Call for papers: Constitutional Identity and Social Memories in Central and Estern Europe (Timișoara, maj 2018 r.)

W dniach 3-4 maja 2018 r. w Timișoara (Rumunia) odbędzie się konferencja pt. "Constitutional Identity and Social Memories in Central and Estern Europe". 

Organizatorzy są zainteresowani propozycjami wystąpień dotyczącymi zwłaszcza następujących zagadnień:

• the relationship between constitutional identity and specific political institutions;
• the political dimension of constitutional identity;
• the notion of the constitutional “people”;
• social mechanisms of selection of memories;
• legal regulations of collective memories;
• collective memories in constitutional adjudication;
• social frames of collective memories;
• conflicts between collective memories;
• constitution and religion in Central and Eastern Europe;
• the impact of World War II and the communist period on constitutional and national identities;
• the role of national identity in nationality laws (for instance, the cases of Latvia and Estonia, where Russian residents did not become automatically nationals of the new republics);
• trends in the role of national identity in CEE constitutional laws;
• the question of a regional, supranational CEE identity (as opposed to Western and Eastern Europe);
• the concept of national unity in the constitutional order;
• the contribution of non-judicial actors in shaping constitutional identity;
• the place of comparative constitutional law in the legal scholarship of CEE countries;
• constitutional transplants;
• the place of law and literature scholarship dealing with the question of social memory in the legal research of CEE countries;
• economic doctrines inscribed in the constitutional texts of CEE countries

Zgłoszenia (abstrakt 300-500 słów) można przesyłać do 15 stycznia 2018 r. za pomocą strony internetowej.

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