{"id":20018,"date":"2017-10-10T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=20018"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:10","slug":"juristalk-oct-13th-prof-zoran-oklopcic-catalan-self-determination-referendum-political-drama-constitutional-standoff-tragicomedy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2017\/juristalk-oct-13th-prof-zoran-oklopcic-catalan-self-determination-referendum-political-drama-constitutional-standoff-tragicomedy-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"JurisTalk | Oct 13th \u2013 Prof. Zoran Oklopcic \u2013 Catalan Self-Determination Referendum: Political Drama, Constitutional Standoff, and the Tragicomedy of Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n JurisTalk | Oct 13th \u2013 Prof. Zoran Oklopcic \u2013 Catalan Self-Determination Referendum: Political Drama, Constitutional Standoff, and the Tragicomedy of Theory\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

Zoran Oklopcic <\/strong>is Associate Professor at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He earned his SJD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and was MacCormick Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, Junior Faculty at Harvard Law School\u2019s Institute for Global Law and Policy in Doha, Qatar, and a Hauser Global Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law. His book, Beyond the People: Social Imaginary and Constituent Imagination<\/em> is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in February 2018.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date:<\/strong> October 13th, 2:35 – 4:15 Southam Hall 624<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Barcelona slowly inches towards Belfast, one might wonder what was it exactly that made the events on October 1 so disturbing? Was it only the use of force by the Spanish police? Or was it also the context\u2014the denial of the democratic aspirations of Spain\u2019s Catalan citizens\u2014which made those scenes particularly egregious? However this Spanish crisis plays out, the Catalan sovereigntist movement has in that regard already accomplished one major victory: it has successfully linked the issue of the referendum with that of the freedom of expression and association, thereby making the attitudes of anti-secessionists appear not only insensitive, petty, and inhumane, but also unreasonable and unethical. Irrespective of the formal unconstitutionality of the act of the referendum\u2014as well as the unilateral secession of Catalonia itself, as one of the referendum\u2019s possible outcomes\u2014violence is no way to respond to democratic aspirations. But if violence and police repression is not the way to respond to democratic aspirations, what is? That is a much thornier question, to which the ideals of popular sovereignty, national selfdetermination, and democratic self-government have no good answer. What might such an answer entail is the topic of Dr. Oklopcic’s lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zoran Oklopcic is Associate Professor at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. He earned his SJD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and was MacCormick Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law, Junior Faculty at Harvard Law School\u2019s Institute for Global Law and Policy in Doha, Qatar, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20021,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20018\/revisions\/20021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}