Events
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Comparative Law Discussion with Distinguished Guest
Christophe Soulard, First President of the French Cour de cassation
Moderator: Yvonne Tew
November 5, 2025
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Center for Transnational Legal Studies
Invited Speaker
Book Launch
“The Entrenchment of Democracy: The Comparative Constitutional Design of Elections, Parties and Voting”
March 19, 2025
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Center for Transnational Legal Studies
CTLS Global Conference 2024
“Constitutionalism in Times of Crisis: Transnational Perspectives on Challenges & Ways Forward”
Co-Organizers: Yvonne Tew & Yuval Shany
May 9, 2024
Keynote Panel & CTLS Alumni Event: A Dialogue Between Constitutional Judges: Judging in Times of Crisis
Moderators: Yvonne Tew (Georgetown) and Yuval Shany (HUJI)
Keynote Speakers:
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond (Former President, U.K. Supreme Court)
Kate O’Regan (Professor of Human Rights Law & Director, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford; Former Judge, Constitutional Court of South Africa)
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Vienna Lecture in Comparative Constitutional Law & Theory
Invited Speaker
Collaboration between Sigmund Freud University, University of Vienna, Central European University, & Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
“How Courts Self-Empower: Strategic Judicial Empowerment in Comparative Perspective”
March 12, 2024
“When courts seek to strengthen their own institutional power, they often need to be strategic. In many fraught political contexts, judiciaries lack a history of asserting authority against powerful political actors. How can courts with fragile authority establish and enhance judicial power? Yvonne Tew discusses the phenomenon of strategic judicial empowerment, exploring how and when courts around the world employ particular strategies aimed at enhancing their institutional position vis-à-vis other branches of government. Drawing on examples from apex courts in Pakistan, Malawi, Malaysia, and the United Kingdom, she discusses the ways in which judges use tools of statecraft to enhance the court’s role in the constitutional order.”
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University of Cambridge (McGrath Centre, St. Catharine’s College)
Invited Speaker
“How Courts Self-Empower: Constitutional Statecraft and Judicial Strategy”
February 20, 2024
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Durham Law School
Invited Speaker
“How Judges (Self) Empower: Strategies of Judicial Empowerment”
February 6, 2024
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Harvard Law School
Invited Speaker
Comparative Law Workshop
“Strategic Judicial Empowerment”
Workshop Co-Convenors: Professors William P. Alford, Intisar A. Rabb, Idriss Fofana
November 20, 2023
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Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Conference
Strategic Judicial Empowerment, Yvonne Tew
December 6, 2023
Discussants:
Manon Altwegg-Boussac (Université Paris Est Créteil)
Eleonora Bottini (Unicaen/ISJPS)
Julien Jeanneney (Université de Strasbourg)
Marie Gren (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Eugénie Merieau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Raphael Paour (Université Paris Saclay)