Friday, 11 May 2018

 

Venue: University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, Aula (Grand Hall)

 

09.00 – 9.30 – Opening

Tamara Ćapeta, Jean Monnet Professor, University of Zagreb

Igor Gliha, Dean, University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law

Damir Boras, Rector, University of Zagreb

 

9.30 – 10.10 – Keynote addresses

Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the EU

Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia

 

10.10 – 10.40 – Five Years of Experience and Plans for the Future

Speakers:         

Blaženka Divjak, Croatian Minister of Science and Education

Dražen Bošnjaković, Croatian Minister of Justice of Croatia

Moderator: 

Tamara Perišin, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Zagreb      

 

10.40 – 11.00 – Coffee break

 

11.00 – 12.00 - Five Years of Judicial Cooperation

Speakers:         

Miroslav Šeparović, President of the Croatian Constitutional Court

Đuro Sessa, President of the Croatian Supreme Court

Siniša Rodin, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU

Moderator:

Iris Goldner Lang, UNESCO Chair & Jean Monnet Professor, University of Zagreb

 

12.00 – 12.20 – Book launch: Transformation or Reconstitution of Europe: The Critical Legal Studies Perspective on the Role of Courts in the EU, edited by Perišin, Rodin; authored by Caruso, Ćapeta, Kennedy, Lasser, Lenaerts, Nicola, Perišin, Rodin, Schlag, and Van Malleghem; Hart Publishing, 2018.

 

12.20 – 13.50 – Catered lunch

 

* Simultaneous translation (English – Croatian) is provided at the international celebratory conference.

Academic conference

THE ROLE OF LAW AND COURTS IN A CHANGING EUROPEAN UNION

­11 & 12 May 2018

Friday, 11 May 2018

 

Venue: University of Zagreb, Trg Republike Hrvatske 14, Aula (Grand Hall)

 

13.50 – 15.20 – Panel 1: Judicial Dialogue in a Changing European Union

Moderator:       

Tamara Ćapeta, Jean Monnet Professor, University of Zagreb

Speakers:         

Koen Lenaerts, President of the Court of Justice of the EU

Monica Claes, University of Maastricht

 

18.05 – Dinner reception for conference participants hosted by the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (prior registration required)

Venue: Government Premises, Visoka ulica

 

 

Saturday, 12 May 2018

 

Venue: University of Zagreb – Faculty of Law, Ćirilometodska 4, no. VII

 

8.30 – 10.00 – Panel 2: The New Frontiers of EU Law: Education and Social Rights in a Changing European Union

Moderator:     

Catherine Redgwell, Chichele Professor, University of Oxford - TBC

Speakers:

Stephen Weatherill, Jacques Delors Professor, University of Oxford

Tamara Perišin, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Zagreb

Commentators:

  Danijela Dolenec, University of Zagreb

Damjan Kukovec, Middlesex School of Law - TBC

 

10.00 – 10.30 – Coffee break

 

10.30 – 12.00 – Panel 3: The Role of Judicial Precedents in Migration Policy

Moderator:

Snježana Vasiljević, University of Zagreb

Speakers:       

Siniša Rodin, Judge at the Court of Justice of the EU

Iris Goldner Lang, UNESCO Chair & Jean Monnet Professor, University of Zagreb

Commentator:

Sam Koplewicz, Harvard Satter Fellow

 

12.00 – 13.00 - Catered lunch

 

13.00 – 14.30 – Panel 4: The Limits of Judicial Interpretation

Moderator:

Melita Carević, University of Zagreb

Speakers:       

Alexander Somek, University of Vienna

Tamara Ćapeta, University of Zagreb

Commentator:

Samuel Dahan, Queen’s University, Canada