EuConst Colloquium

5 October 2018
University of Amsterdam

The editors of the European Constitutional Law Review are happy to invite you to this year's EuConst colloquium. Please find a detailed programme below. 

Date and time: Friday, 5 October 2018, 9.00 - 16.00
Place: University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, Amsterdam, Seminar Room A3.01

Attendance is free, please register by email to publiekrecht-fdr@uva.nl, subject line ‘euconst colloquium’.

Panel I: 09.30-11.00
Chair:  Jan-Herman Reestman

Pola Cebulak (University of Amsterdam), ‘Narrow Authority of the Court of Justice of the EU on the democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary’
Discussant: Mattias Wendel

Ivo Gruev (University of Oxford), ‘Post-communist Institutional Design and its Effects on the Individual Access to Constitutional Adjudication: The Case of the Bulgarian Constitutional Court (BCC)’
Discussant: Monica Claes

Władysław Jóźwicki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań), ‘ECtHR and Opinion 2/13. Response form Strasbourg: A mere confirmation of the delicate status quo or a stir up in hornets’ nest’
Discussant Gerhard van der Schyff

Panel II: 11.15-12.45    
Chair: Tom Eijsbouts

Nik de Boer (University of Amsterdam), ‘Constitutional Review of European Law: A Comparative Analysis of Three Models’ (paper written with Tomi Tuominen)
Discusant: François-Xavier Millet

Kari Ragnarsson (Harvard University), ‘Deference to what? The counter-majoritarian difficulty, socio-economic rights and neoliberalism in post-2008 austerity cases’
Discussant: Thomas Beukers

Jussi Jaakkola (University of Turku), ‘Enhancing Democratic Representation through European Economic Constitution? Regressive Politics of Democratic Inclusion’
Discussant: Jan Komárek

Panel III: 14.00-15.30
Chair: Monica Claes

Michał Krajewski (European University Institute, Florence), ‘The Many-Faced Court: The Values of Participation in Annulment Procedures’ 
Discussant: Jan Komárek

Dana Burchardt (Humboldt University, Berlin), ‘The Relationship between the Law of the European Union and the Law of its Member States - A Norm-Based Conceptual Framework’
Discussant: Leonard Besselink

Vilija Velyvyte (University of Oxford), ‘The Duty of the CJEU to Cooperate with National Courts’
Discussant: Filipe Brito Bastos