02 December 2022
13:30 Welcome/Registration
14:00 Opening Remarks (Joachim von Puttkamer)
14:15–15:45 Panel I: Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Interwar Europe and its Legacy
Chair: Joachim von Puttkamer
- Cosmin Cercel - Fascists Claims to Sovereign Power: From (Counter)Revolution to Constitutional Design in Romania
- António Costa Pinto - The Diffusion of Corporatist Constitutions in the Era of Fascism
- Zachary Mazur - Justifying the Authoritarian State: Constitutional Legitimacy in Interwar Poland
Commentator: Michael Wilkinson
16:15–17:45 Panel II: Authoritarian Positivism and Its Legacies
Chair: Annette Weinke
- Katharina Isabel Schmidt – Reckoning with Radbruch: On Continuities and Ruptures in Modern German Legal History.
- Naum Trajanovski - An Atypical Positivist. Stanisław Ehrlich And His Early Years at Państwo i Prawo
- Sebastian Martin - Legal Thought and Judicial Authoritarianism. A Francoist Legacy in Today’s Spanish State
Commentator: Maciej Kisilowski
18:00–19:30 Key-Note
Christian Joerges - “Darker Legacies of Law in Europe”: The Florence Project Revisited - Accomplishments, Failings, Lessons
03 December 2022
09:00–10:30 Panel III: Institutionalizing Dictatorship
Chair Sophie Lange
- Derk Venema - Supreme Courts Under Nazi Occupation, Greater Goods and Lesser Evils in Dealing with the Enemies of Democracy
- Ivan Sablin - Functions of a State Socialist Parliament: The USSR Supreme Soviet in 1955–1991
- Jakub Szumski – Minimal Legality and the Road to Authoritarian Rechtstaat in Poland (1945–1980)
Commentator: Ned Richardson-Little
11:00–12:30 Panel IV: Post-War Constitutional Visions
Chair: Stefanie Middendorf
- Leila Brännström - The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Social Democratic Constitutional Vision
- Jakob Rendl - Dark or Bright? European Constitutionalism and International Law in the Post-War Period
- Nicolas Sesma-Landrin – An Open Constitution for a Closed Regime. The Legal Newspeak of Francoist Dictatorship
Commentator: Sebastian Gehrig
13:30–15:00 Panel V. Cold War Legacies in Constitutional Law
Chair: Immo Rebitschek
- Mateusz Grochowski – Long Shadows and Short Memories. (Mis)conceiving Market Freedom in the Polish Law (online)
- Michał Stambulski/Wojciech Zomerski - Constitutionalist Orientalism and Cold War Epistemics in Central and Eastern Europe
- Michal Kopeček - Rule of What Law? Legacies of Authoritarian Past and Liberal Constitutional Imagination in Post-Communist East Central Europe
Commentator: Marta Bucholc
15:30–17:00 Panel VI: (Neo-) Liberal Constitutionalism and its Legacies in the Post-Liberal Age
Chair: Florian Peters
- Daniel Smilov - Legacies of Liberal Constitutionalism in Illiberal Constitutional Politics
- Bob Roth - The Transnational Legality of ‘Market Democracy’: - Przemyslaw Tacik - Legacy of Inoperativeness. On Certain Elective Affinities Between Socialist and Illiberal Legalities
Commentator: Renáta Uitz
17:00 Concluding Remarks