IACL Round Table: 13 - 14 November 2015

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IACL Round Table: 13 - 14 November 2015
Athens, Greece

“The sovereign debt revisited by Constitutional and International Law”

The next IACL Roundtable will be in Athens on 13-14 November 2015, under the auspices of the Speaker of the Greek Parliament, Ms Zoe Konstantopoulou.

Institutional Affiliation: The host will be the Greek Parliament, whereas the scientific coordination will be ensured by the Greek Association of Constitutionalists and the European Public Law Organization.

Conveners: The Conveners of the Roundtable will be Professor George Katrougalos, Democritus University, with Professor Kostas Mavrias, University of Athens and President of the Scientific Council of the Parliament and Spyros Flogaitis, University of Athens and President of the European Public Law Organization.

Venue: The historical Senate Hall of the Parliament for the Roundtable (the IACL Executive Committee meeting will be in one of the smaller rooms of the Parliament).

Theme: “The sovereign debt revisited by the Constitutional and International Law”. The focus will be on the interplay between Constitutional and International Law, focusing on issues involving Human Rights protection and threats to democratic sovereignty. Issues to be addressed, are, indicatively:

  • the challenges, in several countries, of meeting commitments to social and other rights while responding to their obligations toward creditors;
  • the challenges of sustaining economic growth while securing minimally adequate social support;
  • new, still contested concepts, such as the “odious debt”.

These analyses should focus on approaches to responding to economic crisis and duress, involving action at both national and transnational levels.

The Roundtable will have the following sessions:

  • State sovereignty and conditionality of international economic transactions: Loans, Human Aid, Foreign Investments.
  • International loan treaties and human rights protection.
  • The doctrine of “odious debt” under the Constitutional and International Law.
  • A round table recapitulating and discussing the findings of the previous sessions.