754 Schermerhorn Ext.
Bernard E. Harcourt
Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco
Anna Krauthamer, CCCCT
Daniele Lorenzini, CCCCT
Eileen Gillooly, Heyman Center
Loren Wolfe, Columbia Global Center-Paris
Sarah Monks, ICLS
Shanny Peer, Maison Française
Charleyne Biondi, CCCCT
Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University
Columbia Global Center-Paris
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
The Maison Française
An Uprising 13/13 Extra Seminar with Eleonora Bottini, Sorbonne Law School.
The state of emergency was implemented in France in November 2015 after the terrorists’ attacks in Paris and is still activated at this time. Two years after, it draws inevitably lawyers’ attention to the continuing restrictions to human rights and derogations to the separation of powers inherent to emergency laws. Based on the assumption that constitutional states cannot deal effectively with emergencies, special provisions on emergency powers are inserted in constitutions and legislations in many democracies around the world. Those provisions are supposed to be both temporary and conservative, but those conditions are not always respected. We will discuss states of exception in various European states such as France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Spain, as well as the role of the European Court of Human Rights in controlling those emergency legislations. The comparison aims to compare and classify those legislations using criteria such as the legal framework (legislative or constitutional) of the emergency powers, the constitutional safeguards for the protection some fundamental rights and the role of constitutions in dealing with emergency laws especially when they last for a considerable amount of time.
To RSVP to this and any other Uprising seminar, and for any questions, email Anna Krauthamer at ak4035@columbia.edu. We look forward to seeing you this year as we explore these questions together.
Check out the Uprising 13/13 site for the latest information on the schedule of events.
