A three-day conference on Andrew Arato’s work on constitution-making as a learning process will be held on May 27 through May 29 at the University of Glasgow, hosted by the University of Glasgow School of Law and the Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values of the University of Antwerp. Dr Arato is the Dorothy Hart Hirshon Professor of Political and Social Theory at The New School for Social Research.

The discussion will focus on Arato's study of South Africa and various other countries that inaugurated the two phased constitution-making process, which he regards as the most important legal innovations of the recent past.

Participates at the conference include: Henk Botha, University of Stellenbosch; Halton Cheadle, University of Cape Town; Emilios Christodoulidis, University of Glasgow; Judge Dennis Davis, Cape High Court, Cape Town; Lourens du Plessis, University of Stellenbosch; Peter Fitzpatrick, Birkbeck Law School; Hans Lindahl, University of Tilburg; Martin Loughlin, London School of Economics; Frank Michelman, Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA; Christina Murray, University of Cape Town; Ulrich Preuss, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin; Chris Thornhill, University of Glasgow; Johan van der Walt, University of Glasgow; Scott Veitch, University of Glasgow; Francois Venter, University of the North West, Potchefstroom; Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh; and Andrew Arato, The New School for Social Research.