Program Tuesday 10 December 13h30 | Reception 14h | Local Meanings of EU Law: What’s the point and what methods? Afroditi Marketou (University Paris-Est Creteil) Joana Mendes (University of Luxembourg) Bruno De Witte (University of Maastricht and EUI) Jan Komarek (University of Copenhagen)…

From the conference website: The “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives” research project studies the rise of authoritarian governments in East Central Europe and far right and populist movements across Europe that has sparked concern that the liberal democratic order established…

“The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence”, Madrid, Spain (July 8-10), IE Law School Jan Komárek convened one panel on “The infrastructure of the Digital Public Sphere of European Law” Description: While European law professors have been blogging and tweeting for a while, only recently has…

Panel “Researching the European Court of Justice” Chair: Fernanda Nicola (American University) Discussant: Daniela Caruso (Boston University) Judicial Biography and the History of EU Law by Will Phelan (Trinity College Dublin) “In This Bureaucratic Silence EU Law Dies:” Fieldwork and the (Non)-Practice of EU Law in National Courts by…

Panel discussion on Jiří Přibáň’s Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism (Routledge 2022) was part of the 2022 ICON•S Annual Conference on Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law. Jan Komárek discussed the book with Bojan Bugarič, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Signe Larsen.

Paper considered the relationship between EU law academia and the judiciary, as exemplified by the work of Pierre Pescatore. The conference, organised by the MPI Luxembourg for Procedural Law and the University of Luxembourg, sought to promote engagement with Pesctore’s work, in particular with his construction of the Law of…

Team IMAGINE took part in the Annual Danish European Association- European Community Studies Association Conference 2021, organised by our iCourts colleagues Shai Dothan & Juan A. Mayoral. We presented a panel entitled “Exploring European constitutional imaginary’s OTHER” – details here (pdf). Our panel was kindly chaired by Jakob…

On 29 September Birgit Aasa presents her paper on “Mutual Trust and the Rule of Law” at the conference “The Rule of Law Crisis in Europe – Historical and Procedural Aspects” in Lund. In case you want to know more about the paper and Birgit’s research, you can get…

Exploring European constitutional imaginary‘s OTHER This panel brings together the team of people working on the ERC-funded project IMAGINE – European Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other. We will discuss the key assumptions of the project and specific case studies focused on how the constitutional imaginaries of Europe have…

On Thursday, 10 June Birgit Aasa will present her paper on ‘Mutual Trust and Rule of Law in the EU – an Uneasy Relationship’, the following day Michał Krajewski will talk on ‘The Many Faces of the Rule of Law: The Assets of EU Extra-Judicial Review Mechanisms’. Details…

Due illness, Jan Komárek only delivered (in writing) his paper “From legitimacy to ideology: towards ideology critique of European constitutionalism” at the conference The legitimacy of European constitutional orders: Questioning the revolutionary, establishment and elite pathways, held on 24-28 May 2021 at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento…

14 and 15 November 2019, The Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, Stockholm, conference 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Rule of Law in the European Union (programme-pdf), Jan Komárek presented paper The rule of law and liberal legalism in (the post-communist) Europe). Abstract: 1989 opened the possibility to…

3 and 4 October 2019, Danish European Community Studies Annual Conference,  Aarhus University, Jan Komárek presented paper European constitutionalism: Towards an ‘ideology critique’ and participated in the round table discussion “Crisis Politics and the Judiciary”, together with Christian Joerges (kick-off speech), Hagen Schulz-Forberg (moderator) and Karen Alter and Graham Butler  (other panelists) (programme here).

3-4 June 2019, fEUtures conference, Roskilde University, Trajectories and Imaginaries of European integration – Jan Komárek presented (via Skype) paper Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other (programme here-pdf).