The 2017-2018 Catalan constitutional crisis: Is Spain doomed?
The Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism welcomes Catalan constitutional scholars聽Josep Maria Castella Andreu 补苍诲听Nuria Gonzalez Campana聽for a timely discussion of the constitutional crisis in Spain.聽They will focus on the developments over the last two years, and are likely to address the impact of the 1998 Secession Reference of the Supreme Court of Canada on Spanish scholars and judges.
The speakers
Josep Maria Castella Andreu is an聽Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona. He teaches聽Spanish Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, and Constitutional Comparative Law. His research focuses on聽democracy; participatory rights; Spanish decentralization; 补苍诲听comparative federalism and regionalism.
Nuria Gonzalez Campana is聽a DPhil in EU law Candidate at Oxford University, and works as a part-time聽EU Law Lecturer at the ESADE Business and Law School, in Barcelona, Spain, and as an associate lawyer for the Garrigues law firm in Madrid.
A light lunch will be served at 12h15. Kindly RSVP to聽johanne.poirier3 [at] mcgill.ca.
