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Dr. Jörg Menzel is Professor of Law at the University of Bonn and currently Senior Legal Adviser to the Cambodian Senate (CIM).

Program:

Constitutionalism in Southeast Asia

Cooperation between the Senate of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

April 2, 2008

Senate

8.00 a.m.Registration

8.30 a.m.Opening Ceremony

Welcome Remarks

Wolfgang Meyer, Country Representative, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Welcome remarks

H. E. Frank M. Mann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Cambodia (tbc)

8.40 a.m.Keynote address and official opening

H. E. Samdech Akka Maha Thommak Pothisal Chea Sim

9.00 a.m.Presentation of Vol. I and II of the books on “ASEAN Constitutionalism”, published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Wolfgang Meyer, Country Representative, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

9.10 a.m.Modern Constitutionalism between Regional and Global Values

Dr. Thilo Rensmann LL.M., Law Professor at the Universities of Bonn and Munich, Germany

9.45 a.m. Q & A, Open debate

10.20 a.m.Coffee break

10.50 a.m.The Cambodian Constitution of 1993 – its history and major lines of debate during the drafting period 1990 -1993

Dr. Hor Peng, Professor of Constitutional Law, Royal University of Law and Economic Science (RULE)

11.25 a.m.Q & A, Open debate

12.00 noonLunch break

2.00 p.m.Historical development and current status of ASEAN constitutions

Dr. Jörg Menzel, Senior Legal Advisor to the Senate (CIM)

3.00 p.m.Q & A, Open Debate

3.30 pm Closing remarks

H. E. Ouk Boun Choeun, Chairman of the 6th Commission, Senate

4.00 p.m.Refreshments