The Struggle for the Rule of Law: Is the EU Fighting a Losing Battle?
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Elisabeth-Herz-Kremenak-Saal
Plenary
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in englischer SpracheHow efficient and practical are the tools of EU legislation for implementing the rule of law in member states? What legal and political measures are needed to guarantee European standards over the long term in those member states that are currently in the grey zone between democracy and autocracy or where corruption is endemic?
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Ph.D. Kim Lane SCHEPPELE
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NY
| Kim Lane Scheppele is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values and served as Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University from 2005 until 2015. She joined the Princeton faculty in 2005 after nearly a decade on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where she was the John J. O'Brien Professor of Comparative Law. Scheppele's work focuses on the intersection of constitutional and international law, particularly in constitutional systems under stress. After 1989, Scheppele studied the emergence of constitutional law in Hungary and Russia, living in both places for extended periods. After 9/11, Scheppele researched the effects of the international "war on terror" on constitutional protections around the world. Her many publications on both post-1989 constitutional transitions and on post-9/11 constitutional challenges have appeared in law reviews, social science journals and multiple languages. In the last two years, she has been a public commentator on the transformation of Hungary from a constitutional-democratic state to one that risks breaching constitutional principles of the European Union. |
Gabor HALMAI
Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, European University Institute, Florence
| Appointed in September 2016 as Professor and Chair of Comparative Constitutional Law, and in January 2018 as Director of Graduate Studies at the Law Department. His primary research interests are comparative constitutional law and international human rights. He has published several books and articles, as well as edited volumes on these topics in English, German and Hungarian. He joined EUI in 2016 after a teaching and research career (at the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, Princeton University in the USA, the European Masters Program in Human Rights and Democratization in Italy) as well as years of professional career as chief advisor to the President of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, member of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency’s Management Board and numerous other civic activities. |
Samuel Agoston MRAZ
Founder and Director, Nézopont Intézet, Budapest; Adjunct Professor, Institute of Political Sciences, Faculty of Law, ELTE - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Dr. Rupert WOLFF
President, Austrian Bar, Vienna
| Dr. Wolff ist seit 1987 als Rechtsanwalt in der Anwaltskanzlei Wolff, Wolff & Wolff in Salzburg tätig. Er war von 1992 - 2009 Delegationsmitglied der österreichischen Delegation zum CCBE. Im Jahr 2001 übte Dr. Wolff die Funktion des Präsidenten des CCBE aus. Seit 2002 war er Vizepräsident des Österreichischen Rechtsanwaltskammertages (Wiederwahl 2005 und 2008), dessen Präsident er seit 24.09.2011 (Wiederwahl 2014) ist. |
Lili BAYER
Reporter, POLITICO, Brussels
| Lili Bayer is POLITICO Europe’s budget reporter. She was previously a correspondent in Budapest, where she covered Hungarian politics and Central Europe’s relationship with Brussels. Lili earned a master’s degree in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service. She grew up in Israel and the United States. |
