Justice, Democracy and the Constitutional State

This cycle of keynote talks by foremost jurists, politologists and sociologists on the international scene sets out to address issues with a major impact today on democracy and the constitutional state. The cycle will be looking at subjects such as emerging rights in the age of globalization and the processes of privatization in Law and Justice.

Directors of the Dialogues:
José Manuel Bandrés, Supreme Court judge.
Pere Fabra, Professor of Philosophy of Law and Vice-Chancellor of the Open University of Catalonia.

Programme

Tuesday, 26 April

7 p.m. WELCOME AND PRESENTATION

Jaume Badia, Assistant Director of the CCCB.
Ramon Camp i Batalla, spokesperson of the General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain.
Pilar Fernández i Bozal, Minister for Justice of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia.

7.30 p.m. HOW HUMAN RIGHTS VALIDITY CAN BE ENSURED WORLDWIDE?

Ernesto Garzón Valdés, Emeritus Professor in Political Science at Mainz University.

Presentation: José Manuel Bandrés, Supreme Court judge.

Tuesday 3 May

6.30 p.m. JUSTICE IN JEOPARDY?

Alan Rau, Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.

Presentation: Víctor Ferreres, tenured lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Pompeu Fabra and lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Escola Judicial (Judicial School of the General Council of the Judiciary).

Tuesday 10 May

7.30 p.m.POVERTY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE

Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University and author inter alia of La pobreza en el mundo y los derechos humanos (Paidós Ibérica, 2005), published in English as World Poverty and Human Rights (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002).

Presentation: Pere Fabra, Professor of Philosophy of Law and Vice-Chancellor of the Open University of Catalonia.

Tuesday 17 May

7.30 p.m. LAW, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND CHALLENGES TO JUSTICE

Peer Zumbansen, director of the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.

Presentation: Roser Bach, judge and Director of the Centre for Legal Studies and Specialised Training of the Department of Justice.

Tuesday 24 May

7.30 p.m. PROCESSES OF PRIVATISATION IN LAW AND JUSTICE

Antoine Garapon, judge, General-Secretary of the Institut des Hautes Études sur la Justice, Paris, and author inter alia of Juez y democracia, Una reflexión muy actual (Flor del Viento, 1998 – Judge and Democracy: A Most Up-to-Date Reflection).

Presentation: Félix Azón, spokesperson for the General Council of the Judicial Power of Spain.