The Global Constitutionalism Scholars’ Workshop 2021 will take place virtually on the 15th and 16th of July 2021 (all times are UK times).

Day 1: 15 July 2021

9:45 am Introduction: Jonathan Havercroft

10:00 am-11:30 am First panel: Constitutional Development across Diverse Polities

• Sebastian Rudas “Indigenous Peoples and Multiculturalism: Two Perspectives”

• Vito Breda “The Aftermath of the Bougainville Independence Referendum: Another Case of a Constitutional Crisis, Hybrid Customary Democracy, and Institutional Development in Oceania”

• Andi Hoxhaj “Establishing the Rule of Law in Hybrid Regimes”

Commentator: Jonathan Havercroft

Break

3:00 pm-4:30 pm Second panel: Legality, The Judiciary, and Justice

• Nicola Tommasini, Pedro Arcain Riccetto, Karina Denari Mattos “Who Are We Empowering? Judicial Diversity in Constitutional Courts”

• Gaurav Mukherjee “The Legitimacy of Transformative Constitutionalism”

• Lucrecia García Iommi “Difference, Access to Contestation and The Legitimacy of the International Criminal Court. Moving Beyond the ICC ‘Africa Problem”

Commentator: Jacob Eisler

Day 2: 16 July 2021

9:45 am Introduction

10:00 am-11:30 am First panel: Identity and Globality

• Wenjuan Zhang, Madhavi Gopalakrishnan “Balancing Cultural Identity and Globalization: The Convergence and Divergence of Constitutional Transformation in India And China”

• Marcelo Carvalho Loureiro “Constitution, Indigeinty and Citizenship: Analysing the Roots for Legal Alterity in Lusophone Constitutional Systems”

• Yvette Lind “Contemporary challenges to democracy from a transnational taxpayer perspective”

Commentator: Jo Shaw

Break

2:00 pm-3:30 pm Second panel: Diversity and Transformation in Global Constitutionalism

• Atharva Sontakke “Constitutional (Identity) Crisis? Transformative Constitutionalism and the Search for Autochthony in India”

• Jessika Eichler “Diversity in Global Constitutionalism”

• Constanza Salgado, Domingo Lovera, Pablo Contreras “Between Emancipation and Political Self-Determination: The Use and Misuse of International Law in The Chilean’s Constituent Process”

Commentator: Jo Shaw

3:30 pm-3:45 pm Closing remarks

To join send an email to globcon-journal@soton.ac.uk.

Click here to see full details of the programme and abstracts of the Workshop papers.