SELA 2007 - U.P.R.
Organized by
Chancellor Efrén Rivera Ramos:
San Juan, Puerto RicoHotel Condado Plaza
June 12‐15, 2007
LAW AND CULTURE
TUESDAY, JUNE 12
7:00 pm (Laguna Wing – Pool Area)
Welcome Reception
8:00 pm (Royal Room)
Dinner and Opening Lecture “Puerto Rico and Its Place in Latin America”
Arcadio Díaz Quiñonez Director of Center for Latin American Studies, Princeton
University
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
7:30 ‐ 9:00 am (Miramar Room)
Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:00 pm (Royal Room)
Panel 1: The Interplay of Law and Culture: Constitutionalism
‐ Jorge Contesse – Culture, Constitutionalism, and Human Rights
‐ Roberto Saba – Constitutions and Codes: A Difficult Marriage
‐ Reva Siegel and Robert Post ‐ Constitutional Patriotism and Constitutional Culture
Commentator: Marisa Iglesias
12:00 – 2:00 pm (Miramar Room)
Lunch
2
2:00 – 5:00 pm (Royal Room)
Panel 2: The Interplay of Law and Culture: Violence
‐ Paul Kahn ‐ Managing Violence: Acoustic Separation, Memorials, and Scapegoats
‐ Julieta Lemaitre ‐ Legal Fetishism: Law, Violence, and Social Movements in
Colombia‐ Catalina Pérez Correa ‐ Distrust and Disobedience: Discourse and Practice of Law in
México
Commentator: Mario Ramos‐Reyes
7:30 pm
Departure for Dinner (Hotel Lobby)
8:00 pm
Dinner (Centro de Recepciones del Gobierno – Antiguo Casino)
THURSDAY, JUNE 14
7:30 – 9:00 am (Miramar Room)
Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:00 pm (Royal Room)
Panel 3: Hybrid Legal Cultures: Borrowings and Impositions
‐ Ximena Benavides ‐ Competition among Laws
‐ Martin Böhmer ‐ Borrowings and Acquisitions: the Use of Foreign Law as a Strategy to
build Constitutional and Democratic Authority
‐ Mariana Mota Prado – Institutional Reforms, Legal Transplants, and Political Systems
Commentator: Esteban Restrepo
12:00 – 2:00 pm (Miramar Room)
Lunch
3
2:00 – 5:00 pm (Royal Room)
Panel 4: Legal Formalism
‐ Marcelo Ferrante ‐ Community Views and Criminal Law Reform
‐ Marcio Grandchamp ‐ Empirical Defenses of Formalism
‐ Paulo Mattos and Caio Pereira ‐ Legal Research Crisis in Brazil: Traps and Alternatives
to Legal Formalism
Commentator: Roberto Lara
6:30 pm (Hotel Lobby)
Departure for the University of Puerto Rico Law School
7:30 pm (University of Puerto Rico Law School)
Democracy Roundtable “Puerto Rico and Its Constitutional Relationship with the
Unites States”
1. Maurice Ferre, former Mayor of Miami and currently a fellow at
Princeton University.
2. Fernando Martín, Executive President of the Puerto Rican Independence
Party, a former Senator of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
3. José Roberto Martínez, Executive Director of the Luis Muñoz Marín
Foundation.
9:00 pm (Ríos Piedras – University of Puerto Rico)
Dinner at the Chancellor’s Residence
FRIDAY, JUNE 15
7:30 – 9:00 am (Miramar Room)
Breakfast
9:00 am – 12:00 pm (Royal Room)
Panel 5: Legal Pluralism
‐ Ximena Fuentes ‐ International Law and Domestic Law:
Definitely an Odd Couple
‐ Roberto Gargarella ‐ Grafts and Rejections: Political Radicalism and
Constitutional Transplants in the Americas
‐ Neus Torbisco ‐ Beyond Unity and Coherence: The Challenge of Multicultural
Jurisdictions in Postnational Legal Orders
Commentator: José Julián Alvarez‐González
12:30 pm (Hotel Lobby)
Departure for Farewell Lunch
1:00 – 3 pm
Farewell Luncheon
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