This conference, organised by Maastricht University, seeks to conceptualise how developments such as Europeanisation, globalisation, digitalisation, and various crises and emergencies affect constitutionalism and democracy and potentially transform their mutual relationship. A key objective of the seminar is to identify the complex variety of actors involved in this transformation, including key drivers as well as losers and winners.
This will be a two-day event, with Carmen Pavel (Associate Professor in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the Department of Political Economy at King’s College, London) as keynote speaker. The keynote speech will be followed by a number of sessions in which members of the network will present their own work-in-progress.
Session I
• Laura Buffoni: The Constitution of democracy: Against nature
• Cormac Mac Amhlaigh: Political Constitutionalism and Political Realism
• Donald Bello Hutt: A Perfectionist Rule of Law? Reflections from Machiavelli
Session II
• Ruth Houghton: Constituent Power as Utopian Impulse
• Massimo Fichera: Communal constitutionalism and the notion of legitimate authority
• Francesco Rizzi Brignoli: Beyond the Non-Identity Problem: Constitutional Identity and the Challenge of Future Generations
Session III
• Victoria Kristan and Wojciech Sadurski: Post-Populism in Poland: A Legal Cage
• Roland Pierik: On the importance of judicial review within the European Convention system
• Julian Scholtes: The Venice Commission and the mental map of European Constitutionalism
Session IV
• Patricia Garcia Majado: Artificial intelligence: a normative power?
• Marta Maroni: Digital Constitutionalism: A Methodology
• Francesco Bilancia: Digital Content Moderation as Freedom of Speech Protection
Session V
• Sebastian Reyes Molina: The Wisdom of the Crowd: AI and the epistemic dilemma for deliberative democracy
• Maarten Stremler: The Structure of Fundamental Rights: A Norm-Based Analysis
• Sebastian Lewis: Customary Law and the Limits of the Rule of Recognition.