środa, 17 marca 2021

Zaproszenie na pierwsze spotkanie w ramach cyklu wykładów „Contemporary issues of human rights theory and practice. Global, regional and national perspectives”

 



Zaproszenie na pierwsze spotkanie w ramach cyklu wykładów „Contemporary issues of human rights theory and practice. Global, regional and national perspectives” organizowanego przez Katedrę Praw Człowieka UMK.
25.03 o 17.00

About the Lecture Series

 

NCU Human Rights Department is happy to announce a launch of a lecture seriesContemporary 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 pointthat 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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