Constitutional Law Conference 2024

Date

Friday 13 December 2024

Time

10:30 - 18:30 hour

Address

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 Gebouw in Leiden on December 13th. 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

•  Prof. 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)
• Prof. Aileen Kavanagh (Professor of Constitutional Governance, Trinity College Dublin)
• Ola Al Khatib, LLM (PhD Candidate at Utrecht University)
• Prof. Roel de Lange (Professor emeritus of Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Prof. Ingrid Leijten (Professor of Dutch and European Constitutional Law, Tilburg University)
• Prof. 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)
• Prof. Jerfi Uzman (Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Mila Versteeg (Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law)
• Prof. Wim Voermans (Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)

Programme
Friday 13 December 2024

10:30	Registration with coffee & tea
11:00	Opening Welcome (Wim Voermans)
11:10	Keynote Lecture 1 The Time of Constitutional Law (Roel de Lange)
11:30	Keynote Lecture 2 The Constitution within the constitution (Aileen Kavanagh)
11:50	Keynote Lecture 3 Constitutional aspects of the regulation of AI (Anne Meuwese)
12:10	Keynote Lecture 4 Why Constitutions Fail (Mila Versteeg)
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 Legal Protection Against the Algorithmic Leviathan in The Netherlands, The United Kingdom, and the European Union (Ola Al Khatib, Giulia Gentile, Siân McGibbon)   Unwritten Constitutionalism in Politics and the Judiciary: What Concept for What Context? (Jerfi Uzman, Gert Jan Geertjes)
15:45	Coffee Break
16:00	Workshop Session 2 The Spitzenkandidaten procedure in the EU (Thomas Beukers, Vestert Borger)   New rights (Luísa Pinto e Netto, Ingrid Leijten)
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.

Leiden Law Academy website

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