Jean Monnet seminar

Advanced Issues of European Law

 

4th session, February 26 - March 5, 2006

 

European Law in Pre-accession Period:
Implementation, Effectiveness and Legal Culture

Organised by: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, Department of European Public Law, with support of the European Commission

Venue: IUC Dubrovnik

Topics and Speakers

• Free trade and Internal Market Law

  • Don Regan (University of Michigan Law School)
  • Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford)
  • Sigmar Stadlmeier (University of Linz, Faculty of Law): Contrary to what has previously been decided: The Way to Keck; The External Dimension of the Internal Market: A Case Study

• Democracy and Legitimacy in Non-Unitary Systems

  • Jo Shaw  (University of Edinburgh Law School)
  • Daniel Halberstam (University of Michigan Law School)
  • Branko Smerdel (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law)

• EU Law in Post-communist States Before and After Accession

  • Zdenek Kühn (Charles University Prague): Silent Ratification and Non-Ratification with Cacophony: European Constitutional Treaty in Slovakia and the Czech Republic; Making and Unmaking European Constitutionalism: first constitutional decisions in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
  • Christophe Hillion (University of Leiden)
  • Siniša Rodin (University of Zagreb Faculty of Law): So Shall it be Written, so Shall it be Undone! Harmonization of Gender Equality Law and its Judicial Undoing in Croatia
  • Steven Blockmans (T.M.C. Asser Institute, the Hague)

• European Court of Justice after the "Big Bang"- trends and developments

  • Marko Ilešić (Judge at the European Court of Justice
  • Felix Ronkes Agerbeek (Legal Advisor at the ECJ): The Need for Speed: instruments to shorten the duration of proceedings at the ECJ and how they may influence the development of Community law
  • Saša Sever (Referendaire at the ECJ)

• Young Researchers' Forum [Paper Abstracts]

Group A - European Legal Order

• Michal Bobek: A New or a Non-Existent Legal Order?
  Application of European Law in the Czech Republic: Some (Early) Experience
• Marie-Pierre Granger: State as successful litigants before the European Court of Justice: lessons from the ‘repeat-players’ in European litigation
• Iavor Rangelov: EU Conditionality and Transitional Justice in the Western Balkans

Group B - Free Trade

• Tamara Perišin: Free Movement of Goods and Protection of Values in the EU
• John Morijn: The  impact   of   GATS  (case  law)  on  EC   education   policy: ‘Gambling’ with the right to education?
• Andreas Auer: Legal implication of accession to the European Union on geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs

Group C - The Third Pillar

• Alicia Hinarejos Parga: The European Constitution and the Jurisdiction of the ECJ under the Third Pillar
• Maja Brkan: CFSP in the era of “multi-level constitutionalism” –
  Exploring the legal limits of EU competences in CFSP
• Zlata Đurđević: European Arrest Warrant: Implementation and Perspectives

Group D - Equality

• Barbara Havelkova: Effectiveness of the Transposed EU Equality Law in the Czech Republic
• Snježana Vasiljević: Implementation of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Croatia
• Iva Perin: EU Law Applicable to Divorce and Croatian Private International Law

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