[IntLawProfessors] GoJIL Symposium on the Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law, March 9-10 2012, Göttingen, Germany

[Karen Schwabe]

The Goettingen Journal of International Law (GoJIL) in cooperation with 
the Institute of International and European Law, 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, and the Minerva Center for Human     
                                                                         
                  Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is pleased to 
announce its

  international symposium on**

*Precursors to International Constitutionalism:*

*The Development of the German Constitutional Approach to International Law*

*March 9-10 2012, Paulinerkirche, Göttingen, Germany*

International constitutionalism is in the focus of contemporary 
international legal debate and practice, as evidenced by the recent 
Kadi-Jurisprudence of the European Courts and the burgeoning literature 
that employs constitutional as well as fragmentation terms with respect 
to modern international law -- dealing with the pluralistic structure of 
modern international law, post-national law and constitutional 
pluralism. This seemingly new discourse is all-pervasive, with 
implications in international politics, law, trade and human rights.

However, this project maintains that this is not an entirely new 
discourse. Its precursors can be found in what could be considered to be 
a "German" constitutional approach towards International Public Law 
(/Völkerrecht/) that has been characterized by a strong constitutional 
understanding for centuries. While the roots of the discussion can be 
traced back to the Eighteenth Century, this has especially been the case 
in the Twentieth Century, as discernable in German and Austrian 
teachings, from the scholarship of Albert Verdross (with his 1926 
'Verfassung der Völkerrechtsgemeinschaft') to Bardo Fassbender's 
contemporary analysis of the UN Charter as an international constitution.

The cooperation between the Minerva Center for Human Rights, Hebrew 
University Jerusalem, the Institute of International and European Law, 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Goettingen Journal of 
International Law (GoJIL) investigates the historical development and 
gradual crystallization of a "German" constitutional approach in both 
theoretical and practical aspects. The project also fosters the current 
debate on modern international law with regard to constitutionalization 
and fragmentation trends. European constitutional thinking with respect 
to international law will play a role as well as current ideas of 
international constitutionalization in international organizations and 
tribunals, mainly the International Court of Justice, the European Court 
of Justice and the WTO.

*Provisional Timetable*

*_March 9 2012, 14:00_*

*Panel 1: */Origins: The development of national and international 
federalism/

*Panel 2:*/The Historical and Philosophical Background of International 
Constitutionalism II: Neo-Kantian Universalism and International Law/

/Dinner/

*_March 10 2012, 9:00_*

*Panel 3: */Judicial Constitutionalism and its Limits/

*Panel 4: */A fragmented Constitutionalism or a Pluralistic Postnational 
Order?/

*Conclusion and closing remarks*

/Lunch/

*Registration*

Interested scholars and students are invited to attend the conference in 
the audience and to contribute to the discussions following the 
presentation of the papers.

Registration fee:    15,00 € (scholars) / 10,00 € (students)

(including conference-materials, coffee and snacks during the conference)

*Deadline:               February 20, 2012*

To register for the conference, please send an email to 
conference at gojil.eu <mailto:conference at gojil.eu>. Please indicate if you 
would like to join us at your own charge for dinner and/or lunch.

Note that there is only a limited number of seats!

**Further information are available on conference.gojil.eu 
<http://conference.gojil.eu/>.

*We are looking forward to your participation.      The Conference 
Committee*

**

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<http://gojil.uni-goettingen.de/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102>Sponsored 
by: Joachim Herz Stiftung, Volkswagenstiftung
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