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Roundtable Program: Constitutionalism in the Age of Global Ecological Challenges

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5-6 June 2026

The Istanbul Bar Association and the Ankara University Faculty of Law
 Istanbul, Türkiye

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Conference subject-matter

Global ecological challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, transboundary pollution, and freshwater depletion, ecosystem collapse, and widespread environmental degradation, are reshaping the political and legal landscape of our time. These interconnected ecological issues operate as structural forces that transform societies, strain public institutions, and challenge the foundational normative and institutional principles on which constitutional democracies rely.

Venue: Atty. Orhan Apaydın Conference Hall
Address: Istanbul Bar Association
İs. İstiklal Caddesi No. 163, Beyoğlu

Program

5 June 2026

10:00-10:30 Opening Speeches

  • President of the Istanbul Bar Association
  • President of the IACL
  • President of the CIDCE
  • President of the Anayasa-Der

10:30-11:00 Keynote Speech –

  • İbrahim Ö. Kaboğlu (Presidentof the IstanbulBar Association, Türkiye)
    “Constitutionalism between Ecology and Authoritarianism: Tensions and Transformations”

11:00-12.50 Panel 1-Global Perspective on Ecological Constitutionalism

Chair:

  • Michel Prieur (President of the CIDCE)
    "Gaps in Environmental Constitutional Provisions”
  • Pasquale Policastro (University of Szczecin, Poland)
    “Constitutionalism as Symbiosis: Reconstructing the Rule of Law within the Biosphere”
  • Francesco Lucherini (University of Bologna, Italy)
    “Writing Circularity in Constitutional Political Economy”
  • Ian Lee (University of Toronto, Canada)
    “The positive/negative rights distinction and climate litigation under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”

12:50-14:00 Lunch Break

5 June 2026

14:00-16.00 Panel 2-Courtson theFrontline: Litigating Climate and Protecting Rights

Chair:

  • Chung Thi Kim Nguyen (FPT University, Vietnam)
    “Environmental Ruleof Law without a Constitutional Court: Oversight, Administrative Justice, and the Bar in Vietnam”
  • Konrad Lachmayer(Sigmund Freud University, Vienna)
    “Effective Legal Protection for ? Three Phasesof Eco-Constitutional Adjudication”
  • Vicente Ugalde (El Colegiode Mexico, Mexico)
    “The Consolidation of the Right to healthy environmen tin the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Mexico”
  • Dian Agung Wicaksono(University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) and Wibisena Caesario (University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia)
    “Struggle For Eco-Constitutionalism Continues: Extended Legal Protection for Environmental Activist by the Indonesia’s Constitutional Court”
  • James May (WashburnUniversity, USA)
    “What does data reveal about whether constitutional recognition of a right to a healthy environment improves environmental outcomes?”

16:00-16.15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:00 Panel 3-Climate Justice in Motion:  Migration, Displacement, and Responsibility

Chair:

  • Serkan Köybaşı (Bahçeşehir University, Türkiye)
    “The Global North’s Duty of a Regulated Open-door Policy Regarding Climate Migrants from the Global South”
  • LinusO. Nwauzi (Rivers State University, Nigeria)
    “Ecological Displacement, Migration And Constitutional Protections”

6 June 2026

9:30-11:00 Panel 4-Beyond Borders: Global Climate Governence and Legal Obligations

Chair:

  • Didac Amat (University of Barcelona, Spain)
    “The Paris Agreement’s temperature goal:  an obligatio nof due diligence to protect the 1.5ºC threshold”
  • Erin Daly (Delaware Law School, USA)
    “The role of international humanrights law in safeguarding the environment”
  • George Katrougalos (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
    “Global Ecological Risks, Constitutional Limits and the Crisis of Multilateralism”

11:00-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-12:30 Panel 5-Constitutional Law and Environment: Emerging Perspectives from Junior Scholars

Chair:

  • Francesca Galimi (University of Messina, Italy)
    “Constitutional Governance of Italy’s Ecological Transition: Territory, Separation of Powers, and Judicial Review”
  • Flaviana Cerquozzi (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
    “From Sustainability to Sustainable Resilience: The European Green Deal, Energy Security, Eastern Enlargement and the Reconfiguration of Parliamentary Responsibility”
  • Elisa Maffassiolli Hartwig (Unisinos, Brazil/ Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
    “Climate Constitutionalism as a Safeguard Against Climate Disinformation”
  • Ece Elif Kuruoğlu (Altınbaş University, Türkiye)
    “The Principle of the environmental rule of law in the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Türkiye”
  • Priya Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
    “Ecological Constitutionalism and the Reconfiguration of Legality: Critical Insights from the Indian Jurisprudence”

6 June 2026

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Panel 6- Environmental Justice and Defence

Chair:

  • İbrahim Gündüz (Journalist –Writer)
    “An Analytical Perspective on Ecocide Practices Intensifying the Violence of Neoliberalismin Light of the İliç – Çöpler Disaster”
  • Atahan Yılmazer (Attorney – Istanbul Bar Association)
    “The Changing Concept of Public Interest in the Context of Environmental and Urban Rights”
  • Eren Can (Attorney – Istanbul Bar Association)
    “Earthquake Criminal Cases and Impunity”
  • Seher Eriş (Attorney – Istanbul Bar Association)
    “Earthquake Cases in the Context of Constitutional Rights”

15:30 Concluding remarks

  •  Selin Esen (IACL)
  • Michel Prieur (CIDCE)
  • Ibrahim Kaboğlu (Istanbul Bar Association)
  • Didem Yılmaz (Anayasa-Der)