Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 12:30pm to Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium

CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE

presents

Bernhard Schlink
Professor of Public Law & Legal Philosophy
Humboldt University, Berlin

The Principle of Proportionality - Success and Limits


Tuesday, January 27, 2009
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2) - Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

The presentation will first show the success of the principle of proportionality in law, particularly in constitutional law, and then its limits:  It tends to relativize what we are not willing to accept as being relative.

Bernhard Schlink is professor of public law and legal philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin.  He was justice of the Constitutional Law Court of the state of Northrhine-Westfalia in Muenster, has taught in Freiburg, Bonn, and Frankfurt, and teaches regularly at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.  Among his English publications are "Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis", 2000, and "Guilt about the Past", 2008.  He also writes fiction.

 
A light lunch will be served.


For more workshop information, please contact Professor Lorraine Weinrib at l.weinrib@utoronto.ca or Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca