—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School
The 2017 ICON-S annual mega-conference begins today in Copenhagen, hosted by the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of Law and iCourts – the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Excellence on International Courts. The theme for the program is “Courts, Power, and Public Law.” The conference runs July 5-7, 2017.
As in previous years, this edition of the ICON-S conference features plenary panels and hundreds of concurrent panels. An outline of the program is pasted below. Full details about the program are available here.
Congratulations and good luck to the hosts and organizers, and welcome to all to this year’s edition of the ICON-S conference!
Program Outline
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
13h00 – 16h00
Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel
Opening Remarks
Professor Gráinne de Búrca, NYU
Co-President, ICON-S
Professor Mikael Rask Madsen
Director of iCourts, University of Copenhagen
Keynote Address
Professor Bryan Stevenson
Equal Justice Initiative/NYU
Plenary Panel I: Global Economic Injustice
Professor Bhupinder Chimni
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Professor Katharina Pistor
Columbia Law School
Professor Joseph H.H. Weiler
NYU
Moderator: Professor Erika De Wet, University of Pretoria
17h00 – 18h30
Faculty of Law – University of Copenhagen
Parallel Panels Session I
18h30
Cocktail reception
Thursday, July 6, 2017
9h00 – 10h30
Faculty of Law – University of Copenhagen
Parallel Panels Session II
11h00 – 12h30
Parallel Panels Session III
14h00 – 15h30
Plenary Panel II: High Courts and Political Power: A Conversation with Three Prominent Jurists
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin
Supreme Court of Canada
Justice Marta Cartabia
Vice President of the Constitutional Court of Italy
Judge András Sajó
Central European University
Moderator: Professor Ran Hirschl, University of Toronto
16h00 – 17h30 p.m.
Parallel Panels Session IV
Friday, July 7, 2017
9h00 – 10h30
Faculty of Law – University of Copenhagen
Parallel Panels Session V
10h45 – 12h15
Parallel Panels Session VI
12h30 – 14h00
Plenary Panel III: International Courts in the 21st Century
President Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
International Criminal Court (ICC)
Shaheed Fatima
Senior Counsel, UK
Professor Mikael Rask Madsen
University of Copenhagen
Moderator: Professor Phoebe Okowa, Queen Mary
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