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Altneuland: The Constitution of Europe in an American Perspective

 

 
       

A Joint Conference Organized by
the Hauser Global Law School Program and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice,
New York University School of Law
Jointly With
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

April 28 – 30, 2004      


 
 

Program      

 
 

 
   
 

     Thursday April 29th 2004:
New York University School of Law



 

9.00am:

Participants arrival at NYU, morning tea and coffee served

   

9.30am - 12.00am:

SESSION ONE:

(1)

Paper Giver: Renaud Dehousse
'The Making of a Transnational Constitution: A Framework for Analysis'
(Co-author: Florence Deloche-Gaudez)
[ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Alberta Sbragia

   

(2)

Paper Giver: Armin von Bogdandy
'The European Constitution and European Identity: Potentials and Dangers of the Draft Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Michel Rosenfeld

   

(3)

 

Paper Giver: Antje Wiener
'Evolving Norms of Constitutionalism: A Reflexive Approach' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: José M. de Areilza

   

12.00pm - 1.30pm:

Lunch

   

1.30pm - 3.15pm:

SESSION TWO:

(1)

Paper Giver: Damian Chalmers
'The Satisfaction of Constitutional Rhetoric by the European Judiciary' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Karen J. Alter
'What Sort of Constitutional Legal Order Does the Draft Constitution Create?" [ Full Text ]

   

(2)

Paper giver: Franz Mayer
'Competences - Reloaded? The vertical division of powers in the EU after the new European constitution' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Gráinne de Búrca and Charles Fried

   
   

3.15pm - 3.45pm:

Coffee

   

3.45pm - 6.15pm:

SESSION THREE:

(1)

Paper Giver: Gianluigi Palombella
'Whose Europe? After the Constitution: a Goal-Based, Reflexive Citizenship' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Ayelet Shachar

   

(2)

Paper Giver: Luis María Díez-Picazo
'Treaty or Constitution? The Status of the Constitution for Europe' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Christopher L. Eisgruber (with Larry Sager)

   

(3)

 

Paper Giver: Otto Pfersmann
'The New Revision of the Old Constitution' [ Full Text ]
Commentator: Ingolf Pernice

   

6.15pm - 6.45pm:

Cocktail Reception

   

6.45pm - 7.45pm:

Conference Keynote Address - By Professor Dieter Grimm

   

7.45pm - 9.15pm:

Dinner

   



      Friday April 30th 2004:
      Princeton University



 

9.00am/ 9.30am:

Arrival to Princeton

   

9.30am - 12.00pm:

SESSION ONE:

(1)

Paper Giver: Miguel Poiares Maduro
'How Constitutional Can the European Union Be? Reconciling Intergovernamentalism with Constitutionalism in European Constitutionalism' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Kieran Bradley

   

(2)

Paper Giver: Neil Walker
'Europe's Constitutional Momentum and the Search for Polity Legitimacy' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Philip Pettit

   

(3)

 

Paper Giver: Andrew Moravcsik
'What Can We Learn from a Constitutional 'Decade of Deliberation' in Europe? A Social Scientific Approach' [ Full Text ]
Commentator: Daniel Halberstam

   

12.00pm - 1.30pm:

Lunch

   

1.30pm - 3.15pm:

SESSION TWO:

(1)

Paper Giver: Paul Craig
'European Governance: Executive and Administrative Powers Under the New Constitutional Settlement' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: George A. Bermann

   

(2)

Paper Giver: Wolfgang Wessels
'Saut constitutionnel' or intergovernmental trap? The provisions of the Constitutional Treaty for the Common Foreign, Security and Defence Policy [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Anne-Marie Slaughter

   
   

3.15pm - 3.45pm:

Coffee

   

3.45pm - 6.15pm:

SESSION THREE:

(1)

Paper Givers: Mattias Kumm / Victor Ferreres Comella
'The Future of Constitutional Conflict in the European Union: Constitutional Supremacy after the Constitutional Treaty'
[ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Martin Flaherty

   

(2)

Paper Giver: Andras Sajo
'Constitutional Enthusiasm Towards Network Constitutionalism? (Constitution - without the constitutional moment: A look from the new member states)' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Mark Tushnet

   

(3)

 

Paper Giver: Ran Hirschl
'Hegemonic Preservation in Action? Assessing the Political Origins of the EU Constitution' [ Abstract | Full Text ]
Commentator: Ulrich Haltern

   
 

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Gráinne de Búrca
The drafting of a Constitution for the European Union: Europe's Madisonian Moment or a Moment of Madness? [ Full Text ]
 
 
   

6.15pm - 8.15pm:

Dinner

   
   
   

 
   
‘Roving Commentators’: Joseph Weiler
  Grainne de Burca
 
   

 
   
   
   

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