23/01/2009 - 24/01/2009
Cape Town - In co-operation with the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the Venice Commission organised the first World Conference on Constitutional Justice on the topic “Influential Constitutional Justice - its influence on society and on developing a global human rights jurisprudence”. This major event brought together the constitutional courts and equivalent bodies of the various regional groups the Commission co-operates with (Conference of European Constitutional Courts, the Ibero-American Conference of Constitutional Justice, the Association of the Constitutional Courts and Councils using the French Language (ACCPUF), the Conference of Constitutional Courts of Countries of Young Democracy, the Union of Arab Constitutional Courts and Councils, the Southern African Judges Commission and the network of Asian Constitutional Courts Judges as well as Commonwealth courts.