​​WG 1: Dignity I
Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 302

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• Angioletta Sperti, Arguments of Dignity and Pluralism Concerns in Recent Constitutional Court Adjudication

• Hanna-Maria Niemi, Human Dignity in the Practice of the Finnish Courts of the Highest Instances

• Michely Vargas Del Puppo Romanello & Jose Geraldo Romanello Bueno, The Causes of Disinheritance and the Dignity of the Heir in Testamentary and Legitimate Successions

• Roberta Freitas Guerra, Brazilian Labor Reform: Between Economic Austerity and the New Labor Law of Exception (or on how the Human Dignity of Workers was Put in Check)

• Matilda Chatzipanagiotou, How is ‘Human’ Dignity Empty? Portraying the 'Human' Component of the Law of Human Dignity: An Affirmative Stance Towards 'Something Missing'

• Bettina Huber, Kann der Begriff der Würde als Haltung sinnvoll auf nichtmenschliche Tiere angewendet werden?

• Katharina Bauer, Do Not Make Yourself a Worm – A Duty to Oneself to Respect One’s Own Dignity

• Mirjam van der Heide, Dignity in Protest

• Marina García-Granero, Neoliberalism and the Rise of Aporophobia

• Jeyoun Son, Is Human Dignity a Trojan Horse that Threatens Liberal Society

• Agnieszka Nogal, Human Dignity as a Legal Practice in the Context of Various Theoretical Justifications

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WG 2: Dignity II

Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 316

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• Lillian Ponchio e Silva Marchi & Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Bioethics, Dignity and Vulnerability in Latin America

• Michely Vargas Del Puppo Romanello & Jose Geraldo Romanello Bueno, The Patient's Civil Responsibility

• Henrieta Anisoara Serban, Dignity, Responsibility and Justice - Main Pillars of Democracy

• Oksana Hryshchuk, Philosophy of Human Dignity in Law

• Andrea Faggion, On the Possibility of Law without Dignity

• Luis Felipe Vergara, The Special Function of the Principle of Human Dignity as a Concept of Positive Law

• Tom Hannant, Dignity and Non-Domination

• Miriam Rocha, Dignity and Equality: A Fruitful or a Sterile Relationship?

• Duška Franeta, Human Dignity as an Existentiale? Ricoeur’s Account of Dignity and Law

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WG 3: Nature, Sustainability & Environment

Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Sentimatt 111

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• Adriana Machado Yaghsisian, Catherine de Souza Santos & Simone Alves Cardoso, International Environmental Mediation and the Ethics of Modernity

• Petra Gümplová, Rights of Conquest, Discovery and Occupation, and the Freedom of the Seas and the Genealogy of Natural Resource Injustice

• Anna Beatriz Savioli, Public Procurement as Tool for Promoting Organic and Family Agriculture Policy in Brazil

• Alexander Pearl, The (Next) Big Short and the End of the Anthropocene

• Monim Benaissa, La jonction entre le droit de la mer, le droit de l'environnement, et le droit des droits de l'homme dans le cadre de l'action contre la pêche illégale et l'immigration clandestine en mer

• Zeynep Özlem Üskül Engin, Accès à la Nourriture Saine en Tant qu’un Droit de l’Homme

• Jane Maslow Cohen & Lawrence G. Sager, The Human Right to Water: A Generally Cautious, Partially Cautionary, Modestly Optimistic Assessment

• Gabriela Soldano Garcez, Mass Tourism and the Search for Sustainable Cities According to 2030 Agenda: An Opportunity for Governance and Paradiplomacy

• Masato Fukuhara, Future Generations and the Boundary Problem of Democracy

• Michael Monterossi, Dignifying Natural Things?

