International Conference Torino, 17-19 May 2012, starting 09:30 hrs
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri, Turin, Italy
Over the past few years, a series of political scandals have raised the ‘new constitutional question’. Multinational corporations violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet threatened freedom of opinion, and recently, with particular impact, the global capital markets unleashed catastrophic risks — all of these pose constitutional problems in the strict sense. It is outside the limits of the nation-state in transnational politics and, at the same time, outside institutionalized politics, in the ‘private’ sectors of global society that these constitutional problems arise. In the conference, social scientists and lawyers will discuss the question whether Constitutionalism has the potential to counteract the expansionist tendencies of social systems outside the state, particularly the globalized economy, science and technology, and the information media, when they endanger individual or institutional autonomy.
For more information and registration, please visit the official conference website at http://www.hiil.org/tsc or send an e-mail to anna.beckers@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
Thursday, May 17th
09:30 Welcome & Registration
10:00 Introduction: New constitutional conflicts
Gunther Teubner, Turin & Anna Beckers, Maastricht
I. Beyond nation state constitutions: The move to the ‘societal’ and to the ‘transnational’
Chair: Hans Lindahl
10:30 A sociology of constituent power: The political code of transnational societal constitutions
Christopher Thornhill, Glasgow
11:20-11:50 Coffee break & posters
11:50 The elusive social dimension of ‘societal constitutionalism’
Emilios Christodoulidis, Glasgow
II. New constitutional subjects: Transnational regimes, the cosmopolitan state, global assemblages?
Chair: Michel Scheltema
12:40 Constitutionalism and global private ordering
Mattias Kumm, New York
13:30-15:00 Lunch break & posters
15:00 We and cyberlaw: Constitutionalism and the inclusion/exclusion difference
Hans Lindahl, Tilburg
15:50 Enabling constitutions: The new constitutional framework in the age of access
Riccardo Prandini, Bologna
16:40-17:10 Coffee break & posters
17:10 Emergent globally bordered spaces: Anti-terrorism, global finance, and so much more
Saskia Sassen, New York
18:00 End
Friday, May 18th
III. Constitutional arenas
Chair: Paul Schiff Berman
09:30 Occupy the system! Societal constitutionalism and the global economy
Moritz Renner, Berlin
10:20 Private governance of knowledge: Societally crafted IP regimes
Dan Wielsch, Cologne
11:10-11:40 Coffee break & posters
11:40 Constitution making and constitutive power of the commons
Ugo Mattei, Turin
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break & posters
14:00 Constitutionalisation of non-governmental certification programmes
Jaye Ellis, Montreal
IV. Collisions of transnational constitutions
Chair: Alfred Aman
14:50 Procedural principles for managing global legal pluralism
Paul Schiff Berman, Washington D.C.
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break & posters
16:10 Conflicts-law constitutionalism, societal constitutionalism and the power of technicity
Christian Joerges, Bremen
17:00 End
Saturday, May 19th
09:30 The constitutionalism of trans-normative Law – Towards a general theory
Poul Kjaer, Copenhagen
V. Human rights and private power
Chair: Christopher Thornhill
10:20 Fundamental rights, private law and societal constitution: On the logic of the so-called horizontal effect
Florian Rödl, Frankfurt
11:10-11:40 Coffee break & posters
11:40 Corporate constitutionalism from below: The role of NGOs and social movements
Gavin Anderson, Glasgow
12:30 Hierarchical power arrangements and horizontal effects in human rights regimes
Larry Catá Backer, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
13:20 End
