Programme

International Conference Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court

CONSTITUTIONALISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

2 and 3 March, 2023

2 March (Thursday)

08:30 - 09:10

Registration

09:15 - 10:00

Opening Session

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of the Republic

João Caupers, President of the Constitutional Court

10:00 - 10:45

Keynote Address

Introduction: Pedro Machete, Vice-President of the Constitutional Court

Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the European Union

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 -  13:00

First Panel: The Future of Constitutionalism

Chair: Maria Lúcia Amaral, Ombudsperson

Mattias Kumm, Inge Rennert Professor of Law (NYU)

Martin Loughlin, Professor of Public Law (LSE)

Richard Albert, William S. Farish Professor in Law (University of Texas at Austin)

13:00 - 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 -  16:45

Second Panel: Fundamental Rights and Duties in the 21st Century

Chair: Ana Maria Guerra Martins, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Paul Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law (Yale University)

Susanna Mancini, Professor of Comparative Public Law (University of Bologna)

Virgílio Afonso da Silva, Professor of Constitutional Law (University of São Paulo)

16:45 - 17:15

Coffee Break

17:15 -  19:00

Third Panel: The Separation of Powers in the 21st Century

Chair: Maria de Fátima Mata-Mouros, President of the Political Accouting Entity

Aileen Kavanagh, Professor of Constitutional Governance (Trinity College Dublin)

Anna-Bettina Kaiser, Professor of Public Law (Humboldt University in Berlin)

Giovanni De Gregorio, PLMJ Chair in Law and Technology (Católica Global School of Law)

3 March (Friday)

09:00 - 10:45

Fourth Panel: Constitutional Adjudication in the 21st Century

Chair: Maria dos Prazeres Beleza, Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice

Richard Ekins, Professor of Constitutional Government (University of Oxford)

Roni Mann, Director of Humanities (Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin)

Wojciech Sadurski, Challis Professor of Jurisprudence (University of Sydney)

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 13:00

Fifth Panel: Constitutional Pluralism in the 21st Century

Chair: Maria José Rangel de Mesquita, Professor of EU Law (University of Lisbon)

Alexander Somek, Professor of Jurisprudence (University of Vienna)

Marcelo Neves, Professor of Public Law (University of Brasília)

Signe Larsen, Fellow by Examination at Magdalen College (University of Oxford)

13:00 - 13:30

Closing Session

Gonçalo de Almeida Ribeiro, Judge of the Constitutional Court

João Caupers, President of the Constitutional Court