ICON S Conference 17 – 19 June 2016 Humboldt University Berlin

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 → UL6 Audimax
1:00 pm Opening
Remarks
Ran Hirschl
University of Toronto
Ran Hirschl is the Co-President
of the International Society of
Public Law ( ICON S ) and Professor
of Political Science and
Law at the University of Toronto,
where he holds the Canada Research
Chair in Constitutionalism,
Democracy and Development. His research focuses
on comparative public law, constitutional and
judicial politics, and comparative legal traditions and
institutions more generally. He is the author of Towards
Juristocracy (Harvard), Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard)
and Comparative Matters (Oxford), as well as
over eighty articles and book chapter on comparative
constitutional law and politics. In 2014, Ran Hirschl
was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
In 2016, he was awarded a prestigious Alexander von
Humboldt Professorship by the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Germany.
Mattias Kumm
WZB Berlin
Social Science Center,
Humboldt University Berlin,
New York University
Mattias Kumm is Professor for
“Global Public Law” at the WZB
Berlin Social Science Center,
where he directs the WZB Center
for Global Constitutionalism, as well as Professor for
“Rule of Law in the Age of Globalization” at Humboldt
University Berlin. He is also the Inge Rennert Professor
of Law at the New York University School of Law, where
he teaches every fall.
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