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The conference entitled ‘Interpretation of fundamental rights in the practice of the constitutional courts of Central and Eastern Europe’ was organised as part of the Central European Professors’ Network (CEPN) 2021 event by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, the Central European Association for Comparative Law and the Hungarian Association for Comparative Law.

The aim of the online conference was to explore how national ordinary courts, constitutional courts, supreme courts, or international courts, especially the European Court of Human Rights and the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ), apply and interpret fundamental rights in civil cases.

On 5 May 2021, the Information Society Research Institute of the University of Public Service delivered an online workshop to discuss the manuscript ‘The regulation of social media platforms in Hungary’. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the regulation of social media platforms such as Facebook in Hungary and highlights dilemmas that may arise from the modernisation—or the lack thereof—of the platform.

The webinar that was planned and organized as a dissemination event of the research carried out within the framework of the Central European Professors’ Network coordinated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law gathered master and doctoral students as well as teaching staff from two faculties (more than 30 participants) to discuss various relevant issues concerning social media, freedom of expression and its restrictions in democratic societies.

On Thursday, May 20 2021, at 5 pm, a round table ‘Regulation of inappropriate speech on social networks’ is held on the Zoom platform. The convening of the round table was encouraged by the research on the legal regulation of the freedom of expression on social networks carried out within the framework of the Central European Professors’ Network coordinated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law.

The Ministry of Justice and the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law are organising a high-profile international conference on 21 June 2021 in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe.
The conference consists of three thematic panel discussions.

The main organisers of the event are Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, Institute of Justice in Warsaw, Central European Association for Comparative Law, Faculty of Law and Administration University of Opole and Faculty of Canon Law of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.

Summary The ever-growing digital world affects almost every aspect of our lives. A growing number of digital communication platforms, such as social media, blogs and websites, are quickly and easily accessible. We’re beginning to be dependent on them in business, education, personal lives and other areas. Local media now compete at a global level, and […]

The Faculty of Law of the Pan European University, Slovakia, within the Central European Professors´ Network coordinated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, Hungary, has chosen the topic of the material core of the Constitution of the Slovak Republic for both of its dissemination events within the project on Interpretation of the Human Rights.

The Civic Association of Private Law in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University organized the annual conference of private law titled Košice Days of Private Law, within the context of “Protection of human values in private law in the context of modern trends and the ongoing recodification of private law”, which took place on 21-23.4.2021.

The aim of the Conference is to investigate the influence of attitudes of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Serbia (CC) in cases for the protection of human rights guaranteed by the Constitution of Serbia and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).