9.30 to 10.00 Opening: L. Borot, G. Canivet, and Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

10.00 to 13.00 Adapting Old Ideas. The Nation-State, Sovereignty and its Accessories

Chair: G. Canivet

10.00 to 11.00 Session 1: Sovereignty and the Constitution

P. Brunet, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre-La-Défense, UFR Droit et Science Politique, Centre de Théorie du droit

V. Bogdanor, Brasenose College, Oxford University

11.00 to 11.30 Session 2: Topical Issues

V. Rangarajan, United Kingdom Ministry of Justice 

P. Richard, MC USTV, Faculté de droit

12.00 to 13.00 Session 3: The Question of the Central State and its Peripheries (form of state, unitary, decentralization, devolution, Jacobinism)

A. O'Neill, QC (Scotland)

W. Roddick, QC (Wales)

F. Rueda, Université de Toulouse 1, Pôle Midi-Pyrénées de l'Observatoire National de la Décentralisation (France)

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14.00 to 17.00 Considering New Demands. Citizens, Rights and the Future

Chair : Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers

14.00 to 14.50 Session 1: A Republic, No Monarch; a Democracy, One Monarch: (the Question of the Heads of States)

D. Oliver, Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, UCL

D. Marrani, School of Law, University of Essex

14.50 to 15.30 Session 2: Modifications/Revisions of the Constitution (frequency, substantial issues)

P. Richard, MC USTV, Faculté de droit

P. Leyland, London Metropolitan, Department of Law, Governance and International Relations

16.00 to 17.00 Session 3: Accountability, Control and Transparency Rule of Law, Human Rights and Etat de droit

J. Packer, University of Essex, Human Rights Centre

J. Arlettaz, MC UNSA, Faculté de droit et de Sciences Economiques

S. Aubry, IEP Aix/University of Essex

17.10 to 17.30 Conclusion