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The Central European Professors’ Network, consisting of four research groups, launched its activities on 1 January 2021 to conduct research on a great variety of issues with regard to seven Central European countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia). The Professors’ Network organises events with the primary aim to draw attention of the European citizens to the topics which are important and significant in connection with the future of Europe, in particular of Central Europe.

The conference 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 to discuss various relevant issues concerning social media, freedom of expression and its restrictions in democratic societies.

Religious diversity is a topical issue across Europe. The lecture focused on the role of religion in societies, the advantages, and disadvantages of diversity, and ask how (secular) society should relate to religion. To answer the question the lecture first gave an overview of the history of freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is one of the most basic fundamental rights, which has a close connection to human dignity.

The webinar by doc. JUDr. David Sehnálek, Ph.D., was conducted online as a part of the Autumn School of Global Legal Skills. The Autumn School is an intensive program focusing on legal reasoning, legal interpretation and argumentation, work with literature, case law, and professional writing.

This publication was written at Masaryk University as part of the projectMUNI/B/1406/2020 “COFOLA 2021” with the support of the SpecificUniversity Research Grant, as provided by the Ministry of Education,Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the year 2021. The conference was supported by the Central-European Professors´Network coordinated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative […]

On the 6th of December 2021, the Ministry of Justice and the Mádl Ferenc Institute for Comparative Law have organised a fourth international conference in the framework of the Conference on the future of Europe. The event took place at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in Budapest, with approximatively 100 participants, among them ambassadors and other personalities.

“Social networks are changing the world. They have radically altered the way their users connect and communicate with each other, as well as the way they access and exchange information. These transformations are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, social networks play an important role in connecting (formerly) socially isolated individuals, offer the possibility […]

The international scientific conference “The Law of the Future – The Future of Law“, took place online on 16 December 2021 under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of the& Pan-European University in Bratislava in collaboration with the Central European Professors’ Network.

The conference was organized within the framework of the Central European Professors´ Network coordinated by the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. The conference was held on 14 December 2021, at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague. The vast majority of citizens, and therefore voters, use social media as a primary source of […]