The Transnational Societal Constitutionalism Conference will be held May 17-19, 2012, in Torino, Italy. It is hosted by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL), the International University College of Turin (IUC) and the Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Young researchers attending the conference are encouraged to present their own research in this field in form of a poster. im
Over the past few years, a series of political scandals have raised the ‘new constitutional question’. Multinational corporations violated human rights; private intermediaries in the internet threatened freedom of opinion, and recently, with particular impact, the global capital markets unleashed catastrophic risks – all of these pose constitutional problems in the strict sense. It is outside the limits of the nation-state in transnational politics and, at the same time, outside institutionalized politics, in the ‘private’ sectors of global society that these constitutional problems arise.
In the conference, social scientists and lawyers will discuss the question whether Constitutionalism has the potential to counteract the expansionist tendencies of social systems outside the state, particularly the globalized economy, science and technology, and the information media, when they endanger individual or institutional autonomy.
