The 16th international Human Rights Researchers' Workshop Mixed Constitutions and Human Rights

2-4 May 2021 By Zoom

Workshop Organizers: Prof. Gila Stopler,The College of Law and Business,

Prof. Cora Chan, University of hong kong, Prof. Francisca Pou, ITAM (México)

4:00 – 4:15 pmIntroductions

4:15 – 6:00 pmPanel 1 The making of mixed constitutions

Hanna Lerner

Tel Aviv University

Incrementalist approach to constitution making

Gila stopler

College of Law and Business

Commentator

Adam Shinar

Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya

Developing mixed constitutions

Iddo Porat

College of Law and Business

Commentator

Bui Ngoc Son

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Vietnam’s mixed constitution

Jaclyn Neo

National University of Singapore

Commentator

6:00 – 6:15 pmBreak

6:15 – 7:25 pmPanel 2 Mixed constitutions and human rights protection

Wen-Chen Chang and Yi-Li Lee

National Taiwan University & National Chiao Tung University

Mixed constitutions in East Asia: South Korea and Taiwan as examples

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago

Commentator

Kelley Loper

University of Hong Kong

Protecting human rights in a mixed constitutional context: the case of Hong Kong

Cora Chan

University of Hong Kong

Commentator

4:00– 4:15 pmIntroductions

4:15 – 5:25 pmPanel 3 Theories of mixed constitutions

Yaniv Roznai

Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya

What are we talking about when we talk about mixed constitutions?

Yvonne Tew

Georgetown University

Commentator

Francisca Pou

ITAM (México)

Hybridity and constitutional taxonomy in Latin America

David Landau

Florida State University

Commentator

5:25 – 5:40 pmBreak

5:40 – 7:25 pmPanel 4 Populism, democratic backsliding, constitutional innovation

Tom Ginsburg

University of Chicago

Constitutional Innovation

Wen-Chen Chang, National Taiwan University & National Chiao Tung University

Commentators

Ran Hirschl

University of Toronto

Constitutional design and the urban/rural divide

Yishai Blank

Tel Aviv University

Commentator

Maria Paula Saffon and Juan F Gonzalez Bertomeu

UNAM

The mix of populist constitutionalism: conceptual reflections from a Latin American perspective

Ran hirschl

University of Toronto

Commentator

4:00 – 5:10 pmPanel 5: Legal hybridities: dual states and legal pluralism (I)

Mark Tushnet

Harvard University

The mixed constitution of the United States

David Dyzenhaus

University of Toronto

Commentator

Cora Chan

University of Hong Kong

From legal pluralism to dual state: evolution of the Chinese-Hong Kong legal order(s)

Mark Tushnet

Harvard University

Commentator

5:10 – 5:25 pmBreak

5:25– 6:35 pmPanel 6: Legal hybridities: dual states and legal pluralism (II)

Hualing Fu

University of Hong Kong

Neither an Emerging Rechtsstaat nor the Remnants of the Old Order: The power to detain in the Chinese 1982 Constitution

Bui Ngoc Son

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Commentator

Eugenio Velasco-Ibarra

ITAM (México)

Dovetailing human rights and indigenous legal systems in Latin American constitutions through a reappraisal of the right to self-determination

Daniel Bonilla Maldonado

Univesidad de los Andes, Colombia

Commentator

6:35 – 6:45 pmClosing remarks