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Forum 2016 Budapest

Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center for Social Sciences

Országház utca 30.

Central and Eastern European socio-political and legal transition revisited – 
theoretical perspectives

 

22.04.2016. Friday

8.30-9.00 Registration and coffee

(Room Jakobinus)

9.00-11.00 Opening plenary session

Welcome address by András Jakab (Director, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies)

Opening by Iván Szelényi (Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Former professor of Yale and NYU)

Renáta Uitz (Professor, Central European University, Budapest)

What Does a Study of Civil Society Organizations Have to Offer to Constitutional Scholarship?

Ferenc Hörcher (Director, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Research Centre for Humanities Institute of Philosophy, Budapest) Perspectives of the V4 Cooperation: history of political thought and political philosophy in the service of political analysis

Marie-Elisabeth Baudoin (Maître de conférences, Université D’Auvergne École de Droit, Clermont-Ferrand)

Constitutional Law as a mirror of transition to liberal democracy and its backsliding in Eastern Europe

György Gajduschek (Senior Research Fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest)

“The opposite is true!…as well!” Extremely inconsistent values: empirical evidence from and speculation over Hungarian survey data

Room Jakobinus

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

Room Jakobinus

11.30-13.00 Parallel sessions I.

Minorities and transition

Chair: Petra Gümplová

Antonija Petričušić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Zagreb)

Europeanisation of Minority Policy in Croatia: Limited Outcomes of the Second Generation Minority Conditionality

Magdalena Nazimek (University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration, Lodz)

Influence of Social and Political Transition on Migration Policy in Poland

Augusta Featherston (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Washington, DC)

Ritika Bhasker (International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Washington, DC)

Participation without representation: youth engagement in electoral democracy

Room: JTI Meeting Room

Legal concepts in transition

Chair: Renáta Uitz

Jan Bazyli Klakla (Jagiellonian University, Department of Sociology of Law, Cracow)

The Rebirth of Customary Law in the Time of Transition

Maciej Dybowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Poznań)

Transition and determinacy of legal concepts

Biljana Đorđević (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade)

Depraved of legitimating discourse: CEE walled states, human rights in transit, and emerging political subjectivities

Room: JTI Room 32-33

Institutions in transition

Chair: György Gajduschek

Maciej Juzaszek (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Cracow)

The crisis over Polish Constitutional Tribunal. What went wrong during 26 years of transition?

Dario Čepo (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Zagreb)

Reform Catalysts or Conservative Hindrances: the Upper Houses of Central and Eastern European Legislatures Compared

Danilo Vukovic (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade)

The hollowing out of institutions: lawmaking and policymaking in contemporary Serbia

Room: Library Meeting Room

13.00-14.00 Lunch

Room: Jakobinus

14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions II.

Political Culture

Chair: Veronika Czina

Petra Burai (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale / Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest)

Transitioning boundaries between law and social practice: regulating and punishing corruption in Hungary

Bojan Vranic (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Political Sciences, Belgrade)

Cultural change and democratic consolidation: the case of Serbian authoritarian heritage

Konrad Kobyliński (University of Silesia, Faculty, Katowice)

Judicial Politics and the Rule of Law

Room: JTI Meeting Room

Trajectories of transition

Chair: Federica Cristani

Mirosław Michał Sadowski (University of Wrocław, Faculty of Law, Wrocław)

Collective Memory and Historical Determinacy: The Shaping of the Polish Transition

Ketrina Çabiri Mijo (University of Salzburg, Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences , Salzburg / European University, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, Tirana / University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex)

Adela Danaj (Central European University, Department of Political Science, Budapest)

Explaining the trajectories of post-Communist democratization: study case – Albania

Ilija Manasiev (University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, Skopje)

Theoretical aspects and geopolitical implications of the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the challenges of the Republic of Macedonia as a sovereign state

Room: JTI Room 32-33

LEGAL CULTURE

Chair: Balázs Fekete

Michał Stambulski (University of Wrocław, Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory, Wrocław)

The People vs The Law. Populism in Central and Eastern Europe

Jacek Srokosz (Opole University, Law and Administration Faculty, Opole)

Can we speak about the Americanisation of law and legal practice in Poland after 1989?

Filip Rakoczy (University of Wrocław, Faculty of Law, Wrocław)

The Role of the Autonomy of Legal Culture in the Polish Transition Process

Room: Library Meeting Room

15.30-16.00 Coffee break

JTI second floor

16.00-18.00 Parallel sessions III.

Europeanisation

Chair: Jürgen Busch

Endre Orbán (Constitutional Court of Hungary, Budapest)

The EU-Member State relationship as a principal – agent problem

Martin Belov (University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of Law, Sofia)

(Re)creating European Identity in a Multilayered and Pluralist Institutional and Normative Context. The Effects of European Integration and Globalization on Bulgarian Constitutional Identity

Veronika Czina (Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center for Social Sciences Lendület-HPOPs research Group, Budapest)

Legal obligations and conflicting strategic priorities: an analysis of Hungary’s EU policy

Petra Gümplová (Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Erfurt)

Getting Legality Right in the EU Refugee Crisis?

