A day-long workshop on “The State of Liberal Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,” co-hosted by Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, director, HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, and Eszter Bodnár, co-chair, ICON-S Central and Eastern European Chapter. The program will be held on December 6, 2018, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4, in the Institute for Legal Studies Meeting Room (wing T ground floor 0.25). The program will feature the presentation and discussion of country reports in the annual I-CONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law. 

Presentation

A day-long workshop on “The State of Liberal Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe,” co-hosted by Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz, director, HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, and Eszter Bodnár, co-chair, ICON-S Central and Eastern European Chapter. The program will be held on December 6, 2018, at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4, in the Institute for Legal Studies Meeting Room (wing T ground floor 0.25). The program will feature the presentation and discussion of country reports in the annual I-CONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law. 

Programme

December 6, 2018 (Thursday)

9.30–9.45 Welcome addresses

• Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz director, HAS Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies
• Eszter Bodnár co-chair, ICON-S Central and Eastern European Chapter

9.45–10.40 Keynote speeches

• 9:45-10:15  Zoltán Szente research chair, HAS CSS Institute for Legal Studies
• 10:15-10:40 Šimon Drugda PhD candidate, Copenhagen University:I∙CONnect-Clough Center Global Review of Constitutional Law: The Project: methodology, challenges, experiences

10.40–11.00 Coffee break

11.00–13.00 Morning session

• 11:00-11:15 Czech Republic (Maxim Tomoszek senior lecturer, Palacky University)
• 11:15-11:30 Hungary (Eszter Bodnár senior lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University; Zoltán Pozsár-Szentmiklósy senior lecturer, Eötvös Loránd University)
• 11:30-11:45 Poland (Magdalena Konopacka associate professor, University of Gdansk)
• 11:45-12:00 Slovakia (Tomáš Ľalík associate professor, Comenius University; Kamil Baraník assistant professor, Comenius University and Šimon Drugda PhD candidate, Copenhagen University)
• 12:00-13:00 Discussion

13.00–13.45 Buffet lunch

13.45–16.00 Afternoon session

• 13:45-14:00 Albania (Adea Pirdeni lecturer, University of Tirana)
• 14:00-14:15 Bosnia and Herzegovina (Maja Sahadzic researcher, University of Antwerp)
• 14:15-14:30 Bulgaria (Ivo Gruev, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Law Faculty, University of Oxford)
• 14:30-14:45 Romania (Bianca Gutan professor, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu; Elena Simina Tănăsescu professor, Bucharest University) (Skype)
• 14:45-15:00 Slovenia (Katarina Vatovec assistant lecturer, New University, adviser, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia; Matej Avbelj professor New University)
• 15:00-16:00 Discussion

Workshop venue

Hungarian Academy of Sciences Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies; 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán utca 4. Institute for Legal Studies Meeting Room (wing T ground floor 0.25)

Participation: please register by 25 November 2018 at Szontagh.VeronikaAnna@tk.mta.hu