The Católica | Lisbon School of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and MEDEL – Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés organise the international conference “Rule of Law in Europe”, to be held on 9 and 10 December 2021 at the Lisbon Campus of UCP.
(all times indicated in the program are in Lisbon time – for CET please consider one hour more)
You can also watch the livestream on JustiçaTV website (link below)
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Estado de Direito na Europa — MEDEL / ASJP
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https://www.justicatv.com/2018/directo.php?id=1363
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
9.Dec.2021
14.30 Opening session
– Isabel Capeloa Gil, Rector, UCP
– Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, UCP Lisbon
– Filipe Marques, President of MEDEL
– Didier Reynders, European Commissioner of Justice
15.00- Structural problems of the independence of the Judiciary in Europe
Moderator: 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)
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 The CJEU case law on judicial independence and the relationship between national judges and the CJEU
Moderator: 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)
10.Dec.2021
9.30 The ECHR case law on judicial independence and the relationship between national judges and the ECHR
Moderator and speaker:
– 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
– Yves Haeck, Ghent University, Belgium
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 The future lines of action of the European institutions
Moderator: 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
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 The position of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the need for European rules on internal/external independence
Moderator: 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)
16:00 Closing
– 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
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You can download the programme (EN) HERE
You can download the programme (PT) HERE