Programme

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