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- Published: 05 December 2021

The Católica | Lisbon School of Law of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) and MEDEL - Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés organise the international conference "Rule of Law in Europe", to be held on 9 and 10 December 2021 at the Lisbon Campus of UCP.
(all times indicated in the program are in Lisbon time - for CET please consider one hour more)
You can also watch the livestream on JustiçaTV website (link below)
Estado de Direito na Europa — MEDEL / ASJP
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https://www.justicatv.com/2018/directo.php?id=1363
PROGRAM OF THE CONFERENCE
9.Dec.2021
14.30 Opening session
- Isabel Capeloa Gil, Rector, UCP
- Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, UCP Lisbon
- Filipe Marques, President of MEDEL
- Didier Reynders, European Commissioner of Justice
15.00- Structural problems of the independence of the Judiciary in Europe
Moderator: Manuel Soares, President of ASJP - Portuguese Judges Association
- João Caupers, Lisbon Nova University, President of the Portuguese Constitutional Court
- Laurent Pech, Middlesex University, London
- Adam Bodnar, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Polish Ombudsman (2015-2021)
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 The CJEU case law on judicial independence and the relationship between national judges and the CJEU
Moderator: Monika Frackowiak, Judge at Poznan Court, Poland, MEDEL board member
- Marc de Werd, University of Amsterdam, Judge at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal
- Paulo Mota Pinto, Coimbra University, Judge of the Portuguese Constitutional Court (1998-2007)
- Miguel Poiares Maduro, UCP Lisbon, Advocate General at the CJUE (2003-2009)
10.Dec.2021
9.30 The ECHR case law on judicial independence and the relationship between national judges and the ECHR
Moderator and speaker:
- Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, UCP Lisbon , Judge at the ECHR (2011-2020)
- Francesco Viganò, Università Bocconi, Milano, Judge at the Italian Constitutional Court
- András Sajó, Central European University, Judge at the ECHR (2009-2017)
- Anke Eilers, Presiding Judge at the Cologne Court of Appeal, Germany, President-elect of the CCJE - Consultative Council of European Judges
- Yves Haeck, Ghent University, Belgium
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 The future lines of action of the European institutions
Moderator: Filipe Marques, MEDEL
- Paulo Rangel, UCP Porto, Member of the European Parliament
- José Manuel Pureza, University of Coimbra, Member of the Portuguese Parliament
- Patrícia Fragoso Martins, UCP Lisbon
- John Morijn, University of Groningen
13.00 Lunch break
14.30 The position of the Public Prosecutor's Office, the need for European rules on internal/external independence
Moderator: Adão Carvalho, President of SMMP - Portuguese Prosecutors Union
- Dolores Delgado, General Prosecutor of Spain
- Antonio Vercher Noguera, President of the CCPE - Consultative Council of European Prosecutors
- Paulo Dá Mesquita, Judge at the Tribunal de Contas/ Member of the Consultative Council of the Portuguese General Prosecutor (2011-2017)
16:00 Closing
- Jorge Pereira da Silva, Dean of the Católica Lisbon Law School
- Adão Carvalho, President of SMMP
- Manuel Soares, President of ASJP
- Mariarosaria Guglielmi, European Delegated Prosecutor in Rome, Vice-President of MEDEL
- Francisca Van Dunem, Minister of Justice of Portugal
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You can download the programme (EN) HERE
You can download the programme (PT) HERE