
Rutgers University School of Law, US

6. The rule of law in the age of terrorism

Chairs:
Martin Scheinin
European University Institute, Florence, Italy

Suzie Navot
Collège de Droit, Rishon Letsyon, Israel

13:00 - 14:30
Lunch

14:30 - 18:00
Plenary Session II
Constitutional law and the generation and use of principles

How do principles operate within constitutional law? What is the role of principles in diverse legal traditions such as common law, civil law, customary and other legal traditions? What is the notion and role of 'the people' in the creation, modification and overriding of constitutional principles?

Chair:
Cheryl Saunders
University of Melbourne, Australia

Panellists:
Michel Rosenfeld
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, US

Diego Valadés
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

Yu Xingzhong
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Armin von Bogdandy
Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, Germany

WEDNESDAY 8 DECEMBER 2010
Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace), Mexico City

9:30 - 13:00
Workshops
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

7. Multiculturalism and indigenous people’s rights *

Chairs:
Menaka Guruswamy
Attorney, New Delhi, India

Ghislain Otis
Université d’Ottawa, Canada

Francisco Ibarra Palafox
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

8. Is Federalism a Constitutional Principle? *

Chairs:
Vicki Jackson
Georgetown University School of Law, US

Olivier Beaud
Université de Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, France

José María Serna de la Garza
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

9. Proportionality as a principle

Chairs:
Rodrigo Uprimny
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

Bertrand Mathieu
Université de Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

10. Indivisibility of human rights

Chairs:
Julia Iliopoulos-Strangas
Université d’Athènes, Greece

Cho Byung-Yoon
Myongji University, Seoul, South Korea

11. Religion and the State

Chairs:
Susanna Mancini
Università di Bologna, Italy

Michel Rosenfeld
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, New York, US

12. Foreign law: jurisprudence cross fertilization

Chairs:
Tania Groppi
Università di Siena, Italy

Marie-Claire Ponthoreau
Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV, France

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 16:00
MEETINGS OF RESEARCH GROUPS AND REGIONAL GROUPS

For your information, certain thematic meetings for groups from different regions of the world have been planned prior to the program. Other registered participants are welcome to call similar meetings. Given that some of these meetings will be carried out informally, these activities will not be included in program.

If needed, the Organizing Committee of the Congress can offer a limited number of rooms at the Mining Palace for participants and those in charge of a particular interest group (including work groups, research groups, regional or national constitutionalist associations and so forth) to hold meetings on Wednesday afternoon. For more information, please contact us at mexico2010.iacl@gmail.com

Special Workshop
European Network of Constitutional Lawyers
Values in the jurisprudence of the constitutional courts of central and eastern Europe

In the new democracies in Central and Eastern Europe constitutional courts have essentially contributed to the transformation of these countries, in particular by developing an efficient system of fundamental rights and a value-oriented Rule of Law concept. This jurisprudence reflects the present day standards of European Constitutional Law. In the workshops the jurisprudence shall be analysed, evaluated and compared to the concepts of the European Court of Human rights and of constitutional courts in other countries.

Chairs:
Rainer Arnold
University of Regensburg, Germany

Evgenyj Tanchev
Cour Constitutionnelle de Bulgarie, Bulgary

Special Workshop
Specialized Constitutional Law Journals Network

Chair:
Edgar Corzo Sosa
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

Special Workshop

Chair:
Cho Byung-Yoon
Myongji University, Seoul, South Korea

16:00 - 18:45
Meeting of the Council of the IACL

THURSDAY 9 DECEMBER 2010
Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace), Mexico City

9:30 - 13:00
Plenary Session III
Principles: universal, particular?

To what extent do constitutional principles make a claim of universality, in time and space? Can constitutional principles with presumed universal validity be identified with universal human rights and peremptory norms of international law (jus cogens)? Can principles be absolute? Are principles converging or diverging? Do universal principles provide a solution to the challenges of particularism and legal pluralism in multicultural societies?

Présidence:
Vicki Jackson
Georgetown University School of Law, US

Orateurs:
Ayelet Shachar
University of Toronto, Canada

Sandra Liebenberg
Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Jiunn-rong Yeh
National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Mark Tushnet
Harvard University, US

César Landa
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru

13:00 - 14:00
Lunch

14:00 - 17:30
Workshops
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break

13. New trends in Latin American Constitutional Law *

Chairs:
Miguel Carbonell
Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM, Mexico

Giuseppe De Vergottini
Università di Bologna, Italy

Marcelo Figueiredo
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

14. The principle of separation of powers reviewed *

Chairs:
Charles Fombad
University of Pretoria, South Africa

Eivind Smith
Université d’Oslo, Norway

Antonio María Hernández
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

15. The impact of international law on constitutional principles

Chairs:
Raul Pangalangan
University of the Philippines, Philippines

Ibrahim Kaboğlu
Université de Marmara, Turkey

16. Constitutional Principles and democratic transition

Chairs:
Javier Couso
Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile

Lech Garlicki
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

17. How comparative is comparative constitutional law?

Chairs:
Ran Hirschl
University of Toronto, Canada

Constance Grewe
Université de Strasbourg, France

18. Constitutional implications of regional integration

Chairs:
Daniel Sabsay
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rainer Grote
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, Germany

Thomas Fleiner
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER 2010
Palacio de Minería (Mining Palace), Mexico City

9:30 - 13:00
Plenary Session IV
Constitutional Principles and the Judge

To compare deductive traditions of deriving supra- or meta-constitutional principles from the values behind or above the written Constitution with inductive traditions of identifying common principles in individual cases and gradually recognizing their constitutional nature. Do courts refer to principles? Is there commonality in the judicial use of principles, or can we develop a typology of clearly distinct ways of referring to principles? What are the constitutional principles most often referred to by judges? What is the degree of cross-fertilization between legal systems when referring to principles?

Chair:
Andras Sajó
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

Panellists:
José Ramón Cossío
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico

Jutta Limbach
Former President of the German Federal Constitutional Court

Babacar Kanté
Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Senegal

Guy Canivet
Member of the Constitutional Council of the French Republic

Susan Kiefel
Justice of the High Court of Australia

13:30 - 14:15
Closing Session

Chair:
Héctor Fix-Fierro
President of the Organising Committee

Speakers:
President of the IACL

Secretary-General of the IACL

Organiser of the next World Congress

*These workshops admit papers in Spanish too
Minor changes might be done to the programme, please keep consulting the website

IMPORTANT DATES

May 1, 2010: Deadline for expressions of interest in submitting a paper to a particular workshop
(first call for papers)
June 1, 2010: Projected Deadline to choose the papers to be discussed at the Congress
September 15, 2010: Deadline for expressions of interest in submitting a paper to a particular workshop (second call for papers)
October 15, 2010: Deadline for submission of papers (both calls for papers)
December 5-10, 2010: VIIIth World Congress of the IACL
December 7-9, 2010: Workshops