May 2011
Maria Agius visited from Uppsala University and deliver a paper: 'The new global law and the interfacing of legal orders: The constitutional implications of regime collision'.
January- September 2011
Elisenda Casañas Adam visited for one year from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona to undertake a project: ‘Multilevel human rights protection in the UK: the new Supreme Court and the proposals for a Bill of Rights within the complex nature of the State.’
October 2010
Barry Cushman: James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School visited the Centre and offered a Centre seminar.
July, August and November 2010
Mark Walters (mw24@queensu.ca): Professor and Associate Dean in the law faculty at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Professor Walters addressed two main research interests. The first focused upon constitutional law and sub-state national groups, in particular indigenous peoples in former colonies. The second main area of interest embraced legal and constitutional theory, mainly from an historical perspective and in this regard he undertook work on AV Dicey, offering a centre seminar in November on Dicey.
July 2010
Albert Noguera Fernández (albertnoguera@unex.es) is currently Professor of Constitutional Law at University of Extremadura (Spain). His main research interests are the new Latin American constitutionalism, Social Rights and State Theory and Democracy, topics on which he has written several books and articles. He has been adviser to the Constituent Assembly of Bolivia (2006–2009) and Ecuador (2007–2009).
His research work at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law wasbased on an analysis of how, since its origins, constitutional justice has always presented an antimajoritorian character in open contradiction with the ideal and theoretical notion of democracy. Having identified the reasons for this contradiction, the research referred to how, during the last decades, new constitutions have emerged in Latin America resulting from processes of political change, especially the ones in the Andean region of the continent, and how these have incorporated innovative mechanisms of democratisation of society and the state, including democratisation mechanisms that allow constitutional justice begin to overcome the old contradiction noted.
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