The 2017-2018 Catalan constitutional crisis: Is Spain doomed?

The Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism welcomes Catalan constitutional scholars Josep Maria Castella Andreu and Nuria Gonzalez Campana for a timely discussion of the constitutional crisis in Spain. 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 Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona. He teaches Spanish Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, and Constitutional Comparative Law. His research focuses on democracy; participatory rights; Spanish decentralization; and comparative federalism and regionalism.

Nuria Gonzalez Campana is a DPhil in EU law Candidate at Oxford University, and works as a part-time 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 johanne.poirier3 [at] mcgill.ca.