About the Lecture Series
NCU Human
Rights Department is happy to announce a launch of a lecture series „Contemporary
issues of human rights theory and practice. Global, regional and national
perspectives”.
For the last decades, human rights law have been developing and consolidating.
Today, IHRL seems to have reached a „critical
point” that
raises new challenges and problems on a global, regional and national scale. Is
IHRL a victim of its own success, does fragmentation require harmonization?
Why, and how human rights are being walked back in some European countries?
These are just some of the question will try to explore.
Our goal is to
host one lecture each month, featuring academics, practitioners of international
law from governmental service, international organizations and private
practice. We welcome all students, academics, practitioners, and civil society.
We hope to engage into a meaningful discussion.
The series
will be organized online via a BigBlueButton platform in a dedicated virtual
room accessible at: https://vc.umk.pl/b/jul-x4e-92m. No prior registration is required to join.
Information about future lectures will be posted on
our Fb (https://www.facebook.com/KatedraPrawCzlowiekaUMK), as well as on Nicolaus Copernicus University
Faculty of Law and Administration webpage (https://www.law.umk.pl/en/).
Organising
Committee:
Prof.
dr hab. Bożena Gronowska
Dr
hab. Agnieszka Bień-Kacała, prof. UMK
Dr
Julia Kapelańska-Pręgowska
Dr
Piotr Sadowski
The first guest lecture will take place on 25
March, 5 PM
CET.
About the Lecture
„Privatization
of Hungarian Universities as a threat to academic freedom”.
In this
lecture, I address the reforms that aim at transforming the majority of
Hungarian public universities into "public interest asset management
foundation performing public duty". Regardless of the legal label we
attach, these universities become private universities directed by funds that
are severely influenced by the governing party, Fidesz. I will present the
discrepancy between the arguments of the government and reality, the
decision-making process that completely disregards any standards imaginable,
and how disagreement and resistance have been expressed.
We
encourage to read a recent post of Prof. Tímea Drinóczi - https://verfassungsblog.de/loyalty-opportunism-and-fear/.
About the Speaker
Tímea Drinóczi is a Full Professor at the Department of Constitutional Law, Faculty of
Law, University of Pécs.
She will be a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, Federal University of
Minas Gerais, Brazil. She served as a Professor at the Department of Public
Law, Kenyatta University School of Law, Kenya in 2018-2019, has been a visiting
professor in law schools in Plzen, Brno, Cologne, Graz, Istanbul, and Osijek,
and lectured in several conferences all over Europe. Tímea is the author or
co-author and editor or co-editor of several books and many articles and book
chapters. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Polish and Hungarian
journals, the corresponding editor of the Vienna Journal on International
Constitutional Law, member of the Hungarian Constitutional Law Association, the
Advisory Board of the International Association of Legislation, the International
Society of Public Law, and research groups of the IACL. She also advises OSCE
ODIHR in legislative and constitutional matters.
Tímea’s most important books in
English are:
her newest forthcoming book at
Routledge is co-authored with Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
and entitled Illiberal Constitutionalism in Poland and Hungary: The
Deterioration of Democracy, Misuse of Human Rights and Abuse of the Rule of
Law;
their edited book is Rule of Law, Common Values and
Illiberal Constitutionalism. Poland and Hungary within the European Union
published by Routlegde last year;
Timea’s most important journal article in English is
Constitutional Identity in Europe: The Identity of the
Constitution. A Regional Approach (German
Law Journal, 2020)
and the ones co-authored with Agnieszka Bień-Kacała are
COVID-19 in Hungary and Poland: extraordinary situation
and illiberal constitutionalism (The
Theory and Practice of Legislation, 2020)
Illiberal Constitutionalism: The Case of Hungary and
Poland (German Law
Journal, 2019)
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