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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Videos:
- 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"