08.30-09.00

Registration

09.00-9.30

Opening

Roberto Gargarella

Andreas Føllesdal, University of Oslo

9.30 – 10.00

Reform processes and remaining challenges:
ECtHR  Geir Ulfstein

ACtPHR Frans Viljoen

10.00-11.30

Session 1: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Chair: Cecilia Bailliet (TBC)

The Democratic Legitimacy to review democratic national legislation

Natalia Torres

Commentator: Andreas Follesdal

Coupling mechanisms in the Inter-American system of Human Rights:

Paola Acosta

Commentator: Basak Cali (TBC)

Judicial Dissent and Compliance with Judgments

Daniel Naurin and Øyvind Stiansen

Questions from the audience

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:00

Session 2: Comparative lessons

Applying the Margin of Appreciation

Andreas Føllesdal

Commentator: Paolo Carozza

Rejection of Requests for Advisory Opinions as an example of Strategic Prudence by the IACtHR

Cecilia Bailliet

Questions from the audience

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Session 3: The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights Panel

Chair: NN

Steering a course between State Sovereignty and the Court’s Autonomy

Frans Viljoen

Balancing Deference and Human Rights

Theresa Squatrito

Commentator:

Geir Ulfstein

Questions from the audience

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-17:00

Rapporteur/Comments :

Comments from judges/experts from Buenos Aires focusing on the IACtHR, identified by Roberto (TBD)

General discussion

10.00-11.30

Session 3: Comparative Lessons continued

Criminalizing Speech

Dinah Shelton

Judicial Dialogue - Orders to reform legislation and to release prisoners

Leiry Cornejo Chavez

The Concept of Faith – Good or Bad – in the ECtHR

Basak Cali

Commentator: Dinah Shelton

Questions from the audience

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:00

Conclusions

Alexandra Huneeus (TBC)

Dinah Shelton (TBC)

Roberto Gargarella (TBC)

Open discussion

Conclusion : Geir Ulfstein , Andreas Føllesdal

13:00-14:00

Lunch