Lifelong learning (LLL)

Program

Wednesday 1st November

09:30 – 11:00           Welcomes – Seminar opening – background and context for the cases in israel

11: 00 – 13:00          Presentations of case responses – first set of countries

13:00  – 14:00          Lunch on site

14:00 – 17:00           Field tour in the Haifa bay rural Regional Council (north of Haifa) with local hosts, regarding Massive urban expansion

                            projects on farmland. Minibus and site visits

17:00                     Evening tour cont. – visit to a kibbutz in that region. Discussion of kibbutz property rights (and lack of them).

                            Dinner hosted by the kibbutz. return to Technion campus hotel

Thursday 2nd November

09:00 – 11:00           Presentations of case responses – second set of countries

11:00 – 13:00           Presentations of case responses – third set of countires

13:00 – 14:00           Lunch on site

14:00 – 17:00           Presentation of case responses – Fourth set of countries

17:00 – 18:00           Joint conclusions

18:00                     Special evenning program and dinner – planning-law tour of Druze village-town, and traditional dinner at a traditional

                            home (self payment).

Friday 3rd November

09:00 – 09:30          Check out of hotels, ready to leave Technion by 09:30 (those not staying at Technion – perhaps can meet on the way).

09:30                     Leave Haifa for second field visit, along the coast south of Haida to Tel Aviv, with visits to selected sites

Saturday 4th November

TBD Optional: Saturday morning or soon – tour of Tel Aviv “White city” UNESCO historic preservation area, explanied from a planning-law perspective by Dr.Nir Mualam

International Participants 

Janet Askew – Practicing Planner; Former President, Royal Town Planning Institute, UK

Dr. Anna Fogel Senior – Lawyer at her own firm; Head Legal Counsel in Spatial Planning and Land Use Law,  Warsaw Municipality, Poland

Dr. Miroslaw Gdesz – Member of the Polish Supreme Court

Jacco Karens – Lawyer and Researcher, IBR (Institute of Building Law),  Netherlands. Coordiantor, the International Expert Platform

Dr. Marta Lora Tamayo – Professor of Law, National University of Distance Education,  Spain

Juliane Lueke –  Doctoral student specialising in planning regulation, Faculty of Planning and Building, Technical University Berlin,  Germany

Dr. Josep Maria Aguirre – Professor of Law, University of Girona, Spain

Camille Mialot – Faculty member (Maître de Conférence) at l’Ecole de Droit de Sciencespo, Paris Practicing Lawyer, Mialot Avocats, France; Specialist in Public Law

Pablo Molina Alegre – Practicing Lawyer, Garrigues Law Firm, Barcelona, Spain; Former Head of Spanish Planners’ Association

Dr Claudio Ramos –  Member of the Portuguese Constitutional Court; Monteiro Professor of Law, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Hendrik van Sandick – Practicing Lawyer, CITY, Netherlands;  Formerly with the Dutch Planning Ministry

Dr. Xinrui Shi – Lawyer (trained in USA); Senior Researcher at Peking  University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, Beijing, China

Ed Sullivan – Lawyer, Expert in Land Use Law; Adjunct Professor of Planning Law, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, USA

Dr. Helle  Tegner Anker – Professor of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark