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.
The conference was live brodcasted by Justiça TV and all the videos are also available on Justiça TV website
Below you can watch all the speeches and debates that took place during the conference:
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