OxonCourts 1st Judicial Studies Graduate Colloquium
The Programme
10.00–10.30 Registration and Coffee
10.30–10.40 Opening Remarks by Sir Tim Hitchens, President of Wolfson College
10.40–12.20 Panel 1 – Judicial Roles and Their Normative Implications
Andras Gal (CEU): Consensus or Constitution? A Conceptual Perspective on the Legitimacy of Constitutional Courts in Consociations
José M. Reis (Hamburg): Opening Up International Adjudication: Mapping Procedural Transparency in International Disputes
Carolina Alves das Chagas (Graz): Framing Legitimate Judicial Avoidance: On the Normativity of Deciding Not to Decide
Kristine Avram (Marburg): Different Stories of the Past in Post-Communist Romania: Legal and Societal Perspectives on Former Prison Commander Alexandru Vişinescu
12.20–13.20 Lunch in Hall
13.20–15.00 Panel 2 – Quantitative Approaches to Judicial Behaviour
Sara Razai (UCL): Understanding the Role and Political Significance of Judges in the Arab Middle East: An Empirical and Interdisciplinary Study
Tilko Swalve (Mannheim): Primus Inter Pares? Task and Social Leadership at the German Federal Court
Lewis Graham (Cambridge): Individual Judicial Behaviour on the United Kingdom Supreme Court
Philipp Schroeder (UCL): Rights Under Pressure: Political Constraints on Constitutional Review
15.00–15.30 Coffee
15.30–17.10 Panel 3 – Legal Mobilization and Rights
Mohamed R. Abdelsalam (SciencesPo): The Role of Judges in Defining Islamic Constitutional Obligation in the Egyptian Legal System
Heather Swadley (UPenn): From Civil Rights to the Courts: The Judicial Politics of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Virginia Passalacqua (EUI): From the EU With Love: The Mobilization of EU Free Movement Law in Defence of Marriage Migration in the UK
Jonas von Hoffmann (Oxford): Legal Marijuana Through Legal Mobilization in Mexico
Organizers: Filip Bubenheimer, Šimon Drugda, Etienne Hanelt
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This event is generously supported by Wolfson College and the Early Career Network of the Political Studies Association.