9.00
Arrival and registration
9.30
Formal Opening Session
Dr. Jorge Sampaio
President of the Portuguese Republic
Dra. Celeste Cardona
Minister of Justice
Dr. Carlos Encarnação
Mayor of the City of Coimbra
10.15
Law and Justice in the XXIst Century
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
(School of Economics of the University of Coimbra)
José Eduardo Faria
(Law School of the University of S. Paulo)
André-Jean Arnaud
(Research Director at CNRS - Paris)
Yash Ghai
(Law School of the University of Hong Kong)
15.00
Judicial Power, Organization and Modernization of Courts
Jacques Commaille
(Research Director at CNRS- Paris; University of Paris II - Pantheon - Assas)
Mauricio Garcia Villegas
(Law School of the National University of Colombia)
João Trindade
(Director of the Legal and Judiciary Training Centre of Mozambique)
17.15
The New Frontiers of Law and Justices
Ascención Cambrón
(Law School of the University of La Coruña)
Heinz Klüg
(Law School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Gilles Martin
(Law School of the University of Nice)
Carlos Gaviria
(Senator of Colombia; former judge of the Constitutional Court)