Occupy the Law

= Gunther Teubner and Anna Beckers organised an international conference on Transnational Societal Constitutionalism in 17 - 19 May 2012.

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The conference was hosted by HiiL, the International University College of Turin (IUC) and the Collegio Carlo Alberto.

Program

• Introduction: New constitutional conflicts. Gunther Teubner, Turin & Anna Beckers, Maastricht

I. Beyond nation state constitutions: The move to the ‘societal’ and to the ‘transnational’

• A sociology of constituent power: The political code of transnational societal constitutions. Christopher Thornhill, Glasgow

• The elusive social dimension of ‘societal constitutionalism’. Emilios Christodoulidis, Glasgow

II. New constitutional subjects: Transnational regimes, the cosmopolitan state, global assemblages?

• We and cyberlaw: Constitutionalism and the inclusion/exclusion difference. Hans Lindahl, Tilburg

• Enabling constitutions: The new constitutional framework in the age of access. Riccardo Prandini, Bologna

• Emergent globally bordered spaces: Anti-terrorism, global finance, and so much more

Saskia Sassen, New York

III. Constitutional arenas

• Occupy the system! Societal constitutionalism and the global economy. Moritz Renner, Berlin

• Private governance of knowledge: Societally crafted IP regimes. Dan Wielsch, Cologne

• Constitution making and constitutive power of the commons. Ugo Mattei, Turin

• Constitutionalisation of non-governmental certification programmes. Jaye Ellis, Montreal

IV. Collisions of transnational constitutions

• Procedural principles for managing global legal pluralism. Paul Schiff Berman, Washington D.C.

• Conflicts-law constitutionalism, societal constitutionalism and the power of technicity. Christian Joerges, Bremen

• The constitutionalism of trans-normative Law – Towards a general theory. Poul Kjaer, Copenhagen

V. Human rights and private power

• Fundamental rights, private law and societal constitution: On the logic of the so-called horizontal effect. Florian Rödl, Frankfurt

• Hierarchical power arrangements and horizontal effects in human rights regimes. Larry Catá Backer, Carlisle, Pennsylvania

More Information

• Conference review via our entry on: Transnational Societal Constitutionalism

• The conference contributions will appear in Indiana Journal of Global Law and under the title „Transnational Societal Constitutionalism“ in Indiana University Press.