Programme for IACL Research Group Workshop: Luxembourg, 28-29 November 2019

IACL Research Group
« The Other Rule of Law Traditions in the World » 

First Workshop in Luxembourg
28-29 November 2019
 

Programme 

Convenors: 

Luc Heuschling, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Luxembourg
Selin Esen, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Ankara 

 Thursday 28 November 2019 

Meeting place: 4 rue Alphonse Weicker (“Weicker Building”), 1st Floor, Room A101 

8.30 – 12.15 am: First Session 
12.30 – 2 pm: Lunch 
2 – 6 pm: Second Session 

 Scientific Agenda of the whole day: 

 Aim and methodology of the research group: Introduction by Luc Heuschling and Selin Esen 

Presentation & discussion of the Questionnaire 

Presentation and/or discussion of various examples: 

The two chapters on South Korea (Hahm Chaihark) and Singapore (Li-Ann Thio) published in R. Peereboom, ed., Asian Discourses of Rule of Law, London, Routledge, 2004) 

Switzerland (Benjamin Schindler) 

Turkey (Selin Esen) 

Luxembourg (Luc Heuschling) 

Open debate: What’s special about your own Rule of Law Tradition? What’s the best way to present its identity to a foreign observer? 

Friday 29 November 2019 

Meeting place: the same.  

8.30 – 12.30 am: Third Session 

Open floor to young researchers on Rule of Law:  
10 Fellows from the ‘Re-constitution Research Programme’, Berlin 
https://www.reconstitution.eu/en/about-us/programs.html 

Future members & future events of the research group 

 13.00: Lunch 

 List of Participants 

1) Members of the IACL Research Group: 

Brazil: Prof Luiz Guilherme Conci (Pointificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paolo) 

Belgium: Prof. Marc Verdussen (Université catholique de Louvain) 

Cameroon: Prof Laura-Stella Enonchong (De Monfort University, Leicester) 

Colombia: Prof. Daniel Eduardo Bonilla Maldonado (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá) 

Denmark: Prof. Helle Krunke (University of Copenhagen) 

France: em. Prof. Constance Grewe (formerly University of Strasbourg) 

Hungary: Prof. Eszter Bodnár, University Eötvös Loránd (ELTE), Budapest 

Luxembourg: Prof. Luc Heuschling (University of Luxembourg) 

Poland: Prof. Marcin Michal Wiszowaty (University of Gdansk) 

Sweden: Prof. Joakim Nergelius (University of Örebro) 

Switzerland: Prof. Benjamin Schindler (University of St. Gallen) 

Turkey: Prof. Selin Esen (University of Ankara) 

Excused:  

Prof. Dayuan Han (Renmin University of China, Bejing); Prof. Jaakko Husa (University of Helsinki); Prof. Andras Jakab (University of Salzburg, Austria); Prof. Sabrina Ragone (University of Bologna); Prof. Hajime Yamamoto (Keio University, Tokyo); Prof. Miguel Pérez-Moneo (University of Barcelona) 

2) Reconstitution Fellows (2019/20):

CVs and research projects are available here.  

Ms Nyasha Weinberg (Law & Political Science, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law Centre, UK) 
Rule of Law Measurement 

Prof. Csaba Győry (Law & Philosophy, University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary) 
Judicial Reforms and the Rule of Law in Central and Eastern Europe 

Prof. Władysław Jóźwicki (Constitutional Law, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) 
Rule of Law in the EU: Between Scylla and Charybdis of constitutional identity and common constitutional traditions 

Mr László Detre (Law, Hungary) 
The Rule of Law Checklist – A starting point to interpret Article 2 of the TEU? 

Prof. Neliana Rodean (Constitutional Law, University of Verona, Italy) 
Defending Constitutional Democracy in Romania: towards a judicial approach 

Prof. Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka (Constitutional Law, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) 
European Constitutional Pluralism in face of Democratic Backsliding. Towards pluralistic legitimization of external review of constitutional amendments in EU Member States 

Ms Stefanie Beermann (Law, Germany) 
Legal issues in conjunction with the implementation of the European Public Prosecutor's Office in particular with regard to the principle of mutual trust 

Prof. Noémi Lévy-Aksu (History & Law, Turkey/UK/France) 
Defining and Challenging Emerging Powers in post-2001 Europe: the Role of Parliamentary Oversight and Litigation in France and the United Kingdom 

Prof. Neus Vidal Martí (Political Science & Journalism, Open University of Catalonia, Spain) 
Transparency laws in Europe: a comparative study using the right to request public information 

Dr Taygeti Michalakea (International Law, Greece/Italy) 
Democracy and Rule of Law in Europe: Revisiting the role of corporate actors