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CT Clinic (2012-2014)
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Colloquium (Fall 2013 Series)
Constitutional Transitions Colloquium 2012-2013 Series
From Fall 2012 through Fall 2013, Constitutional Transitions ran a Colloquium series while at the New York University School of Law.
For information on the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series, click here.
The theme for the 2012-13 series was “The Middle East Revolutions,” featuring leading experts from the Middle East, Europe and North America on the constitutional law and politics of the region. The 2012-13 Constitutional Transitions Colloquium series was jointly sponsored by our partner, International IDEA.
Colloquium Events
September 12, 2012
The Least Religious Branch? Judicial Review after the Arab Spring.
Intisar Rabb, NYU
October 10, 2012
Revolution and Constitution-Making in Iran and the Arab World.
Said Arjomand, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
October 24, 2012
Post-Tahrir Politics and the Puzzling End to Islamic Inflation.
Nathan Brown, George Washington University
November 14, 2012
Executive Powers in Egypt’s New Constitution.
Mona El-Ghobashy, Barnard College
November 28, 2012
Election Laws, Social Ties and Political Representation in the Arab World.
Ellen Lust, Yale University
January 30, 2013
Winter is Coming: Authoritarian Constitutionalism Under Strain in the Gulf.
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?
Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto
February 27, 2013
Constitutional Islam: Genealogies, Transmissions, and Meanings.
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
For information on the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series, click here