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Roundtable: Unconstitutional constitutional amendments
Jerusalem April 2010

A roundtable of the IACL, on the theme “Unconstitutional constitutional amendments” took place in Jerusalem on 25-26 April 2010.

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  • Opening Session: Part 1
    Chair: Professor Martin Scheinin, European University Institute
    Welcome: Professor Barak Medina, Dean, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University
    Ms Justice Dorit Beinisch, President, the Supreme Court of Israel
    Mr Didier Maus, Conseiller dEtat; President, the International Association of Constitutional Law
  • Professor Claude Klein, Hebrew University:
    "The modernity of a constitutional question"
  • Dr. Sharon Weintal, Hebrew University:
    "A typology of the non-amendable provisions in the constitutions"

  • Opening Session: Part 2
  • Professor Otto Pfersmann, University Paris 1:
    "A normativist approach to the hierarchisation of constitutional law"
  • Professor Ulrich Preuss, the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin:
    "Another approach"

  • Session 2: Part 1
    Chair: Professor Suzie Navot, Law School College of Management, Rishon Letzion
  • Professor Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel:
    "Unconstitutional amendments in Israel: theory and practice"
  • Professor Denis Baranger, University of Paris 2: 
    "A new old french problem"
  • Professor Iain Currie, University of Witwaterstrand, Johannesburg:
    "The South African constitutional experience"
  • Professor Lech Garlicki, Judge, the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg:
    "An international regulation?"

  • Session 2: Part 2
    Chair : Professor Suzie Navot, the Law School College of Management, Rishon Letzion
  • Professor Gary Jacobsohn, University of Texas:
    "India and its jurisprudence"
  • Professor Eivin Smith, Oslo University: 
    "On an old protected constitution"
  • Dr. Héctor Fix-Fierro, Director, the Institute for legal research (ILJ), the National University of Mexico
    "Challenging the sovereign: Judicial Review of constitutional amendments in Mexico"
  • Dr. Francisco Tortolero, scholar at the ILJ, the National University of Mexico
    "Challenging the sovereign: Judicial Review of constitutional amendments in Mexico"