Room: JTI Meeting Room

Judicial issues

Chair: Bojan Spaić

Donatas Murauskas (Vilnius University, Faculty of Law, Vilnius)

Extra-legal arguments of constitutional courts: the temporal effects of a judgment

Axelle Reiter (University of Verona, Faculty, Verona)

Justice in Transition: Assessing the ICTY Legacy

Eszter Kirs (Miskolc University, Faculty of Law, Miskolc)

Has any war criminal been acquitted or any innocent national hero convicted by the ICTY?

- A map of high-profile cases from the perspective of criminal liability concepts

Pal Vincent (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Law, Berlin)

Florian Stefan (Schönherr Rechtsanwälte (Austria), Wien)

International Arbitral Tribunals and Legitimacy: A Comparative Study

Room: JTI Room 32-33

Lustration and memory

Chair: Katalin Kelemen

Miklós Könczöl (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest / Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest)

Memory laws in transition

Karolina Ristova-Aasterud (University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, Skopje)

Aleksandra Deanoska Trendafilova (University of “Ss. Cyril and Methodius”, Faculty of Law “Iustinianus Primus”, Skopje)

Too much, too late: The legal, political and theoretical controversies regarding the lustration laws and lustration process in the Republic of Macedonia

Justyna Krupa (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Cracow)

Lustration in the Balkans – the specific case of Croatia

Justyna Jezierska (University of Wrocław, Faculty of Law, Wrocław)

Lustration - the revenge of the memory

Room: Library Meeting Room

18.30. Reception by the French Embassy in Budapest

Room: Jakobinus

 

23.04.2016. Saturday

9.30-10.00 Welcome coffee

JTI second floor

10.00-11.30 Parallel sessions I.

Private law and transition

Chair: Martin Belov

Tymoteusz Siwiak (University of Wrocław, Faculty of Law, Wrocław)

Extralegal values their role and meaning in civil law of transition country with regard to a discourse about the Polish clause of abuse of law

Rafał Mańko (University of Amsterdam, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law, Amsterdam)

The ‘form’ of law and the ‘substance’ of socio-economic transformation: an inquiry into the role of law in the dynamics of post-Communist transition in Poland

Adam Szot (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland)

Judicial review of public administration within European multicentic legal order -
scope, criteria and conditions

Room: JTI Meeting Room

Financial Issues

Chair: Pál Vincent

Joanna Ptak (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law, Cracow)

The problem of European integration in the sphere of tax law from the perspective of CEE region. The case of Poland.

Federica Cristani (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest / Hungarian Academy of Sciences Center for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest)

Economic State-Building in Kosovo: Reconciling Economic Sovereignty and Conditionality in the International Investment Protection

Marko Dimitrijević (University of Niš, Faculty of Law, Niš)

The impact of European integration on the formation of a new monetary law: the case of Serbia

Room: JTI Room 32-33

(Re)Privatisation in transition

Chair: Eszter Kirs

Piotr Eckhardt (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Cracow)

Quarter-century of legal and political battles for reprivatization in post-socialist Poland.

Bronislav Totskyi (National academy of sciences of Ukraine, Koretskyi Institute of state and law, Kyiv)

The transition of the Ukrainian legal system in Post-Soviet times: The agricultural land property case

Marcin Wróbel (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law, Cracow)

Expropriation and (lack of restoration). Case study of Tatra Mountains National Park

Room: JTI Director’s Room

11.30-12.00 Coffee break

JTI second floor

12.00-13.30 Parallel sessions II.

Judicial issues II.

Chair: Ágnes Kovács

Arnulfo Daniel Mateos Durán (University of Heidelberg, Faculty of Law, Heidelberg)

The “margin of appreciation” as a cohesive tool for the Human Right Protection system in Europe. A comparison with the Inter-American Human Rights System

G. Szabó Dániel (Central European University, Department of Legal Studies, Budapest)

The authority of the European Court of Human Rights – Hungary and the Netherlands compared

Katalin Kelemen (Örebro universitet, School of Law, Psychology and Social Work, Örebro)

Judicial dissent and legal certainty

Room: JTI Meeting Room

Theoretical problems

Chair: Miodrag Jovanovic

Szilárd Tattay (Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Budapest / Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest)

Can Norms Have Truth Value?

Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Cracow)

Should a theory of legal language take into account psychological data?

Filip Golba (Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration, Cracow)

Conceptual analysis and methodological pluralism

Bojan Spaić (University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade)

Legal Interpretation, Power and Authority

Room: JTI Room 32-33

Sociology of law roundtable

Room: JTI Director’s Room

13.30-14.30 Lunch

JTI second floor

14.30 – 15.30 Annual meeting of the CEE-Forum Coordinators and Advisory Board

Participation is available only upon registration. The registration fee is 60 EuR.

Registration and payment instructions can be found on http://www.cee-forum.org/2016