21.-22.9.2026 EUI Writing Workshop for Public Law Scholars in Central and Eastern Europe 2026, EUI, Florence, Italy

David Kosař - workshop co-organiser (together with Silviou Suteu and Katarínou Šipulovou)
                    - mentoring of the section 'Framing a CEE law article'
- moderating of the section 'Navigating the peer review process'

Katarína Šipulová - workshop co-organiser (together with Silviou Suteu and Davidem Kosařem)
                               - mentoring of the section 'Navigating the peer review process'
                               - moderating of the section 'ndertaking CEE legal research in uncertain times'

11.-14.7.2026 conference ICCAL Lab, Villa de Leyva, Colombia

David Kosař - participation in the conference

6.-10.7.2026 conference World Congress of Constitutional Law (WCCL2026), Bógota, Colombia

David Kosař - participation in workshops 'Judicial Independence' and 'Constitutionalism on Trial: Populism and Democracy'

29.6.-1.7.2026 ICON•S Annual Conference, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Mathieu Leloup - convenor of Interest Group 'Separation of Powers'
                           - paper 'Informal mechanisms for harmonization of case law’
                           - paper ‘Intra-branch Separation of Powers: the next frontier?’

Ondřej Kadlec - organization of panel 'Generating Constitutional Authority: Institutions, Publics, and Ideas'
                         - organization and chairing of the panel '(De-)Constitutionalising New Forms of Digital Power: Platforms, Data, and                              Digitalised Justice'
                         - paper 'Managing Judicial Legitimacy: The Role of Grand Chambers in the European Courts'
                         - paper 'Data-Driven Judicial Governance: Power and Perils of Digital Managerialism in Courts'

Katarína Šipulová - discussant in the panel 'Constitutional Reforms and Constitutional Overhauls'
                               - paper 'Limits of Judicial Resistance'
                               - paper 'Judicial Autonomy'

Michal Kovalčík - organization of panel 'Promises and Pitfalls of Judicial Transparency at International and Apex Courts'
                            - paper 'Pitfalls of Judicial Transparency'

David Kosař - participating in 'Interest Group: Informality, Unwritten Law, and Courts' and in 'Interest Group: Separation of Powers'
                      - paper 'Prosecutorial Resilience in Times of Democratic Decline and Renewal'
                      - discussant in 'Book Roundtable - Judging under Constraint: the politics of deference by international courts (Theresa                       Squatrito)'
                      - discussant in the panel 'Constitutional Safeguards against Autocratization'

Patrick Leisure - paper 'On the Evasion of Judicial Term Limits' (co-authored with David Kosař)
                          - paper 'Schools and the European Court of Human Rights'

27.-28.6.2026 ICON•S-PRE & ICON Esprit, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Michal Kovalčík - participating in 'Early Career Scholars Programme in Comparative Constitutional Law'

25.-26.6.2026 seminar 'Current Reflections on EU Anti-Discrimination Law', ERA Conference Centre, Trier, Germany

Attila Vincze - participating in the seminar

18.-19.6.2026 EuConst Symposium 2026 for Early-Career Scholars in European Constitutional Law, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

David Kosař - discussant of a paper 'Courts and the Vacant Seat of the Legislator' (author Anne Bombay)

8.6.2026 conference CZDEMOS4AI, CZDEMOS4AI together with prg.ai, Prague, Czech Republic

Ondřej Kadlec - participating in a workshop "Czech legal AI assistant"

4.-5.6.2026 workshop 'The Legal Complex and Autocratization: Resistance, Cooperation, and Repair', International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain

Katarína Šipulová - paper 'The Role of Judicial Associations within the Rule of Law' (co-authored with Barbara Grabowska-Moroz, Samuel Spáč, and Attila Vincze) NET-ROL project

David Kosař - paper 'Judicial Overstay' (co-authored with Patrick Leisure)

4.6.2026 workshop 'After the Election in Hungary: Is the Judiciary on the Verge of Upheaval?', ELTE Centre for Social Sciences – Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary

Attila Vincze - paper 'Managing courts in competitive authoritarian regimes' (co-authored with Etienne Hanelt)

28.-31.5.2026 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA

Lukáš Hamřík - paper

7.5.2026 round table discussion 'Courts Under Scrutiny: Judges and Democracy', Oxford Global Society (virtual)

Katarína Šipulová - discussant

29.4.2026 forum 'Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group', EUI, Florence, Italy

David Kosař - lesson 'Judicial Overstay' (co-authored with Patrick Leisure)

23.-25.4.2026 conference 'Transition 2.0', Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL), Heidelberg, Germany

David Kosař - discussing in the panel 'Courts' and a paper 'Fixing the Bench'

16.-17.4.2026 workshop with Sigmund Freud Universität, Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

Patrick Leisure - paper 'Schools and the ECtHR'

16.4. 2026 conference The European Court of Human Rights and Sport, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

Michal Kovalčík - discussant to the talk of Jan Exner 'Doping controls and Article 8'

20.3.2026 Comparative Book Workshop – On Constitutional Comparison, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Michal Kovalčík – paper 'Case Selection in Constitutional Theory'

21.1. 2026 book launch event Czech Constitutional Court, Brno, Czech Republic

David Kosař, Katarína Šipulová, Michal Kovalčík - book launch Evropská úmluva o lidských právech. Komentář. 2. vydání [European Convention on Human Rights. Commentary. 2nd edition]

21.1. 2026 discussion seminar 'Judicial Decision-making in Times of Deep Societal Polarization', Supreme Court Court, Brno, Czech Republic

David Kosař - discussant in the panel 'Political and ideological pressures, personal values, and the opinions of judges'

Katarína Šipulová - discussant in the panel 'The influence of public opinion and social media, and media attention in relation to the ongoing legal proceedings'