The event will be held mainly online (via Zoom). Additionally, participants are welcome (self-funding) to attend the seminar on-site at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo. Please register through the link below.
Program
Thursday 16 November
- 14:00-14:15 Event presentation by Dr. Natalia Torres-Zuniga, NCHR, UiO and Dr. Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, DPhil in Law student, the University of Oxford
Panel 1: Foundations and a cross-cutting case study
- 14.15-14.30: João Paulo Santos Araujo, Centro Universitário de Brasília: “Global Constitutionalism from Below: A Critical Approach to Hegemony”
- 14.30-14.45: Bruno Santos Cunha, the Federal University of Pernambuco, “A global theory for judicial dialogue in comparative constitutional law”
- 14.45-15.00: Miguel de Lemos, University of Lisbon, “Global Constitutionalism and Supranational Adjudicative Bodies: the Timorese paradox”
Panel 2: Human Rights
- 15.20-15.35: Veronica Øverlid (Norway), Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Canada: “Non-institutional actors and the interplay of the international and regional legal system: the case of the Central American ‘migrant caravans”
- 15.35-15.50: Faith Pepela (Kenya), Koç University, Turkey: “State Hegemony in Human Rights: Jurisdiction Fetering in African Regional Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms”
- 15.50-16.05: Ariel Dulitzky (Argentina), The University of Texas at Austin School of Law: “Global Constitutionalization and Eurocentric Adjudication: The case of human rights in sports law"
Panel 3: Trade, Investment, and the Environment
- 16.45-17.00: Naphtali Ukamwa, Trinity College Dublin: “Addressing Hegemonic Transplant in Inter-State Trade Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (From the WTO to the AfCFTA Regime): A Discursive Approach”
- 17.00-17.15: Dimitris Kontogiannis, University of Geneva Faculty of Law: “The Constitutional-like Character of International Investment Law and Democratic Social Change: An Inquiry into the Democratic Potential of ISDS”
- 17.15-17.30: Ryan Jay Roset, NGO Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center, and Daysheelyn Anne P. Brillo, Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center: “Lessons from the Marcopper Mine Disaster: Enforcing Environment Corporate Accountability Beyond Borders”
Friday 17 November
Panel 4: Sub-regional perspectives
- 11.00-11.15: Hoitsimolimo Mutlokwa, KOÇ University, “An Urgency of Resurrecting the SADC Tribunal: Lessons for Zimbabwe on Civil and political rights & the rule of law”
- 11.15-11.30: Novitet Nezaj, University of Zurich: “Balancing EU Law Compliance and Preliminary Ruling within EULEX’s Rule of Law Export Capacity: Exploring the Dichotomy of Case C-439/13 P Elitaliana v EULEX Kosovo”
- 11.30-11.45: Rishabh Bajoria, University of Cambridge: “The Depoliticization of the Indus Rivers: International Law in Kashmir”
- 11.45-12.00: Natalia Yeti Puspita, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia: “Rethinking the Application of the Supranational Principle in Addressing Human Security Cases in ASEAN”
Panel 5: Re-modelling global constitutionalism in the InterAmerican System of Human Rights
- 13.20-13.35: Patricia María-Fernanda Caparó Beltrán, University of Erfurt, "Reshaping global constitutionalism: Decolonial perspectives for the Latin American constitutionalism"
- 13.35-13.50: Arnulfo Mateos, University of Genova: "Constructing a regional Balancing in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights"
- 13.50-14.05: José Joel Peña Llanes, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): "Mexico's Snub of the Inter-American Court: A Threat to Regional Human Rights Protection and Global Constitutionalism"
Panel 6: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, hegemony and human rights from below
- 14.20-14.35: Sergio Pena-Neira, Universidad Mayor of Chile: "Human Right of access to potable water, against the hegemony of the Washington Consensus"
- 14.35-14.50: Enrico Lentini Gibotti Lucas Catib De Laurentiis, Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas: "Militant Democracies within the Inter-American System of Human Rights: an active defense from anti-democratic acts"
- 14.50-15.05: Pablo Damian Colmenares, University of Buenos Aires: "The Pachamama Rights. Contributions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to global constitutionalism"