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PUBLIC LAW AND SPATIAL GOVERNANCE: NEW FRONTIERS

Conference organized by the Department of Ethics, Law and Politics at the MPI-MMG and the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism

Library Hall, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

Friday, December 7, 2018

09:00 Opening remarks: Prof. Ran Hirschl, Prof. Ayelet Shachar

09:15-11:00 Panel I: Law, State, Territory

Speakers:Prof. Michael Dowdle (National University of Singapore)
 Prof. Günter Frankenberg (University of Frankfurt)
 Dr. Eugénie Mérieau (University of Göttingen)
Chair:Prof. Ayelet Shachar (MPI-MMG)


11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-13:00 Panel II: Shifting Borders of Public Law

Speakers:Prof. Eyal Benvenisti (University of Cambridge)
 Prof. Ayelet Shachar (MPI-MMG)
 Dr. Derek Denman (MPI-MMG)
Chair:Mareike Riedel (MPI-MMG)


13:00-14:00 Break

14:00-14:45 Lunch Talk: Prof. Paul Frymer (Princeton University)

14:45-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-16:45 Panel III: Cities and Spatial Governance

Speakers:Prof. Catherine Powell (Fordham Law School)
 Prof. Ran Hirschl (University of Göttingen/University of Toronto)
 Prof. Sarah Moser (McGill University)
Chair:Dr. Benjamin Boudou (MPI-MMG)

16:45-17:00 Concluding remarks