Conference Program

 

Thursday, July 28

 

4:00 PM                      Joint Event with the Closing Session of the

International Institute of Human Rights

                                    Faculty of Law

1, Place d’Athènes

6700 Strasbourg, France

 

“International Protection of Women’s Rights:  The Islamic Headscarf Controversy”

 

Alain Garay:                 Islam and the European “ordre public,” as seen by the European Court of Human Rights

 

Jeremy Gunn:               The Sahin Chamber Decision:  A

                                                                        Backward Step?  (La decision Sahin:  Un

pas en arrière?)

 

7:30 PM                      Dinner at a location to be determined.

 

 

 

Friday, July 29          

 

9:30-11:00 AM           Meetings at the Library of the

International Institute of Human Rights

2, Allée René Cassin

67000 Strasbourg, France

 

Chair:                           Javier Martinez-Torron

 

Ingvill T. Plesner:          The European Court on Human Rights

                                                                        Between Secular Fundamentalism and

                                                                        Liberal Secularism?

 

Murat R. Özsunay:        A Comparison of Turkish Constitutional Court and European Court Opinions

 

                                                Amal Idrissi:                 Le Port du Voile:  Raisons des Femmes

                                                                        et Perspective d’une Juriste Musulmane

 

 

11:00-11:30 AM          Break

 

11:30 AM-1:00 PM     Chair:                           Ingvill T. Plesner

 

Julian Rivers:                 Religious Dress:  British Perspectives and OSCE Developments

 

Tore Lindholm:             Strasbourg and the Human Right to

Freedom of Religion or Belief:  A Critical Assessment

 

1:00-2:30 PM              Lunch at a location to be determined.

 

2:30-5:00 PM              Chair:                           Julian Rivers

 

Javier Martinez-            European Conceptions of Democracy

Torron:                         and the Challenge of Dealing with Islam

 

W. Cole Durham, Jr.    Europe, Islam and the Question of Public

and Gary Doxey:          Order

 

                                    Jeremy Gunn:                Additional Remarks

 

7:00 PM                       Dinner at a location to be determined.

 

Saturday, July 30      

 

10:00 AM-Noon         Discussion of plans for further development of the conference project.

                                    Hotel Hannong

                                    15, rue du 22 Novembre

                                    67000 Strasbourg

                                    France