• Felix Ekardt, Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Legal and Philosophical Analysis with Regard to Sustainability

 

 

WG 4: AI & (New) Technologies

Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 314

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• Paolo Sommaggio & Samuela Marchiori, Moral Dilemmas in the A.I. Era: A New Approach

• Mickhael Erik Alexander Bachmann, Ruling Artificial Intelligence: A Turn in the Way of Thinking Law

• Vladislav V. Arkhipov, Semantic Limits of Law: A Theory to Tackle the Challenges of Post-Modern Information Society

• Nuria Lopez, The Life of our - Natural and Artificial - Minds

• Zou Xiao-mei, Study on the Construction of Social Identity Based on the Diversification of Cyber Society

• Yang Yi & Liu Anqi, On the Status of Intellectual Property Protection Webcast

• Mikołaj Firlej, Regulating Human Control over Autonomous Systems

• Javier de la Cueva, Source Code, Algorithms and the Rule of Law

• Gloria Ziglioli, Social Digital Metamorphosis: When Technology Overruns Healthcare Services. Spaces and Values For a New Care Labour Paradigm

• Jerônimo Romanello Neto & Jose Geraldo Romanello Bueno, The Techno-Scientific Advances of Modern Medicine in Support of Human Dignity on Diversity

• Raúl Madrid, The Conditions of Possibility of Technological Deconstruction from Human to Posthuman

 

 

WG 5: Citizenship & Constitutionalism

Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 302

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• Viktorija Soņeca, Coverage of the Principle of Primacy of European Union Law vs National Identity

• Elena Prats, Selling Votes in the European Union? Presenting Citizenship by Investment Programs and their Relation to Democracy

• Rufat Babayev, 'Brexit’, Transition and the Acquired Rights of Union Citizens?

• Perica Jovchevski, The Political Allegiances of the Excluded: Practicing Substantive Citizenship in Multicultural Societies

• Nicola Dimitri, Solidarieta: Il paradigma della fraternita nel gioco normativo delle costituzioni

• Marko Bozic, The Role of the Sovereignty in the Justification of Constitutional Justice. A Reflection on Michel Troper's Marshall, Kelsen, Barak et le sophisme constitutionnaliste

• Melis Menent, Dignity and Citizenship in Constitutional Patriotism

• Fernando Gabriel Ghiggi, Constitutional Democracy’s Pyrrhic Victory

• Lucía Giudice, La interpretación del artículo 44 de la Constitución uruguaya de acuerdo a los poderes del Estado: una disputa por el alcance del derecho a la salud

• Helga María Lell, The Constitutional Hierarchy of the Legal Concept of Person in the Argentinian Legal System

• Gerard Conway, The Role of Equality in Systematic Constitutional Interpretation

• Cheng Naisheng & Jiang Zhenchun, Natural Law Interpretation in American Judicial Review

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WG 6: Bioethics, Reproduction & Childrens’ Rights

Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 203

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• Lillian Ponchio e Silva Marchi & Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Advance Directive of Will: The Autonomy of the Person

• Liu Yigong, Genome Editing, Human Dignity and Legal Regulation

• Dawid Bunikowski, Criminology and Abortion Law in the Nordic Countries

• Seow Hon Tan, Commercial Surrogacy and Human Flourishing

• Whitney Rosenberg, The Use of Baby Safes: An Investigation into the Right to Life of an Abandoned Child versus his or her Right to Knowledge of Origins, Which is More Important?

• María Aránzazu Novales Alquézar, Dignidad, igualdad de género y reproducción asistida

• Sergio Daniel Ruiz Díaz Arce, La protección de la infancia en los argumentos de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: análisis, evaluación y efectos de la Opinión Consultiva 17

 

 

WG 7: Democracy I

Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 217

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• Douglas Carvalho Ribeiro, Does Right Wing Populism Threaten Democracy? A German Case Study

• Débora Caetano Dahas, The Rise of the Right: Populism and the Attack on the so-called Cultural Marxism

• Loiane Prado Verbicaro & Ridivan Clairefont de Souza Mello Neto, Neoliberalism and Humanitarian Crisis: The Advance of Post-Democratic States

• Aakash Laad & Mohd. Aamir Siraj, Perversion of Authority by the Defenders of Law, Order and Security

• Yxta Maya Murray, Epistemic Injustice in Puerto Rico

• Boldizsár Szentgáli-Tóth, Legislation with Qualified Majority, and the Principle of Democracy

• Ikanyeng S. Malila, Ubunto/Botho ('Humanity'), Citizenship and Governance

• Columbus Ogbujah, Ethics of Exclusion and its Impact on Nigeria's Trudge to Democracy

 

 

WG 8: Democracy II

Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 303

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• Karla Karolina Harada Souza, Democracy, Governance and the Problem of Diversity Opposed to the Universality of Human Rights

• Dong-il Kim, Can We Make a Democratic Decision by Voting?

