Constitutional Law Conference 2024
- Date
- Friday 13 December 2024
- Time
- Location
- Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
Leiden
About the conference
The Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Leiden University will organise the 2024 edition of the yearly ‘Constitutional Law Conference’ (Staatsrechtconferentie). It will take place at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building in Leiden on 13 December 2024. The central theme of this conference is ‘The Constitution outside the Constitution’.
During the conference, participating scholars will reflect on the ways in which constitutions are shaped by elements that are not found in the actual canonical text. One of the central topics covered is the role of constitutional conventions or constitutive statutes that are not as such part of the canonical text of the Constitution within the scope of the small-c-constitution. In addition, various developments and challenges will be discussed which (may) impact the application of constitutional norms or affect current discussions on constitutionalism (e.g. the emergence of the (digital) administrative state, populism, and climate change).
Conference speakers
- Professor Thomas Beukers (Professor of Institutional Law and Practice of the European Union, University of Amsterdam)
- Dr Vestert Borger, LLM (Assistant Professor of European Union Law, Leiden University)
- Dr Gert Jan Geertjes, LLM (Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)
- Dr Giulia Gentile, LLM (Lecturer in Law, Essex School of Law)
- Professor Aileen Kavanagh (Professor of Constitutional Governance, Trinity College Dublin)
- Ola Al Khatib, LLM (PhD Candidate at Utrecht University)
- Professor Roel de Lange (Professor emeritus of Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
- Professor Ingrid Leijten (Professor of Dutch and European Constitutional Law, Tilburg University)
- Professor Anne Meuwese (Professor of Public Law & Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Leiden University)
- Dr Luísa Pinto e Netto, LLM (Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)
- Siân McGibbon (Doctoral Student at University College London)
- Professor Jerfi Uzman (Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam)
- Professor Mila Versteeg (Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law)
- Professor Wim Voermans (Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)
Programme
Friday 13 December 2024
|
10.30 |
Registration with coffee & tea |
|
11.00 |
Opening |
|
11.10 |
Keynote Lecture 1 |
|
11.30 |
Keynote Lecture 2 |
|
11.50 |
Keynote Lecture 3 |
|
12.10 |
Keynote Lecture 4 |
|
12.30 |
Q&A |
|
12.40 |
Announcements on behalf of the Dutch Association of Constitutional Law (Staatsrechtkring) |
|
13.00 |
Lunch break |
|
14.45 |
Workshop Session 1
|
|
15.45 |
Coffee Break |
|
16.00 |
Workshop Session 2
|
|
17.00-18.30 |
Drinks |
Target audience
Legal scholars, Public servants and anyone else interested in the central theme of the conference
Remote attendance
Remote attendance is not available for this conference.
To sign up, and for more information about the event, check out the Leiden Law Academy website.