The International Symposium on the “Global Movement Towards the Abolition of the Death Penalty. Debate on the (Jus Cogens) Status of its Prohibition will be held on 10 October, at Colégio da Trindade, to mark the European Day against the Death Penalty. This event is coordinated by the researchers Anabela Miranda Rodrigues and Miguel Manero de Lemos.

Registration here.

This event is being held as part of the project ‘Social Challenges, Uncertainty and Law: Plurality | Vulnerability | Undecidability’ of the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research (funded by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology - Project UIDB/04643/2020; DOI 10.54499/UIDB/04643/2020 - https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04643/2020).

Programme

9h15 – Welcome remarks

  • Maria João Antunes
  • Anabela Miranda Rodrigues

09h30-11h00 – Panel I

  • Luis Arroyo Zapatero: From a Punishment that violates the Right to Life to a Cruel and Inhuman Punishment whose Abolition is required by International Law
  • Ignacio Berdugo Gómez de la Torre: The Death Penalty in Latin America. Abolitionism in the Codes and Extrajudicial Executions
  • Anabela Miranda Rodrigues / Inês Horta Pinto: Portugal – An Abolitionist Country for over 150 Years

11h00-11h30 - Debate

11h30-12h00 – Coffee Break

12h00-13h00 – Panel II

  • João Narciso: Judicial Cooperation in the case of the Death Penalty. Revisiting the Problem in the light of the possibility of considering the Prohibition of the Death Penalty as Jus Cogens
  • Anabela Miranda Rodrigues / Miguel João Costa: The Leading Role of Europe in the Abolition of the Death Penalty

13h00-13h30 - Debate

13h30-14h45 - Lunch

15h00-16h00 – Panel III

  • William Schabas: The right to life, jus cogens and the death penalty
  • José Luis de la Cuesta Arzamendi: Towards an Erga Omnes Ban on the Death Penalty Worldwide

16h00-16h30 - Debate

16h30-17h00 – Coffee Break

17h00-18h00 – Panel IV

  • Rafael Cheniaux: The unbearable lightness of regional ius cogens and the prohibition of the death penalty in the ECHR
  • Miguel Manero de Lemos: The Death Penalty and International Crimes

18h00-18h30 – Debate

18h30 – Final Remarks

  • Luís Arroyo Zapatero
  • Anabela Miranda Rodrigues
  • Miguel Manero de Lemos