Program

Thursday 23rd September 2021 – Institute for Legal Studies and online

8h30: Official Opening by

H.E. Pascale Andréani, French Ambassador to Hungary (5 min) 

H.E. Désirée Bonis, Dutch Ambassador to Hungary (5 min)

Dr. Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies in Budapest (5 min)

8h45 – 12h15: Round Table 1: The National Perspectives of Constitutional Identity and Their Relation to the EU Legal Order

Moderator: Dr. Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies in Budapest

8h45: Introduction of the speakers by Dr. Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies in Budapest (10 min)

8h55: Presentation 1: “The Constitutional Identity of Member States: False Self-Evident Fact or Constitutive Element of a New Legal Architecture of the Union?”, Prof. Alain Delcamp (30 min)

9h25: Presentation 2: “The Hungarian Sabre of Constitutional Identity from Constitutional Texts”, Prof. Ernő Várnay (30 min)

9h55: Presentation 3: “The Emancipation of the Use of Constitutional Identity by Extra-Jurisdictional National Actors”, Dr. Danielle Rojas (20 min)

10h15: Discussion and Questions & Answers (20 min)

10h35: Coffee break (20 min)

10h55: Presentation 4: “The French Approach to Constitutional Identity”, Prof. François-Xavier Millet (30 min)

11h25: Presentation 5: “Gun in Wrong Hands? – A Comparative Analysis of the Concept of Constitutional Identity”, Szabó Patrik, PhD student (20 min)

11h45: Presentation 6: “The Construction of Constitutional Identity Constrained by the Identity of the Union: The Romanian and Bulgarian Examples”, Lencka Popravka, PhD student (20 min) (online)

12h05: Discussion and Questions & Answers (25 min)

12h30 – 13h30: Lunch break 

13h30 – 17h30: Round Table 2: The Relationship Between EU Law and the Constitutional Identity of the Member States

Moderator: Prof. Tímea Drinóczi, Visiting Professor - Faculty of Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

13h30: Introduction of the speakers by Prof. Tímea Drinóczi, Visiting Professor - Faculty of Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (10 min)

13h40: Presentation 7: “The Many Faces of the Rule of Law in Europe”, Prof. Dimitry Kochenov (30 min)

14h10: Presentation 8: “Judging in Times of European Crisis”, Prof. Marc de Werd (30 min)

14h40: Presentation 9: “The Diagonality Problem of EU Rule of Law: Proposal for an Incorporation à l’Européenne”, Prof. Dr. Nagy Csongor István (20 min)

15h00: Discussion and Questions & Answers (20 min)

15h20: Coffee break (20 min)

15h40: Presentation 10: “Constitutional Identity in European Multilevel Constitutionalism – The Example of Germany”, Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess (30 min)

16h10: Presentation 11: “Constitutional Identity within the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union”, Dr. Orbán Endre (20 min)

16h30: Presentation 12: “The Need to Respect the Exclusive Competence of the Court of Justice to Protect the Constitutional Identity of the Member States”, Stéphanie Hiol, PhD student (20 min)

16h50: Discussion and Questions & Answers (40 min)

 

Friday 24th September 2021 – Institute for Legal Studies and online

9h00 – 13h25: Round Table 3: Theoretical Approach of the Concept of Constitutional Identity in the Context of EU Law

Moderator: Dr. Nóra Chronowski, Senior Research Fellow, the Institute for Legal Studies in Budapest

9h00: Welcome back speech and introduction of the speakers by Dr. Nóra Chronowski, Senior Research Fellow, the Institute for Legal Studies in Budapest (10 min)

9h10: Presentation 13: “Constitutional Identity as a Normative Constitutional Concept”, Prof. Zoltán Szente (30 min)

9h40: Presentation 14: “Constitutional Identity, the New Babel of Law”, Prof. Marie-Elisabeth Baudoin (30 min)

10h10: Presentation 15: “Constitutional Identity as a Guarantor of a System of Identities in European Constitutional Laws”, Dr. Laurianne Allezard (20 min)

10h30: Discussion and Questions & Answers (20 min)

10h50: Coffee Break (20 min)

11h10: Presentation 16: “The Concept of Constitutional Identity: Its Dangers, Path, and Promise”, Prof. Armin von Bogdandy (30 min)

11h40: Presentation 17: “The Identity of the Constitutional Subjects in the EU: New Members States and Repetition Compulsion”, Prof. Anna Śledzińska-Simon (30 min)

12h10: Presentation 18: “Constitutional Identity and the Theory of Generations”, Prof. Ass. Habil. Miklós Könczöl (20 min)

12h30: Presentation 19: “Exploratory Variables of Constitutional Identity?”, Viktor Olivér Lőrincz, Research Fellow (20 min)

12h50: Discussion and Questions & Answers (20 min)

13h10: Official closure by:

Dr. Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, Director of the Institute for Legal Studies in Budapest (5 min)

Prof. Alexis Rusinek, Attaché for Scientific and University Cooperation at the French Embassy in Hungary (5 min)

Dr. Anita Koncsik, Senior Legal and Political Officer at the Dutch Embassy in Hungary (5 min)

 

The program of the event in French. 

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Free event

Simultaneous translation in French and English

Hybrid format: at the Institute for Legal Studies (Tóth Kálmán utca 4, 1097 Budapest) and online

Mandatory registration before September 22nd 12pm: https://forms.gle/QkuKymR3Qjs2zCrC6