A Europe of Rights: the EU and the ECHR

When?

Friday 8 June 2012, 17:00 to Saturday 9 June 2012, 18:30

Where?

32MS01, School of Management building

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Speaker:

Noreen O'Meara

Attendees must confirm their attendance to the event. Friday evening is free. 

All external attendees must pay £30 to attend on the Saturday – please follow this link to the booking form is here 

Surrey students are free to attend. 

Draft Programme

Friday, 8 June 2012
17:00 Registration & Wine Reception.
18:00 Key Note Address - Judge Dean Spielmann (European Court of Human Rights)

Saturday, 9 June 2012
9:30-11:30
Panel Session 1: INSTITUTIONS
Vassilis P. Tzevelekos (University of Hull): When Elephants Fight it is the Grass that Suffers: “Hegemonic Struggle”  in Europe and its Side-Effects for International Law
Paul Gragl (University of Graz, Austria): Inter-Party Cases after Accession and the Autonomy of European Union Law
Dr. Andrés Delgado Casteleiro (University of Durham): The EU and its Member States in Strasbourg: How will the co-respondent mechanism work in practice?
Lauri Bode-Kirchhoff (University of Hamburg; Max Plank Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg): Why the road from Luxembourg to Strasbourg leads through Venice - The Venice Commission as a link between the EU and the ECHR

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break

11:45-13:15 Panel Session 2: THEORY
Carina Alcoberro Llivina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): The national constitutional identity clause: introducing a margin of appreciation doctrine into EU law?
Bilyana Petkova (University of Kent at Brussels): The Role of Majoritarian Activism in Precedent Formation at the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights.  What legitimacy models for what courts?
Dr Catherine Van de Heyning, (Europa Instituut, University of Leiden): Coherence and Progress in the European protection of fundamental rights; friends or feuds?

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Panel Session 3: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS I
Alexandros-Ioannis Kargopoulos (Hellenic National School of Judges, Thessaloniki): The presumption of equivalent protection rebutted: the right to a fair trial in criminal proceedings and ne bis in idem in the ECHR and EU law
Wanni Teo (University of Reading): Individual rights in the external dimension of the EU’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: the case of international transfers of personal data
Elsbeth Beumer (Europa Instituut, University of Leiden): The interplay between Article 6 ECHR & Article 47 Charter and the EU competition enforcement system

15:45-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Panel Session 4: FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS II
Amy Ludlow (University of Cambridge): Prison Officer Strike Action:
“The mouth-watering possibility of a high noon conflict” between the European Courts?
Dr Francesca Ippolito (University of Cagliari) and Dr Samantha Velluti (University of Lincoln): The relationship between the CJEU and ECtHR: the case of asylum
Dr Panos Kapotas (London School of Economics): “From Strasbourg to Luxembourg and back again: Positive action as ‘full equality’ in the European legal order”

17:30-18:30 Wine Reception