New York Law School to Host Conference on Postconflict Constitutionalism

MEDIA ADVISORY

 

DATE: Friday, March 3, 2006
DESCRIPTION:

New York Law School is hosting "A Conference on Perspectives on Postconflict Constitutionalism." This all-day event will examine the constitution-making processes in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the theoretical implications of postconflict constitutionalism.

Speakers include:

  • Professor Michel Rosenfeld

    President, U.S. Association of Constitutional Law; Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Security, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
     
  • Professor Ruti Teitel

    Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School; Chair, Comparative Law and Politics Workshop
     
  • Barnett Rubin

    Director of Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for International Conflict, New York University
     
  • His Excellency Dr. Feisal al-Istrabadi

    Deputy Permanent Representative, Mission of Iraq to the United Nations

To view the conference brochure, click here or copy this link into your browser: /user_files/1/3/4/97/Postconflict_Constitutionalism_Brochure.pdf
TIME: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
CONTACT:  Edith Sachs, New York Law School, 212.431.2187 or esachs@nyls.edu
PRESENTED BY: U.S. Association of Constitutional Law, together with New York Law School’s Comparative Law and Politics Workshop and the New York Law School Law Review
ADDRESS/LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center, New York Law School, 47 Worth Street, New York, N.Y. 10013  (between Church Street and West Broadway)
DIRECTIONS: Via Subway: 1 to Franklin Street; 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street.

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