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

 

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

We are pleased to announce a second guest lecture of our Lecture series „Contemporary issues of human rights theory and practice. Global, regional and national perspectives”. The Lecture series is organized in association with AHRI.

Prof. Miodrag A. Jovanović will be presenting a topic "Jus Cogens: A Complex Case of Constitutional Reasoning in International Law”. 

Save the date: 20.05.2021 (Thursday), 5:00 PM CET and join us for this intellectual feast!

Lectures are organized on 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. Suggested browsers: Chrome, Firefox or Microsoft Edge. 

Miodrag A. Jovanović (1971) is Full Professor in Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He also teaches at the Legal Methods module of the European Master in Legal Theory, at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. His areas of interest are jurisprudence, philosophy of international law, legal theory of collective rights, political theory of multiculturalism, federalism and legal and political nature of the EU. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He was the 2016 Brandon Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge). His internationally published books include: Constitutionalizing Secession in Federalized States: A Procedural Approach (Eleven International Publishing, 2007); Collective Rights – A Legal Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and The Nature of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019). His most recently co-edited books include: (with Kenneth Einar Himma and Bojan Spaić) Unpacking Normativity – Conceptual, Normative and Descriptive Issues (Hart Publishing, 2018), and (with Tibor Varady) Human Rights in the 21^st Century (Eleven Publishing International and Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 2020)

Jus Cogens: A Complex Case of Constitutional Reasoning in International Law

Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties famously introduced a special class of international legal rules – jus cogens norms – without specifying its content. The paper proceeds by adopting the heuristic framework of constitutionalization of international law, arguing that jus cogens norms contribute to at least two constitutionalist functions – that of limiting the international governance and hierarchizing international legal order. Hence, it is possible to argue that jus cogens reasoning is a specific type of constitutional reasoning. Despite stipulated formal qualities of jus cogens norms, in trying to establish their content state actors are in the situation similar to constitutional adjudicators dealing with underdetermined legal content of a constitutional text. What directs the process of jus cogens reasoning is, thus, the particular nature of the subject-matter with which those norms deal. The last part of the paper provides the analytical reconstruction of the jus cogens constitutional reasoning, focusing on the process of ascertainment, which is to be taken by the community of states. It is argued that what ascertainment requires is, inter alia, resorting to a unique interpretative tool – reverse teleological argument – with the use of which the state actor can extract from the fundamental values of international legal order a class of peremptory norms of international law.  

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 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)

Zaproszenie na Webinarium: Human rights research and education - experiences, good practices and challenges. A seminar in celebration of 30 years of the NCU Human Rights Department

 WEBINARIUM

„Human rights research and education - experiences, good practices and challenges. A seminar in celebration of 30 years of the NCU Human Rights Department”

 26 listopada 2020 

 

 Katedra Praw Człowieka WPiA UMK uprzejmie zaprasza do wzięcia udziału w webinarium pt. „Human rights research and education - experiences, good practices and challenges. A seminar in celebration of 30 years of the NCU Department of Human Rights”. Wydarzenie to odbędzie się w dniu 26 listopada 2020. Odbędzie się ona w języku polskim i (w drugiej części spotkania) w języku angielskim.

Wydarzenie dostępne będzie na platformie BigBlueButton pod adresem https://vc.umk.pl/b/jul-kxx-6ku Konieczne będzie podanie swego imienia i nazwiska. Wcześniejsza rejestracja na tej platformie nie jest jednak wymagana.

https://vc.umk.pl/b/jul-kxx-6ku

 

Szczegóły spotkania:

Strona WPiA: https://www.law.umk.pl/wiadomosci/?id=19673

Wydarzenie na FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/723920128536064