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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2021
13.30-13.40 – Findings from the Reconnect Project – Prof. Jan Wouters (KU Leuven)
Co-organized with CEU Democracy Institute's Probing Democracy conference
13.40-14.30 – Book launch event (András Sajó, Ruling by Cheating, CUP 2021)
Co-organized with CEU Democracy Institute's Probing Democracy conference
Prof. Günter Frankenberg (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt); Dr Michał Matlak (managing editor, Review of Democracy); Prof. Andras Sajó (CEU Department of Legal Studies/CEU Democracy Institute); Prof. Julie Smith, Baroness Smith of Newnham (Cambridge University); Prof. Maciej Taborowski (Warsaw University/Deputy Ombudsman of Poland) [online]; Prof. Jan Wouters (KU Leuven)
14.30-15.00 BREAK
15.00-16.15 - Restoring the Rule of Law; moderator: Prof. Laurent Pech (Middlesex and CEU Democracy Institute)
Prof. Wojciech Sadurski (University of Sydney) [online]; Prof. Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) [online]; Eleanor Sharpston QC [online]
16.15-16.30 BREAK
16.30-18.00 - Enforcing the Rule of Law; moderator: Prof. Renata Uitz (CEU Department of Legal Studies/CEU Democracy Institute)
Prof. Sarah Ganty (Yale Law School/CEU/Ghent University); Dr Barbara Grabowska-Moroz (CEU Democracy Institute); Mathieu Leloup (University of Antwerp and Masaryk University, Brno); Prof. Laurent Pech (Middlesex University London/CEU Democracy Institute); Dean Pál Sonnevend (ELTE Law, Budapest)
19.30–22.00 Speakers’ DINNER
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2021
9.00-10.00 Keynote speech by Dean Adam Bodnar (SWPS University, Warsaw) [online]; Prof. Jan Wouters (moderator); Prof. Petra Bárd (chair, online)
10.00-10.30 BREAK
10.30-12.15 - Contextualizing the Rule of Law; moderator: Prof. Violeta Beširević (Union Law School, Belgrade/CEU Democracy Institute)
Dr Elena Basheska (CEU Democracy Institute); Dr Joelle Grogan (Middlesex University London) [online]; Prof. John Morijn (Commissioner of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights/University of Groningen) [online]; Prof. Roman Petrov (Kyïv-Mohyla Academy) [online]; Małgorzata Szuleka (Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Warsaw)
12.15-13.30 LUNCH with the presentation of the SIEPS Rule of Law report by L. Pech and D. Kochenov
13.30-15.15 - Relegitimizing the Rule of Law; moderator: Dr Julinda Bequiraj (Bingham Centre)
Prof. Paul Blokker (University of Bologna); Prof. András Jakab (University of Salzburg); Prof. Tomasz Koncewicz (University of Gdańsk); Dr Rafał Mańko (University of Amsterdam); Dr Zuzana Vikarska (Masaryk University, Brno)
15.30 - Closed meeting of RECONNECT partners