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
