The Chair for Linguistic Rights participated in the organisation of the Summer University of Gandia by giving a course called ‘Linguistic Rights and State Territorial Organization: Hierarchy or Security’. The course was held on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 July 2019.

Participants in this course were speakers such as Javier Pérez Royo, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Seville, who dealt with the break of territorial constitution and the crisis of Spanish democracy.

Also participating was Manuel Alcaraz Ramos, lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Alacant and former Minister of Transparency, Social Responsibility, Participation and Cooperation, who presented the Valencian proposal for the reform of the Spanish Constitution.

Finally, Vicenta Tasa Fuster, lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Valencia and director of the Chair for Linguistic Rights, also took part by explaining the definition of linguistic rights and their current consequences.

To conclude, Eva Pons Parera, lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Barcelona, gave a conference about on the recognition of linguistic rights in complex states. The event closed with a conference by Anselm Bodoque Arribas, Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Valencia, on public policies as a materialization of rights and conflicts management. You can see in this link a brief summary of the course ‘Linguistic Rights and State Territorial Organisation: Hierarchy or Security’.

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