The ICON-S Annual Conference 2025 took place from July 28 to 30, 2025, at the University of Brasília in Brazil. The conference brought together international legal experts under the main theme: »At the Crossroads of Public Law: Equality, Climate Emergency, and Democracy in the Digital Era«.
The program for the three-day meeting was structured around central discussion strands that reflected current global crises and developments in Public Law. A significant part of the academic exchange was dedicated to the constitutional implications of technological developments and anti-discrimination law.
Within these thematic focus areas, Prof. Dr. Emanuel V. Towfigh also participated in key discussions. Among other things, he gave a presentation on the constitutional challenge of generative AI for anti-discrimination law and took a position in the debate on party functions in autocratic systems. Prof. Towfigh participated in the following events:
- 28 July 2025, Chair of Book Roundtable “Equality’s Guardians: How Courts Conceptualize Equal Protection and Non-Discrimination Guarantees”, ICON•S Annual Conference 2025, Brasilia/Brasil
- 29 July 2025, »The Constitutional Challenge of Generative AI: Anti-Discrimination Law at a Crossroads«, Panel “AI and Human Rights in the EU”, ICON•S Annual Conference 2025, Brasilia/Brasil
- 29 July 2025, »Comparative Law, Transnational Law, Cosmopolitanism in times of “Make This Country Great Again”«, Panel “Public Law Reviews at the Crossroads 2: Contemporary Challenges and Possibilities”, ICON•S Annual Conference 2025, Brasilia/Brasil
- 30 July 2025, »Between Mediation and Power: Political Parties in Democratic and Authoritarian Constitutional Orders«, Panel “Regulating Political Parties”, ICON•S Annual Conference 2025, Brasilia/Brasil
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