Venue: IUC Dubrovnik

 Organizer: Jean Monnet Chair of European Public Law, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law

The Seminar is aimed for:

• undergraduate and graduate students of law
• doctoral students and researchers
• junior public servants

A limited number of travel and subsistance grants will be offered to participants presenting a research paper. Deadline for submission of abstracts (500 words) is January 15, 2010. Selected candidates will be invited to submitt the paper in Dubrovnik. Deserving contributions will be published in the Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy.

Paper proposals should be sent by e-mail to the following address: ejpkatedra@gmail.com

Deadlines:

• submission of paper proposals: January 15, 2010
• submission of papers: April 10, 2010
• submission of final papers for publication: June 15, 2010
• registration (without paper - limited number of places): please send a motivation letter

Grants:

• Authors of accepted papers will receive  grants covering reasonable travel expenses and lodging with breakfast for 4 days. There is no need to submit any additional grant applications.
• A limited number of grants is availible for advanced students and young professionals (participants without paper).
• Applicants from non-EU European states who want to take part at the conference (without paper) may be elegible for IUC grants (see below). Such applicants should submitt the grant application form and submitt it to the IUC directly. Application form for scholarship can be downloaded here.
• Croatian applicants can apply for a grant of the Croatian Ministry of Science.

Participating professors: (confirmed) (cancelled due to volcano)

• Prof. Jo Shaw, University of Edinburgh
• Prof. Marise Cremona, European University Institute, Florence
• Prof. Derrick Wyatt, Oxford University
• Prof. Don Regan, University of Michigan Law School
• Prof. Sigmar Stadlmeier, Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Prof. Catherine Barnard, Cambridge University
• Prof. Zdenek Kühn, Charles University Praha
• Jan Komarek, University of Oxford
• Barbara Havelkova, University of Oxford
• Prof. Adam Lazowski, University of Westminster
• Prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro, European University Florence
• Prof. Neil Komesar, University of Wisconsin Law School
• Prof. Siniša Rodin, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law
• Prof. Tamara Ćapeta, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law

Sunday, April 18 - CANCELLED due to volcano eruption

18.30 Opening

19.00 Welcome reception

Monday, April 19 - CANCELLED due to volcano eruption

Tuesday, April 20

09.50 - 10.00 Opening

10.00 - 10.50 Irena Tušek - Finding the Balance between Market Freedoms and Fundamental Rights: EU Competition Law Policy v Intellectual Property Rights – Pas Si Simple!

10.50 - 11.00 Coffee break

11.00 - 11.50 Jan-Jaap Kuipers – Breach of a fundamental right as grounds for non-recognition of a civil judgement rendered in another Member State

12.00 - 12:50 Maria Tzanou – Can fundamental rights jeopardize the "coherence" of the internal market? Some thoughts on recent case-law of the ECJ on data protection

13.00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - Viewing of the movie "The Hour of the Pig" followed by panel discussion on legal formalism in Europe (please consult reading materials)

Wednesday, April 21

09.30 - 10.30 Darinka Piqani – The Balance between Market Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the Accession Process on the Western Balkans

10.30 - 10.50 Coffee break

10.50 - 11.50 Stefan Gregor -  Similar But not the Same - Why Market Freedoms are not Fundamental Rights

11.50 - 12.00 break

12-00 - 13.00 Vasiliki Kosta – Freedom of Expression in Internal Market Legislation

13.00 - 15:00 Lunch break

15.00 - 16.30 Panel discussion on recent developments in the case law of the European Court of Justice, introduced by Prof. Siniša Rodin, and Prof. Tamara Ćapeta, University of Zagreb - case C-555/07 Seda Kücükdeveci (please consult reading materials)

16.45 - 17.45 Teleconference:  Egle Dagilyte – The Right to Education and Free Movement of Persons: Whose rights and how does the EU protect?

Thursday, April 22

09.30 - 11.00 Jan Komarek

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00 Barbara Havelkova

13.00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14.30 - 15.20  Nelleke Koffeman – The impact of EU fundamental freedoms on human rights standards; a need for (European) regulation?

15.20 - 16:00 break

16:00 - 17:30 Prof. Don Regan, University of Michigan Law School (via Skype)

Friday, April 23

09.00 - 10.50 Prof. Neil Komesar, University of Wisconsin Law School

10.50 - 11.10 Coffee break

11.10 - 13.00 Prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro, European University Florence

13.00 - 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 15:20 Ravi S. Mehta - Thus far and no further: The Dangers of Applying the Doctrine of Abuse of Rights to      Fundamental Rights in the EU

15.20 -15.30 break

15.30 - 16.20 John Morijn - A Binding EU Fundamental Rights Charter - Hitting the Ground Running

19.00 Eyjafjallajokull Resistance Movement Party (venue: IUC courtyard)

Saturday, April 24

09.00 - 10.15 Prof. Marise Cremona, European University Institute, Florence - The role of the ECJ in the evolution of the EU as an international actor (by Skype)

10.15 - 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 - 11.50 Prof. Miguel Poiares Maduro, European University Institute Florence

11.50 - 12.00 break

12.00 - 12.30 Presentation of the Croatian Yearbook of European Law & Policy and instructions to authors

Evaluation and closure of the seminar

Excursion - optional

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