Young researchers attending the conference are encouraged to present their own research in this field in form of a poster.  im

Over the past few years, a series of political scandals have raised the ‘new constitutional question’. Multinational corporations violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet threatened freedom of opinion, and recently, with particular impact, the global capital markets unleashed catastrophic risks – all of these pose constitutional problems in the strict sense. It is outside the limits of the nation-state in transnational politics and, at the same time, outside institutionalized politics, in the ‘private’ sectors of global society that these constitutional problems arise.

In the conference, social scientists and lawyers will discuss the question whether Constitutionalism has the potential to counteract the expansionist tendencies of social systems outside the state, particularly the globalized economy, science and technology, and the information media, when they endanger individual or institutional autonomy.

The 2012 National Convention will provide participants with the opportunity to engage with exciting speakers, participate in rigorous debate and discussion of critical legal and public policy issues, network with lawyers and company representatives from around the country, and contribute to the development of a progressive vision of the Constitution, the law and public policy.

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The courts were meant to play an integral role in keeping legislators and executive branch officials within the proper bounds of their authority, but judges today are often unwilling or feel unable to enforce constitutional limits on government power.

The Institute for Justice and the George Mason Law Review invite you to a symposium that seeks to move beyond the imprecise and unhelpful rhetoric of so-called judicial activism and simply ask whether judges are properly engaged in their role of interpreting and applying the constitution.

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Submissions from both junior and senior scholars are invited. Abstracts (up to 800 words) should be sent in .pdf or .doc format to administrativelaw|at|irpa.eu by March 31, 2012. Conference papers will be published in the NYU Jean Monnet Working Papers Series. The best contributions may also become part of a symposium dedicated to the “New Theories of Administrative Law,” to be published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I•CON). More information can be found here.

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