Rule of Law and the People of Europe

Rule of Law and the People of Europe

The European Union's Rule of Law actions to address national-level developments in Hungary and Poland gave a new impetus to the significance of the Rule of Law for the European project, while at the same time laying bare Rule of Law's limitations not only in national, but also supranational contexts. The humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean, and the external action deviating from human rights in asylum and migration face no Rule of Law guarantees being activated. The EU emerges as a black hole of accountability as a result. The question that arises is how far the Rule of Law could be appealed to in the 21st century in the absence of basic democratic accountability and what is the role of the people - historically, and also today, to make the EU a Rule of Law abiding constitutional system.

Speakers

Prof. Manuela Boatcă, Freiburg

Prof. Boatcă is Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Creolising the Modern, which she wrote with Anca Parvulescu was published by Cornell in 2022 and received a handful of prizes.

Dr. Sarah Ganty, Ghent and Yale

Dr Sarah Ganty is an SJD candidate at Yale Law School and FWO senior research fellow at Ghent Faculty of Law. Her monograph Critique d'une intégration choisie was published by Larcier in 2021.

Prof. Dimitry V. Kochenov, CEU and Chicago

Prof. Kochenov heads Rule of Law research at CEU Democracy Insittute in Budapest, teaches at CEU Legal Studies in Vienna and is Malyi Fellow at Chicago Law School this semester. His Citizenship published by MIT Press in 2019 has been translated into several languages and reviewed in the New York Review.

After the event there will be a light lunch and we welcome all to join.