New Constitution Study from Bahçeşehir and Harvard

The cooperation between Bahçeşehir University and Harvard University has begun to bear fruit. The two universities are starting work on a "New Constitution."

Bahçeşehir and Harvard Universities will conduct comparative research on legal practices. The first meeting of the Comparative Constitutional Law Workshop, on "Constitutional Justice," will begin on 2 December, moderated by Prof. Mark Tushnet of Harvard Law School. The workshop, which will continue until 4 December, will open its doors at 14:00 at the Faculty of Law on Bahçeşehir University's Beşiktaş Campus.

At the first meeting of the workshop, where the fundamental concepts and mechanisms of classical constitutional law will be discussed, answers will be sought to the question "A New Constitution: Why, and What Kind of Constitution?"

The later meetings of the workshop, held by a university in Türkiye for the first time, will be attended by Prof. Frank Michelman, Prof. Sanford Levinson and Prof. David Barron of Harvard Law School, Prof. Thomas Würtenberger of the University of Freiburg Faculty of Law, Prof. Rainer Arnold of the University of Regensburg, Prof. Dominique Rousseau of the University of Paris 1 Faculty of Law, and Prof. Alexandre Viala of the University of Montpellier 1.