A conference – jointly
organised with the Institute of Transnational Law of the University of Texas
at Austin, with which the Institute of Global law has a long-term co-operation
agreement – is scheduled to take place on 7 November 2003 and will be
looking at:
“Patterns
of Federalism and Regionalism:
Lessons for the UK ”
Programme
9.00-9.15am
Opening
session:
Welcoming from the Head of Department of UCL, Professor Ian Dennis
9.15 - 10.05am
VARIATIONS
OF FEDERALISM
Panel Chairman:
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Maclennan
Justice
Allen M Linden (Federal Court of Canada) Paper: Canadian Federalism: Continuing Compromise
Prof.
Giovanni Grottanelli de’Santi (University of Siena) Paper: The Italian Variant of Federalism:
Fifty Years of Experience
Professor Dawn Oliver (University College London) Paper: Regionalism in a political constitution; the UK experience
Mr
Jean-Claude Piris (Council of the European Union) Paper: The European Union: A New Form
of Federalism
10.05 - 10.45am
Discussion
10.45 - 11.15am
Coffee Break
11.15am -
12.05pm
HUMAN
RIGHTS AND JUDICIAL REVIEW
Panel Chairman:
The Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Sedley
Justice
Richard Goldstone (Constitutional Court of South Africa) Paper: The Implications of Regionalism
on the Sovereignty of Nations with Special
Regard to the Protection of Human Rights & Humanitarian
Intervention
Prof.
Douglas Laycock, FAAAS (University of Texas) Paper: Protecting liberty in a Federal System: the US Experience
Dr
Jörg Fedtke (University College London) Paper: A Europe of the regions - death
knell or a new chance for human rights protection
by the German Länder?
Prof.
Takis Tridimas (University of Southampton) Paper: Judicial Federalism in the European Union: A Supreme
Court for Europe?
12.05 - 12.45pm
Discussion
12.45 - 1.45pm
Lunch
1.45 - 3.00pm
POLITICO-LEGAL
DYNAMICS OF FEDERALISM
Panel Chairman:
Judge Carl Baudenbacher
Professor
Sanford Levinson, FAAAS (University of Texas) Paper: Secession: The Achilles Heel of ‘Strong
Federalism?’
Justice
Dr Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem (German Constitutional Court) Paper: Separation of Responsibilities (competences)
of the Central & Regional level with regard
to Legislative, Administrative & Financial
Matters
Professor
Cesare Mirabelli (Universita Tor Vergala) Paper: Local Autonomies, Religion & Federalism in the
Italian Experience
Professor
Lynn Baker (University of Texas) Paper: Federalism, Redistribution & Secession: Lessons
from the U.S. Experience
Professor
Ernest Young (University of Texas) Paper: “What European Devolutionaries Should Know
About American Federalism”
3.00 - 3.30pm
Coffee Break
3.30 - 4.15pm
Final Discussion
4.15pm
Closing Proceedings
by The Dean of the Law School, The University of Texas at Austin, Professor
William Powers Jr.
7.00pm
Bus to leave
Kenilworth Hotel for Dinner
7.30 - 10.45pm
Pre-Dinner
Drinks and Dinner at Leighton House
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