Constitutional Law Conference 2024 (Staatsrechtconferentie)

About the conference 
The Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law of Leiden University will organise the 2024 edition of the yearly ‘Constitutional Law Conference’ (Staatsrechtconferentie). It will take place at the Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw in Leiden on December 13th. The central theme of this conference is ‘The Constitution outside the Constitution’.

During the conference, participating scholars will reflect on the ways in which constitutions are shaped by elements that are not found in the actual canonical text. One of the central topics covered is the role of constitutional conventions or constitutive statutes that are not as such part of the canonical text of the Constitution within the scope of the small-c-constitution. In addition, various developments and challenges will be discussed which (may) impact the application of constitutional norms or affect current discussions on constitutionalism (e.g. the emergence of the (digital) administrative state, populism, and climate change). 
 

Conference speakers

•  Prof. Thomas Beukers (Professor of Institutional Law and Practice of the European Union, University of Amsterdam)

• Dr. Vestert Borger, LLM (Assistant Professor of European Union Law, Leiden University)

• Dr. Gert Jan Geertjes, LLM (Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)

• Dr. Giulia Gentile, LLM (Lecturer in Law, Essex School of Law)

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

• Ola Al Khatib, LLM (PhD Candidate at Utrecht University)

• Prof. Roel de Lange (Professor emeritus of Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam)

• Prof. Ingrid Leijten (Professor of Dutch and European Constitutional Law, Tilburg University)

• Prof. Anne Meuwese (Professor of Public Law & Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Leiden University)

• Dr. Luísa Pinto e Netto, LLM (Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)

• Siân McGibbon (Doctoral Student at University College London)

• Prof. Jerfi Uzman (Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam)

• Prof. Mila Versteeg (Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law)

• Prof. Wim Voermans (Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law, Leiden University)

Target audience 
Legal scholars, Public servants and anyone else interested in the central theme of the conference

Remote attendance      
Remote attendance is not available for this conference.

Do you have any questions?
We will gladly answer them.

E-mail: events@law.leidenuniv.nl
Phone: +31 (0)71 527 8666
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€ 112,50 (excluding VAT)
including lunches and digital conference materials