Thanks to Prof. Fernanda Nicola, Jan could present his book project on Imaginary Factory at the American University, Washington College of Law and get comments from: Daniela Caruso, Professor of law emerita, Boston University School of Law Bojan Bugarič, Professor of law, University of Sheffield School of Law Bill Davies,…

The University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression: Exploring Academic Freedom with Professor David Rabban Join the Chicago Forum for a conversation about academic freedom on college campuses with Professor David Rabban. Rabban is the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair…

LSE Law School, Lunch Seminar Jan Komárek: The imaginary factory: Constitutional scholars and EUrope’s constitutionalism Blurb: The book, whose introductory chapter will be presented at the seminar, examines how constitutional scholars and their ideas on European integration contributed to making constitutionalism the key imaginary during the time of Europe’s deep…

Organised by the Common Law Society in Prague  at the Faculty of Law, Charles University. Komárek’s lecture was on “Právní vědci v digitální sféře: zachrání svět (nebo alespoň Evropu)?”.

Thanks to the kind invitation of Professor Armin von Bogdandy, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Jan Komárek could present there his draft reply to Alexander Somek and Elisabeth Paar, ‘Europe’s political constitution’, which critically engaged some of the arguments that Komárek…

Commentator: J.H.H. Weiler, University Professor, Director of The Jean Monnet Center From the Author: I set aside a non-trivial question of whether a theory of EU constitutional law is even possible (and if so, how such theory might look like).  I assume that the field of scholarly inquiry that is…

Can (and should) constitutional scholars save liberal democracy? Lessons from Europe and the US Jan Komárek (University of Copenhagen) and Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) in conversation Moderated by Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University) Scholars of law and social science face ever-increasing pressure to be useful to society “outside the ivory tower”.

The EUI Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group organises an event featuring a discussion on Professor Jan Komárek’s edited volume, European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia. How can the EU be made legitimate and sustainable through (constitutional) law? And what is the role of constitutional lawyers and their ideas…

On the invitation of Prof. David Singh Grewal, with the Berkeley Law School Law and Political Economy Society, “Network for a New Political Economy,” and the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program.

On the invitation of Paul Linden Retek, the long-time colleague (if from afar) of Jan’s, who contributed to our book and also with a working paper.  …

Presentation contributed to the series of online seminars on “Controversies over Methods in EU Law “, organized by Vincent Réveillère  at the University of Aix-Marseille by the CERIC (Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires) and the LTD (Laboratoire de Théorie du Droit) [pdf].

Organized by the Czech Society for European and Comparative Law, Czech Republic; Discussion around the themes raised in my article “Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship” (2021) 17 European Constitutional Law Review 422 – 441 with colleagues from the Czech Republic.

Jan Komárek presented paper entitled “From legitimacy to ideology: towards ideology critique of European constitutionalism” at the webinar organised jointly by Marco Dani, Marco Goldoni, Agustín J. Menéndez in the course of the preparation of their edited volume, which will discuss Bruce Ackermann’s Revolutionary constitutions: charismatic leadership and the rule…

Jan Komárek presented his forthcoming paper on “Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship” to colleagues at the Center for Global Constitutionalism, part of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

The Working Group is generously funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission via the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Politics and Law and the EUROGOV Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, both at Trinity College Dublin. Meeting was chaired by Stephen Coutts.

Jan Komárek presented our project to the working group on constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno (online).

14 December, The Academic Forum of the New University: Revitalization of EU Constitutionalism, Jan Komárek discussed (with Gráinne de Búrca and Neil Walker) Matej Abelj’s IMAGINE Working Paper No. 9; video from the Forum…

27 November 2020, Jan Komárek shared his experience with the process of working on the application and applying for the ERC Starting Grant with researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences…

11 November, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, Faculty Night Festival (online), Jan Komárek gave a talk on “Freedom and power of the constitutional professoriat: professors as politicians, businessmen and public intellectuals”. Video from the talk.

1 June 2020, EUI Law Department, EU Law Working Group, Jan Komárek presented (online) paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s constitutional imaginary, Joseph Weiler commentator; Video from the seminar. Final version of the paper presented.

20 May 2020, WZB Berlin, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Jan Komárek presented paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s constitutional imaginary …

25 February 2020, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Jan Komárek presented paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s ideology and utopia…

25 June 2019, European Law School, Berlin, Jan Komárek presented  – with Alexandra Kemmerer (Max-Planck-Institut) “Futures Past of European Constitutional Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1990s: A Dialogical Exploration” (programme here – pdf).

26 April 2019, NYU School of Law, Jean Monnet Center – Jan Komárek presented the key ideas of IMAGINE to Emile Noël Fellows.

25 April 2019, Yale Law School, The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project and the European Law Working Group – Jan Komárek presented paper European constitutionalism: Towards an ‘ideology critique’.