Conferences 2025

26.-30. 10. 2025 ERASMUS study stay at University of Würzburg, Germany

Attila Vincze - lecture 'Europäisches Verwaltungsrecht in rechtsvergleichender Perspektive' [European Administrative Law from a Comparative Law Perspective]

21. 10. 2025 discussion 'Nestrannosť a autorita súdnej moci' [Impartiality and Authority of the Judiciary], Via Iuris, Bratislava, Slovakia

Attila Vincze, Samuel Spáč - panellists

14. 10. 2025 Research Seminars in Law, Economics, and Empirics, Charles University, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Prague, Czech Republic

David Kosař - lecture 'Who Should Govern the Judiciary?'

25.-27. 9. 2025 ELU-S Annual Conference, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

David Kosař - papers 'Perceptions of Judicial Governance in Europe' and 'Embedding Strategies of the European Apex Courts: Why Court Communication with All Segments of Society Matters'

15.-16. 9. 2025 European Rule of Law Conference 2025 hosted by re:constitution, Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany

Etienne Hanelt - workshop 'Scenario Analysis for Resilience-Building: Lessons from Verfassungsblog’s Judicial Resilience Project' (organised with Friedrichem Zillessenem)

31.8.-3. 9. 2025 UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK

Lukáš Hamřík - paper 'Rule of Law as a New Cleavage in EU Politics? Political Parties’ Responsiveness to the Democratic Backsliding in the European Union'

26.-29.8.2025 ECPR General Conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

David Kosař – chair of panel 'Fixing the Bench'
                      -  paper 'Judicial Overstay' (co-authored with Patrick Leisure)

Ondřej Kadlec - paper 'From Rule- To Data- And Code-Based Judicial Administration: The Digital Transformation of Court Governance in Europe'

Lukáš Hamřík and Attila Vincze – paper 'Interactions Between Formal and Informal Judicial Institutions and Practices in Europe'

28.-30.7. 2025 ICON•S Annual Conference, Brasília, Brasil

Lukáš Hamřík – chair of panel 'Technologies and Changing Global Order'
                        - paper 'The role of Article 2 TEU in the debates on the rule of law situation in the EU: The evidence from the                                          European Parliament'
                       - paper 'Rule of law as a new cleavage in the EU politics? Political parties’ responsiveness to democratic backsliding                             in the European Union'

David Kosař - convenor of Interest Group 'Separation of Powers'
                     - chair of panel 'Judicial Strategies in Democracies Under Pressure'
                     - chair of panel 'Constitutional Abuse Proofing? Democratic Design & Resilience'
                     - paper 'Judicial Appointment Commissions as Fourth Branch Institutions'
                    - paper 'Embedding Strategies of Supranational Courts'

2. 7. 2025 Sociology Colloquium Summer Semester 2025, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

David Kosař - lecture 'Beyond Courts: The Role of Other State-Employed Legal Professions in Making & Failing Democracy'

26.-28. 6. 2025 conference "100 Years of Rule of Law in Daily Life: from the Austrian Administrative Procedure Act to a European Administrative Procedure“, Societas Iuris Publici Europaei, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Attila Vincze - conference co-organisor (together with the Department of Administrative Studies and Administrative Law)

10.4.2025 conference 'Evropský soud pro lidská práva a klimatická změna' [European Court of Human Rights and Climate Change], Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

David Kosař - discussant in the panel 'Klimatická změna a budoucí generace: rostoucí role soudů' [Climate Change and Future Generations: The Growing Role of Courts]

Patrick Casey Leisure, Michal Kovalčík and Viktória Alžbeta Sutórisová - discussant in the panel 'Jurisdikce a aktivní legitimace (locus standi) u klimatických stížností k ESLP' [Jurisdiction and Locus Standi in Climate Complaints to the ECtHR]

3.4.2025 panel discussion 'Revisiting Militant Democracy in East Central Europe', Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Katarína Šipulová - discussant in the panel 'Revisiting Militant Democracy in East Central Europe'

27.-28.2.2025 seminar 'Rule of Law and the Future of Judicial Governance: Digitalisation, Communication, and Extrajudicial Activities', The CEELI Institute, Prague, Czech Republic

Ondřej Kadlec - seminar convenor

David Kosař and Katarína Šipulová - keynote speech

Ondřej Kadlec - chair of the panel 'Extra-Judicial Activities – Judges in Politics, Politicians at Courts, Judges in Academia'

David Kosař - chair of the panel 'Courts and Communication Strategies'