Colloquium

The Constitutional Transitions Colloquium

At the intersection of research and education, the Constitutional Transitions Colloquium serves as a forum for cutting-edge analysis of the latest scholarship on constitution building. It is of interest to members of the academic, diplomatic, think tank and NGO communities.

The Constitutional Transitions Colloquium operates as a key center for constitution building discussions and debates worldwide.

• New York University (NYU) School of Law hosts the Constitutional Transitions Colloquium 12 times per year.
• It features leading experts on constitutional law and politics.
• Each session is open to the public and available for viewing globally by webcast.
• Sessions revolve around an annual theme that complements the projects undertaken by the team of researchers working in the Constitutional Transitions Clinic.  

The theme for the 2012-13 academic year is “The Middle East Revolutions”, featuring leading experts from the Middle East, Europe and North America on the constitutional law and politics of the region. For the 2012-13 year, the Constitutional Transitions Colloquium is jointly sponsored by our partner, International IDEA.

The schedule for the Constitutional Transitions Colloquium is found below.

Schedule

All Spring 2013 Sessions will take place from 1400 to 1550 at Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012

Click here for a printable version of the schedule.

September 12, 2012

The Least Religious Branch? Judicial Review after the Arab Spring. More info / Watch video

Intisar Rabb, NYU

October 10, 2012

Revolution and Constitution-Making in Iran and the Arab World. More info / Watch video

Said Arjomand, Stony Brook University (SUNY)

October 24, 2012

Post-Tahrir Politics and the Puzzling End to Islamic Inflation. More info / Watch video

Nathan Brown, George Washington University

November 14, 2012

Executive Powers in Egypt’s New Constitution. More info

Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College

November 28, 2012

Election Laws, Social Ties and Political Representation in the Arab World. More info / Watch video

Ellen Lust, Yale University

January 30, 2013

Winter is Coming: Authoritarian Constitutionalism Under Strain in the Gulf. More info / Watch video

Gianluca Parolin, American University of Cairo, The Center for Constitutional Transitions at NYU Law, Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU Law

February 13, 2013

Is There Such a Thing as an Islamic Public Law, and Does Its Existence Matter for Post-Authoritarian Arab Regimes? More info / Watch video

Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto

February 27, 2013

Constitutional Islam: Genealogies, Transmissions, and Meanings. More info / Watch video

Kristen Stilt,  Northwestern University

April 3, 2013

A Kemalist Secular Age? Negotiating the Islam-Modernity Binary in Turkey

Asli Bâli, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

May 1, 2013

After Revolution: Divine and Popular Sovereignty after the Arab Spring

Andrew March, Yale University