2Nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on REPRESSION DURING the FRANCO DICTATORSHIP and LEGAL REVIEW of DICTATORSHIPS

2nd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON REPRESSION DURING THE FRANCO DICTATORSHIP AND LEGAL REVIEW OF DICTATORSHIPS

Organisation Democratic Memorial. The Government of Catalonia Catalan Association of Democratic Jurists (ACJD)

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

7.00 p.m. Official Opening of the 2nd International Conference

Speakers The Hon. José Montilla Aguilera, President of the Government of Catalonia The Hon. Joan Saura i Laporta, Minister of Home Affairs, Institutional Relations and Participation Ms. Purificación Morandeira Carreira, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice Dr. Miquel Caminal i Badia, Director of Democratic Memorial, Government of Catalonia. The Hon. José María Mena, President of the Catalan Association of Democratic Jurists

Inaugural conference Ms. Estela B. de Carlotto, President of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo) The Hon. Juan Guzmán Tapia, Judge and Vice‐President of the American Association of Jurists (Chile)

Thursday, 10 June 2010

TRANSITIONS OF DICTATORSHIPS IN DEMOCRACY

9.30 a.m.

Moderator The Hon. José Antonio Martín Pallín, Magistrate of the Supreme Court and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists

Germany: the double transition after National Socialism and the fall of the wall The Hon. Dr. Kai Ambos, Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and International Criminal Law at Göttingen University and a judge at the State Court in Göttingen

Italy: the transition from fascism to the Republic Dr. Pietro Barcellona, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Catania (Sicily), and former member of the High Council for the Judiciary

Coffee break

Argentina: the judgement of the dictatorship Dr. Eduardo Luis Duhalde, Human Rights Secretary, Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights of Argentina.

Debate

4.00 p.m.

Moderator Mr. Antoni Traveria, journalist and Director of Casa Amèrica Catalunya.

International criminal law and the "interior" justice of the states Dr. Carlos Castresana, Public Prosecutor and Commissioner of the United Nations International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG ‐ Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala)

International criminal law and the "interior" justice of the states: Spain and Latin America Dr. Joan Garcés, barrister for the prosecution before the National Court in the Pinochet case and the case of the crimes of the Franco period.

Legal application of international criminal law. Challenges, problems and perspectives The Hon. José Ricardo de Prada, Judge of the National Court of Spain.

Debate

Coffee break

6.30 p.m.

Screening of the documentary Topography of Memory (Topografía de la Memoria) Presentation and debate Ms. M. Dolors Genovès, journalist and director of the documentary Mr. Pere Portabella, director Ms. Magda Oranich, barrister

Friday, 11 June 2010

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE REPRESSION OF THE FRANCO PERIOD

9.00 a.m.

Moderator Dr. Borja de Riquer, Professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Repression and the personal responsibility of Franco and his collaborators Dr. Paul Preston, historian and Professor of Spanish Contemporary History

Coffee break

Repression during the Franco period (1936‐1975) Dr. Pelai Pagès, Professor of Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

War councils of the Franco period: change or historical continuity? Dr. Manel Risques, Tenured Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Barcelona Debate

Courts with political responsibilities in Andalusia (1939‐1945) Dr. Fernando Martínez López, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Almería.

Debate

12.30 p.m.

Moderator Dr. J. A. González Casanova, Professor of Constitutional Law

Judicial power in dictatorship and in democracy Dr. Francisco José Bastida Freijedo, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Oviedo

Pardons, amnesty and the crimes of the Franco period Dr. Alicia Gil Gil, Tenured Professor of Criminal Law at the National University of Distance Education

Debate

4.00 p.m.

Moderator Dr. Marc Carrillo, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Pompeu Fabra University and member of the Council of Statutory Guarantees

War Councils in the Franco period Mr. Carlos Jiménez Villarejo, former Spanish Chief Public Prosecutor for the Barcelona Regional Court, former special Anti‐Corruption Public Prosecutor.

Police testimony and the special military judge Eymar (1940‐1964) The Hon. Juan José del Aguila, judge of the Spanish National Court.

The Franco dictatorship: permanent exempt status? Dr. Alfons Aragoneses, researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra

Coffee break

6.00 p.m.

Panel discussion: annulment of the legal judgements of the Franco regime, possibilities and perspectives

Moderator Ms. Teresa Compte, State's Attorney for Catalonia

Dr. Josep Maria Pijuan Canadell, President of Section 10 (Criminal) of the Barcelona Regional Court Dr. Francisco Muñoz Conde, Professor of Criminal Law at the Pablo de Olavide University in Seville The Hon. Clara Bayarri García, Magistrate of the National Court of Spain Mr. Josep Cruanyes, President of the Catalan Society of Judicial Studies

8.00 p.m.

Conference Closing Ceremony

The Hon. Montserrat Tura, Minister of Justice of the Government of Catalonia The Hon. Teresa Compte, State's Attorney for Catalonia The Hon. José María Mena, President of the Catalan Association of Democratic Jurists Dr. Miquel Caminal i Badia, Director of Democratic Memorial.