MEDEL Conferences
Rule of Law in Europe Conference - Lisbon 2021
- Published: 22 January 2022
The Católica | Lisbon School of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and MEDEL - Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés organised the international conference "Rule of Law in Europe", on 9 and 10 December 2021 at the Lisbon Campus of UCP.
Opening session
Isabel Capeloa Gil / Rector, UCP
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque / UCP Lisbon
Filipe Marques / President of MEDEL
Didier Reynders / European Commissioner of Justice
Structural problems of the independence of the Judiciary in Europe
Manuel Soares / President of ASJP - Portuguese Judges Association
João Caupers / Lisbon Nova University / President of the Portuguese Constitutional Court
Laurent Pech / Middlesex University, London
Adam Bodnar / University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw / Polish Ombudsman (2015-2021)
DEBATE
The CJEU case law on judicial independence and the relationship between national judges and the CJEU
Monika Frackowiak / Judge at Poznan Court, Poland / MEDEL board member
Marc de Werd / University of Amsterdam / Judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal
Paulo Mota Pinto / Coimbra University / Judge of the Portuguese Constitutional Court (1998-2007)
Miguel Poiares Maduro / UCP Lisbon / Advocate General at the CJUE (2003-2009)
DEBATE
The ECHR case law on judicial independence and the relationship between national judges and the ECHR
Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque / UCP Lisbon / Judge at the ECHR (2011-2020)
Francesco Viganò / Università Bocconi, Milano / Judge at the Italian Constitutional Court
András Sajó / Central European University / Judge at the ECHR (2009-2017)
Anke Eilers / Presiding Judge at the Cologne Court of Appeal, Germany / President-elect of the CCJE - Consultative Council of European Judges
DEBATE
The future lines of action of the European institutions
Filipe Marques / MEDEL
Paulo Rangel / UCP Porto / Member of the European Parliament
José Manuel Pureza / University of Coimbra / Member of the Portuguese Parliament
Patrícia Fragoso Martins / UCP Lisbon
John Morijn / University of Groningen
DEBATE
The position of the Public Prosecutor's Office / the need for European rules on internal/external independence
Adão Carvalho / President of SMMP - Portuguese Prosecutors Union
Dolores Delgado / General Prosecutor of Spain
Antonio Vercher Noguera / President of the CCPE - Consultative Council of European Prosecutors
Paulo Dá Mesquita / Judge at the Tribunal de Contas / Member of the Consultative Council of the Portuguese General Prosecutor (2011-2017)
DEBATE
The position of the Public Prosecutor's Office / the need for European rules on internal/external independence
Jorge Pereira da Silva / Dean of the Católica Lisbon Law School
Adão Carvalho / President of SMMP
Manuel Soares / President of ASJP
Mariarosaria Guglielmi / European Delegated Prosecutor in Rome / Vice-President of MEDEL
Francisca Van Dunem / Minister of Justice of Portugal