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The 14th international Human Rights Researchers' Workshop: Democratic Backsliding and Human RightsJanuary 2-3 2019
The 14th international Human Rights Researchers' Workshop
Workshop Organizers: Prof. Gila stopler, Prof. Iddo Porat – The College of Law and Business & prof. Yuval Shany – The Israel Democracy Institute
9:15greetings
The College of Law and Business
The College of Law and Business
9:30 - 11:00Panel I: A global perspective on democratic backsliding I
International Courts and Democratic Backsliding
Tel Aviv University
Commentator
Constitutional Unamendability in the Age of Populism
The Israel Democracy Institute
Commentator
11:10-11:40Coffee
11:40-13:20Panel II: Democratic backsliding in the EU
European University Institute
Democratic Backsliding and Human Rights in Hungary
Van Leer Institute, Tel- Aviv Univeristy
Commentator
Prof. Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz
University of Gdańsk
How to capture a constitutional court in Europe? A manual for new authoritarians
Commentator
13:20-14:20Lunch
14:20-16:00Panel III: Democratic Backsliding and Popular Representation
Princeton University
Populism, Migration, and Premature Cosmopolitanism?
The College of Law and Business
Commentator
Hebrew University
A Defense of Non- representational Constitutionalism: Why Constitutions Need Not be Representational
College of Law and Business
Commentator
9:15Greetings
9:30-10:20Panel I: A global perspective on democratic backsliding II
Israel Democracy Institute, Hebrew University
Israel Democracy Institute, Hebrew University
Families of Backsliding Democracies: Unhappy in their own way?
Hebrew University
Commentator
10:20-10:50Coffee
10:50-12:30Panel II: Democratic backsliding in Israel
The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
The Strategic Common law Court of Aharon Barak and its Aftermath: On Judicially-led Constitutional Revolutions and Democratic Backsliding
Hebrew University
Commentator
Tel Aviv University
Israel’s Recent Sliding to Authoritarianism and its Causes
Commentator
12:30-13:30Lunch
13:30-15:10Panel III: Democratic backsliding in the Global South
University of Melbourne
Populism, Public Law, and Democratic Decay in Brazil: Understanding the Rise of Jair Bolsonaro
Hebrew University
Commentator
University of Oxford, Melbourne University
Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: The Incremental Fusion of Party and State in India
Tel Aviv University
Commentator
15:10-15:30Closing Remarks
Prof. Gila stopler& Prof. Iddo Porat
The College of Law and Business
- Sharing Economy Markets and Human Rights
- Human Rights and the Rights of Non-Humans
- Public Religions, Private Communities and Human Rights
- Human Rights and the Human Mind
- Intergeneratinal Justice
- Borders and Human Rights
- Rights and Reciprocity
- Private Power and Human Rights
- Rights, Balancing and Proportionality
- Labor Rights in the Era of Globalization
- Demography and the Human Rights
- Multiculturalism and the Antidiscrimination Principle