• Paolo Bodini, Compulsory Voting: Enforced Democracy or Full Participation?

• Sasso Pagnou, Pour un réalisme juridique des processus électoraux dans les pays de l’Uémoa

• Laetitia Ramelet, Elections as a Manifestation of the Citizens' Consent to their Authorities' Rule

• Xin Zhang, Information Technology and E-Participation: An Empirical Study on Online Solicitation of Opinions on Lawmaking by the National People’s Congress

• Tatsuya Yokohama, Immigration Justice and Political Membership

• Fernando Laércio Alves da Silva, Constitutional Control or Usurpation of Function? The Decision of the Brazilian Supreme Court in the Direct Action of Unconstitutionality n. 5874

 

 

WG 9: Democracy III

Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Sentimatt 120

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• Rafal Manko, Reconstructing Judicial Legitimacy: From Reductionist Deductionism to Democratic Decisionism

• Mohammed Rida Nour, La Démocratie: le nom volé d’une idée violée

• Silvia Zullo, Increasing Inequalities and Social Rights under Attack: What Perspectives Are There for Justice as Fairness and Democratic Egalitarianism?

• Minami Murata, The Tyranny of the Majority and Antagonism: John Stuart Mill on Democracy

• Chung FangHua, The Thinking of Liberal Democracy as Secular Religion? A Critical Reflection from Hans Kelsen’s Theory of Liberal Democracy

• Lucretia Dogaru, The Will and Reason of the Legislator in the Legal System

• Po-Jung Su, Kritik an der Diskurstheorie des Völkerrechts bei Jürgen Habermas

• César Ortega Esquembre, The Meaning of a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy for Jürgen Habermas´s Critical Theory

• Chaxiraxi Escuela Cruz, Totalitarismos y liquidación del individuo: una mirada desde Hannah Arendt y Theodor W. Adorno

• Kaj Späth, The Inherent Limits of Democracy – A Model

• Andrea Carcano, The Deconsolidation of Democracy in Times of Globalisation and Populism: What Role for Legal Scholars?

 

 

WG 10: Democracy IV

Tuesday 9 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 501

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• Amy J. Sepinwall, Complicity and the Scope of Constitutional Rights

• Anne Wesemann, Saving Europe – The Revolutionary Effect of Constitutional Rights Norms

• Seonmi Jang, The Constitutional Right as a Political Right

• Edilson Vitorelli, Group Rights: Ensuring Diversity in Collective Litigation

• Elena Ziliotti, Against Political Egalitarianism

• Mihai Bădescu, Société civile – coordonnées contemporaines. Etude de cas: Roumanie

• Mohammed Rida Nour, Démocratie et finances: Duo ou duel?

• Chen Guodong, Justice and Democracy in the Process of Economic Reform and Transformation: China's Experience, Problems and Enlightenment

• Leonardo Mellace, The EU’s Democratic Deficit in Times of Crisis

• Larissa Ribeiro & Ana Beatriz Eufrauzino de Araújo, 50-50: An Analysis of Partial Democracy as a Tool to Social and Economic Development in Latin America

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WG 11: Diversity, Identity & Rights

Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, Löwengraben 303

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• Heidi Gilchrist, Act Normal or Get Out? An Examination of the Idea of ‘Normal” and Ideas of Diversity and Inclusion

• Yuichiro Mori, Statistical Discrimination and Treatment as an Individual

• Amanda Boniface, Different Types of Marriages in South Africa: Diversity or Discrimination?

