Litigating change: training lawyers on the EU rule of law acquis

   2024. január 23. 10:00 - 2024. január 25. 16:00

Train the Trainers Workshop

Date: 23-25 January 2024

Place: HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Conference Room, Budapest, 1097 Tóth Kálmán utca 4, Hungary

Day 1 – Tuesday, 23 January 2024

 

10:00 – 10:15

Welcome & introduction

  • Fruzsina Orosz | Director, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies
  • Marton Varju | Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies
  • Giota Massouridou | attorney

 

10:15 – 12:00

The rule of law in the EU and the EU rule of law framework

  • Gábor Halmai | ELTE University, Budapest

 

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch break

 

13:00 – 14:30

How to train lawyers effectively in online and hybrid environments?

  • Bernadette Somody | ELTE University, Budapest

 

14:30 – 15:00

Coffee break

15:00 – 16:30

Expert panel: how to litigate successfully in national courts using EU and ECHR law and the EU rule of law acquis?

  • Giota Massouridou | attorney
  • Barbara Pohárnok | attorney, Hungarian Helsinki Committee
  • Pál Sonnevend | ELTE University, Budapest

 

 

Day 2 – Wednesday, 24 January 2024

 

9:00 – 9:45

How to put together a case study for legal training on the law of the EUCFR?

 

9:45 – 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 – 10:45

The Polish judicial independence cases before the CJEU: strategies, arguments and results

  • Barbara Grabowska-Moroz | CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest

 

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45

Strategies to engage lawyers in entering the public interest field (online)

  • Giulia Patane | PILnet
  • Judit Geller | PILnet

 

11:45 – 12:15

How to motivate lawyers to take up ‘rule of law’ cases?

  • Giota Massouridou | attorney

 

12:15 – 13:15

Lunch break

13:15 – 14:15

After the judgment: what happens with preliminary rulings at the national level?

  • Marton Varju | Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest

 

14:15 – 14:30

Coffee break

14:30 – 16:30

Discussion panel: pressures on NGOs and human rights defenders

  • Giota Massouridou | attorney
  • Márton Gerő | ELTE University, Budapest
  • Eszter Polgári | Háttér Society
  • Bea Bodrogi | Hungarian Civil Liberties Union
  • Márta Pardavi | Hungarian Helsinki Committee
  • Gábor Polyák (moderator) | Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest

 

 

Day 3 – Thursday, 25 January 2024

 

9:00 – 9:45

The training handbook (feedback session), other training resources

  • Marton Varju | Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest

 

9:45 – 10:00

Coffee break

10:00 – 10:45

Preliminary rulings before the CJEU and how the national judge sees the procedure

  • András Osztovits | Károli University, Budapest

 

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45

How to convince the national judge to take EU law seriously and/or to make a preliminary ruling to the CJEU?

  • Péter Metzinger | attorney

 

11:45 – 12:30

Lunch break

12:30 – 14:00

Judicial independence, courts in Eastern Europe, and the law

  • Mátyás Bencze | Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
  • Ágnes Kovács | ELTE University, Budapest

 

14:00 – 15:00

Evaluation and feedback

 

 

Grant Agreement number: 101046313 — LighT — JUST-2021-JTRA

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