Schedule

Tuesday, December 15th

16:30 h. Inaugural Lecture

• Francisco J. Laporta (UAM). The reform of the constitution: concepts and tasks.

17:15 - 19:15 h. Roundtable 1: Constitutional reform as a process

Conference

• Roberto Gargarella (UBA). Constitutional change: law as a conversation between equals.

Speeches:

• Isabel Turégano (UCLM),  Citizen participation and constitutional change.

• Ricardo Cueva (UAM). Constitutional rigidity and justifications of democracy.

• Yolanda Gómez (UC3M). The implicit procedural limits of constitutional reform.

Colloquium

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Wednesday, December 16

12:00 - 14:00 h. Roundtable 2: Tasks for a constitutional reform (I).

Speakers:

• Jorge Urdánoz (UPNA). Is the constitution compatible with equality of vote? An unprecedented possibility: the Swedish model.

• Silvina Álvarez (UAM). The constitutional reception of private and family life.

• Fernando de los Santos (UAM). The constitutional reform of the freedom of parents to choose the religious and moral formation of their children.

• Ana Catalina Arango (IUE). Constitutional reform and institutional continuity: the role of the Colombian Constitutional Court in strengthening presidential power.

Colloquium

17:00 - 19:15 h. Roundtable 3: Constitutional reform and rigidity.

Conference

• Yaniv Roznai (IDC Herzliya). Constitutional Unamendability in an Age of Populism.

Lectures:

• Mariano Melero (UAM). The Implicit Limits to the Power of Constitutional Reform: problems of foundation and scope.

• Francisco Javier Pardo (UCLM). Reform, counter-reform or rupture: itineraries of constitutional change.

• José Mª Sauca (UC3M).  Constitutional liquidity clauses as a procedure for constitutional change.

Colloquium

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Thursday, December 17th

17:00 - 19:15 h. Roundtable 4: Tasks for a constitutional reform (II)

Conference

• Alain G. Gagnon (UQÀM). The Political Uses of Federalism: A Way out of the Spanish Impasse?

Lectures:

• Luis Rodríguez Abascal (UAM). The constitutional rigidity of political boundaries.

• Juan Carlos Bayón (UAM). Supranational integration and constitutional change: Can the rule of recognition be constitutionalized?

• Ascensión Elvira (UC3M). Constitutional reforms derived from Spain's membership of the European Union.

Colloquium

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