Convegno "Landmark Judgments"

PROGRAM

Thursday, September 14, 2023

09:30 – 09:45 OPENING REMARKS

• Federico Casolari (University of Bologna)
• Francesco Biagi (University of Bologna)
• Jason Mazzone (University of Illinois)
• Justin O. Frosini (Bocconi University)

09.45 – 11.15 KEYNOTE

• Hon. Mirosław Granat (Professor, Cardinal Stanislaw Wyszyński University; Former Judge, Polish Constitutional Court): Is There a Place for Landmark Decisions in the Civil Law System?
• Chair: Francesco Biagi (University of Bologna)

11:15 – 11:30 BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 PANEL ONE: LANDMARKS IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

• Catarina Botelho & Marta Vicente (Universidade Católica Portuguesa): The Portuguese Constitutional Court and its Landmarks
• Justin O. Frosini (Bocconi University): The Legal Value of Constitutional Preambles and the Significance of the Grande Décision of the Conseil Constitutionnel of 1971
• Ana Robalinho (Yale Law School): A Needle in a Haystack: Forward-looking Criteria for Identifying Landmark Judgements and the Case of Brazil
• Chair: Jason Mazzone (University of Illinois)

13:00 – 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 – 16:00 PANEL TWO: LANDMARKS AND JUDICIAL POWER

• Francesco Biagi (University of Bologna): Judgment no. 1 of 1956: A Founding Moment in Italian Constitutionalism
• Saul Cornell (Fordham University): The Second Amendment and Constitutional Time: Originalism, Historicism, and Constitutional Meaning
• Yvonne Tew (Georgetown University Law Center): Malaysia’s Judicial Empowerment Moment: Indira Gandhi
• Chair: Jason Mazzone (University of Illinois)

Friday, September 15, 2023

9:30 – 11:00 PANEL THREE: LANDMARKS ACROSS TIME AND SPACE

• Jud Mathews (Pennsylvania State University): Solange as Promise and Threat
• Leonardo Pierdominici (University of Bologna): The Landmark Footnote Four of United States v. Carolene Products as a Case Study in Globalization of Constitutional Law
• Mauro Arturo Rivera Leon (University of Silesia in Katowice): On the Chronology of Landmark Judgments
• Chair: Susanna Mancini (University of Bologna)

11:00 – 11:15 BREAK

11:15 – 12:45 PANEL FOUR: LANDMARK SUCCESSES AND FAILURES

• Marie Laur (Central European University): The Unremarkable Destiny of Landmark Cases in the Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of Mali
• Dan Rodriguez (Northwestern University) & Barry Weingast (Stanford University): Lochner and Lochnerism: Perspectives on Constitutions, Constitutional Review and the Scope of the Police Power in the U.S.
• Zoltán Szente (TK Institute for Legal Studies): The Rise and Fall of a Landmark Judgment: The Death Penalty Case in Hungary
• Chair: Justin O. Frosini (Bocconi University)

12.45 – 14.15 LUNCH

14:15 – 15:45 PANEL FIVE: LANDMARKS AND DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM

• Lidia Bonifati (University of Bologna): The ‘Constituent People’s Case’ and its Impact on the Multinational Nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Molefhi Phorego (Nelson Mandela University): The Public Protector as a Mechanism to Enhance Presidential Accountability for Cabinet Appointments in South Africa: Re-Visiting Nkandla
• Carlos Arturo Gutierrez Rodriguez (University of Padua): Peace Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice: The Colombian Landmark Decision on the Legal Framework for Peace
• Chair: Francesco Biagi (University of Bologna)

15:45 – 16:15 CONCLUSION & FUTURE DIRECTIONS