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November 21, 2011

The Ninth Annual Lecture in Memory of Samuel Neaman

The lecture will be given by Prof. Haim Harari about: From Basic Research to Economic Power – Remarkable Journey and Fascinating Adventure

For more information and time tables for the event (in Hebrew), click here.

To view the lecture (in Hebrew), click here.

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