Day 1: Thursday, July 14th, 2022
8:15 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. Coffee and Light Breakfast
Location: Allard Hall, Hong Kong Lounge (Main Floor)
8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Welcome Remarks and Introduction to the Conference
Location: Allard Hall Room 121
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Virtual Parallel Sessions
(A) Scale and Mobility in Urban Law (Virtual Panel)
Location: Allard Hall Room 121
Zoom: https://fordham.zoom.us/j/82671545046
Moderator: Nestor Davidson
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1. Isolde de Villiers – Cities, law, and transport: shifting scale to Bloemfontein (virtual from Bloemfontein, South Africa at 6:00 pm South Africa Standard Time)
2. Prashant Narang – Protecting Livelihoods of Urban Street Vendors: A Case Study of Mumbai (virtual from New Delhi - 9:30 pm India Standard Time)
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(B) Exclusion and Belonging in the City (Virtual Panel)
Location: Allard Hall Room 123
Zoom: https://fordham.zoom.us/j/87566129794
Moderator: Papon Dev
1. Yifat Holzman-Gazit – Permit Files: Studying the Back Stage of Regularization of Accessory Dwelling Units in Israel (virtual from Jerusalem, Israel at 7:00 p.m. Israel Standard Time)
2. Ronit Levine-Schnur – The Colonial Subject’s Dilemma: Land Settlement of Title in East Jerusalem and the Conflict Over Sheikh Jarrah (virtual from Jerusalem, Israel at 7 pm Israel time)
3. Ivan Mugabi – Urbanisation as a Ugandan Exclusionary Narrative to Disability Empowerment: Case Study of Kampala Capital City of Uganda (virtual from Kampala, Uganda at 7:00 pm East Africa Time)
Fifteen-Minute Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Virtual Parallel Sessions
(A) Planning and Experimentalism (Virtual Panel)
Location/Link: Allard Hall Room 121
Zoom: https://fordham.zoom.us/j/82671545046
Moderator: Ivan Mugabi
1. Papon Dev – Dhaka Detail Area Plan and Its Legacy: A Never-Ending Uncontrolled Growth (virtual from Berlin at 7:45 pm Central European Summer Time)
2. Rui Marques Pinto – Idealization of More Perfect union in the city of Reutlingen: Immigration Board Between Tokenism Race and Rule of Law (virtual from Reutlingen, Germany at 7:45 pm Central European Summer Time)
3. Astrid Voorwinden – Experimenting in the Smart City: A legal analysis of Urban Living Labs (virtual from The Netherlands at 7:45 pm Central European Summer Time)
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(B) Systems, Patterns, and Structures in Urban Law (Hybrid Panel)
Location/Link: Allard Hall Room 123
Zoom: https://fordham.zoom.us/j/87566129794
Moderator: Geeta Tewari
1. Adam Feibelman – Municipal Debt and Debt Restructuring: India and the U.S.
2. Dr. Alessio Sardo – Free Market or Housing Shortage? Berlin Rent Cap and its Dilemma (virtual from Genoa, Italy at 7:45 pm Central European Summer Time)
Lunch
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Author Meets Reader
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Location: Allard Hall Room 121
Zoom: https://fordham.zoom.us/j/82671545046
Marc Roark in dialogue with Nestor Davidson on
Squatting and the State: Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis
(with Lorna Fox O’Mahony)
Field Outing
1:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Following the Lunch and Author Meets Reader session, we will walk from the Law School (approximately 20 minutes) to the Musqueam residential and commercial development known as lelÉ™mÌ“ for a tour and discussion of the project, some of which has been completed and is occupied, with other phases in the planning and development stages. From lelÉ™mÌ“ will we take taxis to the Squamish Nation Reserve No. 6 Kitsilano, an ancient village site and location for the future SenÌ“áḵw development on the shores of False Creek, for a walking tour and discussion of how the land came to be Reserve and what it means for there to be Reserve land in the middle of the City of Vancouver. Following this, we will walk to Granville Island (about 20 minutes) for dinner. The field excursion is free.
Dinner
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Tap & Barrel Bridges Restaurant
* Dinner will be at each participant's expense
8th Annual
International and Comparative Urban Law Conference
Thursday, July 14 - Saturday, July 16, 2022
Peter A. Allard School of Law - University of British Columbia
Allard Hall, 1822 E Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada
