Central European University cordially invites you to a panel discussion

in honor of • Gerhard Casper Professor Emeritus,

"Constitutionalism Revisited — Insights from CEU at 20"

Date: Friday, April 27, 2012 Time: 11:00 a.m. Venue: Room 001 (CEU, Nador u. 13)

Welcome remarks: John Shattuck, President and Rector, Professor of Law Chair: Renata Uitz, Professor, Department of Legal Studies

Panelists: Janos Kis, CEU University Professor Michael Hamilton, Associate Professor, Department of Legal Studies Daniel Smilov, Visiting Professor, Department of Legal Studies Gedion Timothewos Hessebon, SJD Candidate, Department of Legal Studies

Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University. He is also the Peter and Helen Bing Professor, Emeritus, and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. Gerhard Casper studied law at the universities of Freiburg, , and , then returned to Freiburg, where he earned his PhD in 1964. After an initial teaching position at the University of California at Berkeley, he was recruited two years later by the , where he spent 26 years, served as dean of the law school, and, in 1989, became provost, a post he held until he accepted the presidency of Stanford University in 1992. Casper has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence. He was a member of the Council of the American Law Institute from 1980-2010. From 2000-2008, he served as a successor trustee of Yale University, from 2000-2012, as a trustee of Central European University in Budapest and, from 2000-2009, as a trustee of the American Academy in Berlin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Order Pour le Mérite for the Sciences and Arts. He currently serves as the chairman of the Board of the Terra Foundation for American Art. He is a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Israel Democracy Institute.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, April 25 to [email protected] •

C e n t r a l E u r o p e a n U n i v e r s i t y • B u d a p e s t V, N a d o r u . 9