Programme
12:00-12:30 Lunch. Conference Room, Newcastle Law School
12:30-13:30: Session One: Constitutional Identities
Chair: Ruth Houghton
Bernardo Carvalho De Mello | The Constitutional Tapestry of Bolivia and Ecuador: Weaving Plurinational Identities into Law |
Emilia Mickiewicz and Francesco de Cecco | European constitutional identity and the realistic dystopia |
13:30-13:45 Break
13:45-15:00: Session Two: Rights
Chair: Francesco de Cecco
Ilke Turkmendag | Regulation of child’s “right-to-genetic-identity” in human reproduction |
Ebun Bamigboye | Children’s participation in peace processes |
Josh Jowitt | Legal personhood and the open texture of language |
15:00-15:15: Break
15:15-16:15: Session Three: Critical Approaches
Chair: Bernardo Carvalho De Mello
Emily Jones | No Future for Future Generations? Queering Environmental Law and Politics |
Ruth Houghton (co-author Aoife O’Donoghue) | Feminist Approaches to Constituent Power |
16:15-16:45: Final Reflections
Moderators: Francesco de Cecco and Ruth Houghton