programme - Jean Monnet Inter

Jean Monnet Inter-­‐University Centre Opatija www.excellence.com.hr CONFERENCE
Legal Culture in Transition
Supranational and International Law in National Courts
CONFERENCE CONVENORS N ADA B ODIROGA V UKOBRAT J EAN M ONNET C HAIR U NIVERSITY O F R IJEKA S INIŠA R ODIN J EAN M ONNET C HAIR U NIVERSITY O F Z AGREB
Jean Monnet Inter-University Centre of Excellence
Opatija, June 17-18, 2011 LEGAL CULTURE IN TRANSITION, JUNE 17-­‐18, 2011 FRIDAY 9.00 Opening Nada Bodiroga Vukobrat, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Rijeka
Siniša Rodin, Jean Monnet Chair, University of Zagreb
Representative of the Hanns Seidel Stiftung
Representative of the IRZ
Ivana Goranić, Croatian Judicial Academy
Ivo Dujmić, Mayor of Opatija
Pero Lučin, Rector of the University of Rijeka
Aleksa Bjeliš, Rector of the University of Zagreb
Bernd Fisher, Ambassador of FR Germany to Croatia
Jasna Omejec, President of the Constitutional Court of Croatia
9.45 Keynote Speaker Bernd Baron von Maydell – University Bonn
Neue Aufgaben für das Recht in einer globalen Welt
10.30 COFFEE BREAK 11.00 Session 1 – Interpretation and Legal Culture Michal Bobek – European University Institute, Florence
The Importance of Being a Textualist: Central European Judicial History and its Lasting
Impact on Domestic Application of EU Law
Siniša Rodin – University of Zagreb
State, Market, Functionalism - and Transcendental Nonsense
Adam Lazowski – University of Westminster
Realism, Impressionism or Abstraction? Interpretation of EU Law by Polish Courts
12.15 BREAK 2 LEGAL CULTURE IN TRANSITION, JUNE 17-­‐18, 2011 3 12.30 Session 2 – EU Law and National Legal Traditions Zdenek Kühn – Charles University Praha
EU Law Before Czech High Courts
Matej Avbelj – Graduate School of Government and European Studies,
Kranj
Overcoming the World in Between - the Case of Slovenia
Boško Tripković – European University Institute, Florence
Born in the SFRJ: Serbian Constitutional Court, Deference and Transformative Potential
of International Law
13.30 LUNCH BREAK 15.00 Session 3 – Comparative Law Perspective Alexander Graser – University of Regensburg
Studying Legal Transplants - a Comparative Law Perspective on the Reception of Law
Gian Antonio Benacchio – University of Trento and Sandra Winkler
University of Rijeka
The Europeanisation of Law: Imposition or Natural Development of Legal Models?
Meliha Povlakić – University of Sarajevo
Reception, Legal Transplants, Legal Irritants - the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
16.15 BREAK 16.30 Session 4 – European Human Rights Convention Rainer Arnold – University of Regensburg
Europeanisation of Protection of Fundamental Rights
Vesna Tomljenović – University of Rijeka
How to Reconcile Decline of International Jurisdiction and Article 6 of the ECHR - is the
Introduction of forum necesitatis in to the European Inernational Procedural law a right
Answer?
Vesna Crnić Grotić – University of Rijeka
Application Ratione Temporis of the European Human Rights Convention
17.45 END OF DAY 1 20.00 DINNER LEGAL CULTURE IN TRANSITION, JUNE 17-­‐18, 2011 4 SATURDAY 9.00 Session 5 – Private Law Perspective Tatjana Josipović – University of Zagreb
Exercise of civil law claims based on misapplication of EU law by national courts –
impact of principles of effectiveness and equivalence on application of national law
Stefano Troiano – University of Verona
The Future of European Contract Law and the Role of National Courts
Edita Čulinović-Herc – University of Rijeka
Alternative Investment Funds and their Managers Under EU Regulatory Pressure
Fabio Padovini – University of Trieste
Gerichtliche Feststellung von Erben: Neue Europäische Erbrechtliche Regelungen
Nada Bodiroga-Vukobrat and Adrijana Martinović – University of Rijeka
Migrant Workers and Social Benefits before National Courts in the Light of Soft Law and
OMC
11. 00 COFFEE BREAK 11.30 Keynote Speech Branko Hrvatin, President of the Supreme Court of Croatia
Vassilios Skouris, President of the European Court of Justice
13.00 LUNCH BREAK Lunch Keynote – Paul Vandoren, Head of Delegation of the EU to Croatia
14. 30 Session 6 – Interpretation, Harmonization and Procedural Aspects Marko Ilešič – Judge at the European Court of Justice
Does ECJ Really Interpret only EU Law?
Jasnica Garašić – University of Zagreb
LEGAL CULTURE IN TRANSITION, JUNE 17-­‐18, 2011 5 Basic Directions of Unification and Harmonization in European Civil Procedural Law
Tamara Ćapeta – University of Zagreb
Should the appeal against the reference for preliminary ruling be allowed?
Eduard Kunštek – University of Rijeka
Annex G to the Agreement on the Former Yugoslavia Succession Issues
16.00 – BREAK 16.15 Session 6 – Continued Vesna Rijavec – University of Maribor
Transborder Enforcement in the EU Law
Vesna Lazić – Asser Institute, the Hague
The Commission’s Proposal to Amend EC Jurisdiction Regulation: Emphasis on
Revising the Arbitration-Exception
Ana Poščić – University of Rijeka
The Council Regulation no. 1/2003 on the Implementation of the Rules on Competition –
Experiences from the New Member States
Mario Jelušić – Judge, Croatian Constitutional Court
Croatian Legal System Between National and Supranational Law
END OF DAY 2 AND OF THE CONFERENCE