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24.–28.05.2021 Webinar "The legitimacy of European constitutional orders" Keynote speaker Prof. Bruce Ackerman, Yale Law School

Questioning the revolutionary, establishment and elite pathways

Monday 24 May 2021

16:00-16:30 Keynote speech: The European Union’s legitimation crisis
                     Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School)
 
16:30-18:30 Discussion with :
                     Alessandra Di Martino (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
                     Michaela Hailbronner (Justus-Liebig University of Giessen)
                     Martin Loughlin (London School of Economics and Political Science)
                     Roberto Toniatti (University of Trento)
 

Tuesday 25 May 2021

16:00-18:30 Questioning the revolutionary pathway

                     Chairman: Agustin José Menéndez (Universidad Complutense Madrid) 

                     A Republic of parties: the bearers of Italian constitution-making
                     Marco Goldoni (University of Glasgow)
 
                     From military coup to popular revolution: the Portuguese long constituent process
                     Teresa Violante (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and
                     Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law)
 
                     Discussant:
                     Massimo La Torre (University “Magna Graecia” of Catanzaro and University of Tallinn)
 

Wednesday 26 May 2021

16:00-18:00 Questioning the establishment pathway
 
                     Chairman: Marco Goldoni (University of Glasgow)
 
                     The British constitution: revolutionary, establishment or elite?
                     Martin Loughlin (London School of Economics and Political Science)
 
                     Varieties of Constitutionalism in the EU: The Case of Evolutionary Constitutionalism
                     Signe Rehling Larsen (European University Institute)
 
                     Discussant: 
                     Roberto Toniatti (University of Trento)
 

Thursday 27 May 2021

16:00-18:30 Questioning the elite pathway
 
                     Chairman: Agustin José Menéndez (Universidad Complutense Madrid) 
 
                     The Elites, the People, and their Court
                     Justin Collings (Brigham Young University)
 
                     Righteous Victims: On the Architects of the Illiberal Constitutional Wave
                     Renáta Uitz (Central European University, Budapest)
 
                     The reform of the elites? The Spanish path to constitutional democracy in light of its history
                     Marian Ahumada (Universidad Autonoma Madrid)
 
                     Discussant: 
                     Michaela Hailbronner (Justus-Liebig University of Giessen)
 

Friday 28 May 2021

16:00-18:30 Diversity of legitimacy pathways and European integration
 
                     Chairman: Marco Goldoni (University of Glasgow)
 
                     From legitimacy to ideology: towards ideology critique of European constitutionalism
                     Jan Komárek (University of Copenhagen)
 
                     The European constitutional experience as the Adaptation, Displacement and Revival of New Deal
                     Constitutionalism?
                     Marco Dani (University of Trento)
                     Agustin Menéndez (Universidad Complutense Madrid) 
 
                     Europe’s long interregnum: constitutional moments without a Constitutional Moment?
                     Michael Wilkinson (London School of Economics and Political Science)
 
                     Discussant: Joana Mendes (University of Luxembourg)
 
18:30-19:00 Concluding remarks:
                     Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School)
 

 

The detailed programme and registration form can be found here.