Program Overview
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PLEASE NOTE – Some presenters listed in the program did not ultimately present at the conference, as they cancelled attendance after the program had gone to print.

Monday 10 February
All day	Optional workshops, including travel to relevant sites
Tuesday 11 February
All day	Optional workshops, including travel to relevant sites
Evening	Informal – Go out to Haifa cafes – Technion student-guided (self-pay)
Wednesday 12 February
9:00am	Official Welcome / Plenary Session
	Professor Rachelle Alterman – Local Host Team (Founding President, PLPR) Professor (visiting) Shamay Assif, Head, Center for Urban and Regional Studies, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Professor Yoram Halevi – Dean, Continuing Education (home of the Master of Real Estate Program), Technion Professor Benjamin Davy – President, PLPR; Dortmund University
	Keynote Speaker: Professor Hanoch Dagan Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law — “Expropriatory Compensation, Distributive Justice, and The Rule of Law”
10:30am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Parallel Sessions
12:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm	Parallel Sessions
3:30pm	Coffee Break
4:00pm	An Introduction to Israeli Planning Law and Land Policy – Professor Rachelle Alterman, Technion
5:00pm	PLPR meeting and elections
6:15pm	Buses departing to Haifa City Hall, Hadar
6:45pm	Haifa City Reception / Haifa Planning Talk (with light food).  At the historic City Hall in the mid-town Hadar area of the city. Address by the Mayor of Haifa Mr Yona Yahav, a lawyer.	Haifa City Hall by Avishai Teicher via PikiWiki project
8:30pm	Free evening or Haifa ethnic restaurants self-pay dinner (student-guided) / PhD Students – Group Dinner
	Bus back to hotels (Carmel Center); bus to restaurants downtown, or walk.
Thursday 13 February
9:00am	Plenary Session
	Keynote Speaker: Professor Chris Webster Dean, Hong Kong University Faculty of Architecture — “Urbanization and development as the fragmentation of property rights”
	Keynote Speaker: Professor Jerold S. Kayden Frank Backus Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Harvard University Graduate School of Design — “Can Planning Law Make Public Space?”
10:45am	Coffee Break
11:15am	Parallel Sessions
1:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Special Plenary Session: Judicial Perspectives
	Welcome by: President of the Technion – Professor Peretz Lavie Prof. Yehuda Kalay Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning
	Keynote Speaker: The Honorable Justice (ret.) Dalia Dorner Israel Supreme Court — “The Israeli Democracy: Human Rights and the Fight Against Terrorism”
	Discussion about implications for planning: Opened by panel of overseas judges attending PLPR 2014.
4:00pm	Coffee Break
4:30pm	Parallel Sessions
6:30pm	Buses to a very special dinner venue (approx. 30 minutes’ ride)
	Dinner (informal dress). Includes tour and planning content.  PLPR Flag Transfer Ceremony.
10:00 – 10:30pm	Buses back to hotels
Friday 14 February
9:00am	Parallel Sessions
10:45am	Coffee Break
11:15am	Parallel Sessions
1:00pm	Bus to Bahai World Center, Haifa
1:30pm	Concluding Plenary and lunch at Bahai World Center
	Lecture and tour “The Bahai World Center and its Contribution to Haifa Planning” (click here for more on the Bahai Gardens in Haifa)	Bahai Gardens
3:30pm	OFFICIAL CONFERENCE CONCLUSION and THANKS
3:45pm	Planning tour of Haifa and Region
6:00pm	Ethnic-food dinner in Druze Village, with Druze planners (self-pay)
7:30pm	Bus back to hotels (or stay on and take shared cabs)
Saturday 15 February
All day	For suggestions for self-organizing for post-conference touring, click here.