PAST CONFERENCES: 1999 

Thursday, September 16, 1999

Annual Lecture in International Law «Interpretation and Amendment of the Charters of International Organizations: The Relevance of Comparative Law» by Dr. Ibrahim F I. Shihata Senior Vice- President The World Bank 4:00 p.m. Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor  120 F Street, N.W.  -- A reception will be held  immediately following the lecture

Friday, September 17, 1999
Gewirz Student Center, 12th Floor
120 F Street, N.W.

8:40  8:45  9:00    9:15        10:15  10:30                12:15    1:30                  3:15  3:30          4:30

Greeting: Dean Judith Areen  Introductory comments: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist  Introduction and overview of the conference: Professor Vicki C. Jackson (Georgetown University Law Center)  A Japanese Perspective: Professor Kazuyuki Takahashi (University of Tokyo Faculty of Law): «Why Do We Study Other Constitutions, and How?»  Comment: President Percey Luney (National Judicial College)  Break  American Perspectives: Professor Lorraine Weinrib (University of Toronto Faculty of Law): «Cosmopolitan Rights»  The Honorable Roberto MacLean (Peru): «Judicial Systems: The Challenge for the 21st Century»  Comments: David Schneiderman (Center for Constitutional Studies, Alberta)                    Professor Donald Kommers (Notre Dame Law School)  Lunch:  Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School): «Rethinking the Separation of Powers»  European Perspectives: Professor Thomas Fleiner (University of Fribourg)  Professor Geoffrey Marshall (Queen’s College, Oxford): «Enacting a Bill of Rights: The UK Human Rights Act 1999 – A Pan-Glossary»  Professor Jean-Pierre Theron (University of Toulouse): «Economic and Social Rights in the Constitution»  Comment: Professor Winfried Brugger (University of Heidelberg)  Break  An Indian Perspective: Ratna Kapur (Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi):  «The Right to Freedom of Religion and Secularism in the Indian Constitution»  Comment: Professor Lynn Baker (University of Texas Law School)  North and South African Perspectives: A.M. Omar, Minister of Justice, Republic of South Africa  Dennis Davis, Judge, Republic of South Africa  Dr. Adel Omar Sherif, Supreme Court of Egypt  Comment:  Professor Mark Tushnet (Georgetown Law Center)

Reception:  6:00 p.m. ASCL Annual Dinner:  7:00 p.m. Fifth Floor Atrium of the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library

Saturday, September 18, 1999

Canceled due to Hurricane Floyd Room 200  McDonough Hall  600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. -- 9:00 am:  Annual Business Meeting of the Members of the Society, the Society’s Board of Directors, and the Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law -- 12:00 noon:  Conclusion of 1999 Annual Meeting

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