ICON S Conference 17 – 19 June 2016 Humboldt University Berlin

FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 → UL6 Audimax
1:15 – Keynote
2:30 pm SPeech
Asylum and Migration Today:
An Indispensable Reflection
on the Notion of Border
Migration is not a “challenge”, it is a social fact – a
reality – and, historically, a richness. Europe is barricading
itself in the belief that walls will protect it, it is
closing itself in its own shell, it is isolating itself. As if
isolation had a future. Furthermore, political asylum is
not a matter of values but a right, a fundamental right.
The outrage at the indignity of the situation of women,
men and children, walking on the roads and dying in
the sea, requires us to reimagine the notion of borders,
an evolving historical construction, a changing object.
Opening up borders is perhaps the “realistic utopia”
of human rights.
Françoise Tulkens
Former Judge and Vice-
President of the European
Court of Human Rights
Françoise Tulkens is Emeritus
Professor of Law at the Catholic
University of Louvain. She was
a Judge on the European Court
of Human Rights between 1998
and 2012 and served as one of the two Vice-Presidents
of the Court in 2011 and 2012. She is a member of the
Human Rights Advisory Panel of the United Nations Mission
in Kosovo and the Vice-Chairperson of the Scientific
Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental
Rights. Tulkens served as the Chair of Board
of Governors of the King Baudouin Foundation between
2011 and 2015 and has been an Associate Member
of the Belgian Royal Academy since 2011. She holds
honorary doctorates from the Universities of Geneva,
Limoges, Ottawa, Ghent, Liège and Brighton. Her work
is particularly focused on criminal law and human rights.
Chair
Sabino Cassese
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
Sabino Cassese is an Emeritus
Justice of the Italian Constitutional
Court and an Emeritus
Professor at Scuola Normale
Superiore of Pisa. He is one
of the Founders and a Fellow
of the Institute for Research in Public Administration
( IRPA ), a non-profit organization that aims to promote
advanced studies and research in the fields of public
law and public administration. Cassese is also Professor
at the LUISS School of Government in Rome. From
1987 to 1991 he was the President of the European
Group for Public Administration. He was a member of
the Italian government from 1993 - 1994 and served on
several ministerial committees. Sabino Cassese is a
member of the Executive Committee and Honorary
President of the International Society of Public Law.
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