• Ana Jara Gomez, Identity and Rights: Materials for a Discussion on Exclusionary Cultures

• Soundarya Lahari Vedula, Annihilation of Caste

• Neda Kardooni, Cultural Diversity Terminology and De-Securitized State-Minority Relations in Iran

• Charlotte Helen Skeet, Feminism, Diversity and Democracy: Lessons from the Scottish Constitutional Convention Thirty Years On

• Clara Moura Masiero, Legal Mobilisation, Rights and Social Change in Brazil: Reasons for Optimism

• Loiane Prado Verbicaro & Roberto de Almeida Pereira Barros, El hiato entre el hombre y el ciudadano: La vida desnuda y la dependencia de los derechos humanos a los esquemas de poder de los estados nación

 

 

WG 12: International & Global Perspectives

Monday 8 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 13

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• Florian Weber, Legal Internationalisation Strategies – Confronting Democracy with ist Extraterritorial Conditions of Existence

• Maria Julia Cruz da Fonseca, The Chameleon of International Law: A Case Study on Soft Law

• Andreas Follesdal, Current Contributions of the Natural Law Tradition to International Law

• Chia-Yin Chang, On Constitutionalism in the Age of Globalization: Is Transnational Constitutionalism Possible?

• Camilla Capucio, Dignity of the Human Person as a Foundation of the Duty of Cooperation Between States: Towards a Universal Justice?

• Renee Nicole Souris, Dignity, Development, and the Gravity of Child Soldiering

• Ntandokayise Ndhlovu, International Law as a Tool against Child Marriage in Zimbabwe

• Wang Yue & Zhang Sheng-nan, On the Legal Guarantee of Bohai Rim Regional Economic Integration

• Alexander Pearl, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, and the Global Climate Crisis

• July Cassiani Hernandez, Approach to Development and Poverty in Cartagena from a Brief Historical Analysis

 

 

WG 13: Conflict, Peace & Transition

Friday 12 July, 14.00-18.30, HS 14

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• Andrew (Fu Yuan) Liu, Taking Responsibility for Unintended Civilian Casualties: The Reasonable Military Commander as the Standard to Assess Indirect Collateral Damage and Reverberating Effects

• Sangsu Kim, Command Responsibility in War

• Lorenzo Cavalaglio & Adèle Julia Chenaux, Dignité de l’homme et guerre “humanitaire”: la nouvelle signification du concept traditionnel de guerre “juste”

• Adriana Machado Yaghsisian, Catherine de Souza Santos & Simone Alves Cardoso, Preventive Diplomacy as a Tool for International Conflict Prevention and Maintenance of Peace

• Attila Nagy, Dignity, Democracy and Diversity in Post-Conflict Societies

• Hiro Saito, Nationalism and Imperialism in Transitional Justice: A Cosmopolitan Critique

• Rabia Sağlam & Kasım Akbaş, Rogue and Non-Rogue States: The Dilemma of the Legitimate Monopoly of Violence

• Esthefânia Guerra Guimarães, The Role of Conflict in Contemporary Democracies

 

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WG 14: Migration, Immigration and Refugeehood

Thursday 11 July, 14.00-18.30, Museggstrasse 316

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• T. C. Christopher, Canada’s Right to Multiculturalism in the Current Global Context: Human Dignity, Refugees and Migrants

• Joseph A. Indaimo, Dignity with Diversity: Levinas & the European Responses to the Recent Refugee Crisis

• Mitsuki Hirai, Immigration, Agency, and the Rule of Law

• Kostas Koukouzelis, Refining Modern Republicanism: Border Controls and Non-Domination

• Susumu Morimura, Libertarians on the Restrictions of Immigration

• Abhinav Singh Chandel, International Refugee Rights and Sovereignty: An Evolving Discourse on the Challenges of Statehood

• André Luiz Siciliano, The Migration Right as an Underestimated Human Right

• Eilidh Beaton, Justifying Refugee Rights to Family Reunification

• Matija Žgur, Arbitrariness on the Frontlines: Analysing Legal Exclusion in the Interaction between Irregular Immigrants and Host Country Legal Officials

• Joanna Ptak-Chmiel, Defining the Undefinable? Critical Analysis of Public and Academic Discourse on the Definition of Honour-Related Violence in the Context of Migration

• Camelia Tigau, The Historical Preference for Skilled Migrants in North American and European Migration Diplomacy

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