ICON·S 2017 Annual Conference
Copenhagen, July 5-7, 2017
COURTS, POWER, PUBLIC LAW 
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Wednesday July 5th
h. 12.00 – 1.00 p.m. (registration)
h. 1.00 – 4.00 p.m. (opening)
Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel
Opening Remarks
Professor Gráinne de Búrca, NYU
Co-President, ICON-S
Professor Mikael Rask Madsen
Director of iCourts, University of Copenhagen
Keynote Address
Professor Bryan Stevenson
Equal Justice Initiative/NYU
Plenary Panel I: Global Economic Injustice
Professor Bhupinder Chimni (Download Paper)
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Professor Katharina Pistor (Download Paper)
Columbia Law School
Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler
NYU
Moderator: Professor Erika De Wet, University of Pretoria
h. 5.00 – 6.30
Faculty of Law – University of Copenhagen
Parallel Panels Session I
h. 6.30
Cocktail reception
Thursday July 6th
Faculty of Law – University of Copenhagen
h. 9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Parallel Panels Session II
h. 11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Parallel Panels Session III
h. 2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Plenary Panel II: High Courts and Political Power: A Conversation with Three Prominent Jurists
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
Supreme Court of Canada
Justice Marta Cartabia
Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Judge András Sajó
Central European University
Moderator: Professor Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto
h. 4.00 – 5.30 p.m.
Parallel Panels Session IV
Friday, July 7th
Faculty of Law – University of Copenhagen
h. 9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
Parallel Panels Session V
h. 10.45 a.m. – 12.15 p.m.
Parallel Panels Session VI
h. 12.30 – 2.00 p.m.
Plenary Panel III: International Courts in the 21st Century
President Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi (Download Abstract)
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Shaheed Fatima (Download Paper)
Senior Counsel, UK
Professor Mikael Rask Madsen
University of Copenhagen
Moderator: Professor Phoebe Okowa, Queen Mary