Conferences 2024

8.-10.7. 2024 conference ICON-S, IE University Law School, Madrid, Spain

Michal Kovalčík - chair of panel 'Actors and Sectors of Legal Reasoning at the European Court of Justice'

Katarína Šipulová - chair of panel 'Judges and Judicial Resilience'
                               - convener of an interest group 'Informality, courts, and politics' (with Joern Dressel)

David Kosař - chair of panel 'Chief Justices and Democratic Decline: Crisis Leadership or Leadership in Crisis?'
                      - chair of panel 'The Foundations of the Separation of Powers'

David Kosař and Mathieu Leloup - discussing in an interest group 'Separation of Powers'

Ondřej Kadlec - paper 'Navigating the Grand Chamber Trilemma: The Role of Extended Formations in the Decision-Making of the European Court of Justice’
                          - paper 'Checks and Balances in challenging environments'

Michal Kovalčík - paper 'Dimensions, Virtues, and Perils of Judicial Transparency’

Patrick Leisure - paper ‘Opening the Black Box: The Role of Oral Hearings at the European Court of Human Rights’

Samuel Spáč - paper ‘The role of informality in the selection of judges’

Katarína Šipulová - paper ‘Opening the Black Box: The Role of Oral Hearings at the European Court of Human Rights’

David Kosař - paper ‘Judicial Underreach: Pros and Cons’
                      - paper ‘The Many Layers of Judicial Overstay’

Mathieu Leloup - paper ‘Structural Rights: individual rights as a foundation of government architecture’

19. – 21. 6. 2024 conference ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, Universidade NOVA, Lisbon, Portugal

Katarína Šipulová and Lukáš Hamřík – chairing panel ‘Governance by Informality in the European Union‘

Lukáš Hamřík – paper ‘Judicial Leadership at the Court of Justice of the European Union’

Etienne Hanelt – paper ‘The political process of the EP to use Art 7’

Katarína Šipulová and Lukáš Hamřík – paper ‘How much of an autocrat do you need to be for the EU to notice?’ (co-authored with Etienne Hanelt, Hubert Smekal)

Lukáš Hamřík – participation in a workshop ‘Representation and Candidacy in the 2024 European Elections’ with a paper ‘In search for an ideal Commission’s President?’

15. - 16. 4. 2024 roundtable 'Monitoring the Independence of Judiciary', CEELI Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Samuel Spáč - discussion on 'Judiciary independence in Central and Eastern Europe'

11. - 13. 4. 2024 conference 'Unwritten Constitutionalism and Public Law in Central and Eastern Europe', ICON's CEE section, Sibiu, Romania

David Kosař - chairing panel 'Concepts' and closing speech

11. 4. 2024 conference "Politologické sympozium 2024: Evropské volby v kontextu 20 let členství Česka v EU", ['Political Science Symposium 2024: European Elections in the Context of 20 Years of Czech EU Membership'], IIPS - International Institute of Political Science, Faculy of Social Studies Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Lukáš Hamřík - paper 'Personalizace politiky a volby do Evropského parlamentu: Má procedura Spitzenkandidát budoucnost?' ['Personalisation of politics and the European elections: does the Spitzenkandidat procedure have a future?']

25. - 27. 3. 2024 workshop 'Sounding the Alarm: Comparing Early Signs of Democratic Recession in Established and Backsliding Democracies' ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Lüneburg, Germany

David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová - paper 'Ring the bell. Judiciaries as anti-autocratization radar systems'

8. 3. 2024 Book launch event, The School of Law, The University of Sheffield, UK

Katarína Šipulová - panel discussant for the book 'Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe' authored by Pablo Castillo-Ortiz

7. 3. 2024 Seminar at iCourts, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

David Kosař - lecture 'Judicial Overstay: Meddling with the Tail End of Judicial Career'

23.-24. 2. 2024 workshop 'Populist Constitutionalism and Populist Communication', Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

Katarína Šipulová - paper 'The light and dark side of judicial resistance'

Katarína Šipulová - roundtable 'Protecting courts against populists'

8.-9. 2. 2024 Conference 'Constitutional Challenges - Judging under Pressure', Hertie School & Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

David Kosař - roundtable 'Democratic Backsliding'

11.-13.1.2024 '2nd Graduate Conference on Constitutional Change', The Universtity of Texas at Austin, US

Michal Kovalčík - 'Judicial Transparency -- How Transparent Should Courts Be in a Different Political and Social Context?'