Two-Day International Conference CCSDD
February 13, 2013
On Thursday, February 7, and Friday, February 8, the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD) welcomed participants and attendees to a two-day international conference on the Arab Spring. The Conference, "Constitutional Transformations in the Arab World Following the Arab Spring: Comparative Models," brought together academics from the United States, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The Conference built upon the Center's research project, "Transitional Law and the Challenge of the Arab Spring."
The Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University hosted the event, which was "jointly organized by The Protection Project, Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Washington, D.C., U.S., and the Center for Constitutional Studies and Democratic Development (CCSDD), a joint program of the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Bologna Center and the University of Bologna, Italy." According to a short introduction provided by the Bologna Center, "this international event [brought] together a diverse group of international constitutional scholars and policymakers to discuss the institutional actors and factors behind, as well as the substantive provisions of, recent constitutional changes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The program [examined] both the new constitutions recently drafted (such as those in Egypt and Tunisia) as well as the promulgation of substantive amendments to existing constitutions (such as those in Jordan and Morocco), and likewise [provided] comparative perspectives with constitutional trends and realities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies, the Iraqi constitutional drafting experience, as well as with the Turkish model of constitutionalism. Expert participants [included] renowned scholars from countries including Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia, Turkey, as well as from Greece, Italy, and the United States."
The program for the Conference is attached below. A second blog update will feature an interview with Francesco Biagi, one of the Conference's scholars and a research fellow in Comparative Public Law at the University of Bologna.
Constitutional Transformations Program
