Event

The second conference of the Central European Regional Rural Law Conference series, launched by CEDR-HAAL (Hungarian Association of Agricultural Law), was hold on 17 September 2020 in the form of a webinarium with the support of Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law. The webinarium was based on two topics, on one hand, on the transfer of holdings between generations and the succession of agricultural holding/land, on the other hand, on land acquisition by legal persons.

The Ministry of Justice and the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law co-organised the conference, called The Dialogue on the Future of Europe: How to Build a More Effective End Genuinely Strong Union which was held on 21 September 2020 in the Delegation Hall of the Parliament.

The Central European Professors’ network, with the active participation of experts from seven countries (i.e. Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia), organises events with the primary aim of drawing the attention of European citizens to significant topics concerning the future of Europe, with a focus on Central Europe.

Discussions focused on complex legal issues originating from the following recent Polish and German judgments; the 22 December 2016 and 23rd March 2021 judgements of the Court of Appeals in Cracow, the judgement of 19 July 2018 of the German Supreme Court, rulings of the lower instances, and the opinion of the CJEU Advocate General delivered on 23 February 2021.

Religious symbols are present all around us: on state flags, emblems and official insignias, in classrooms, public offices, courtrooms, mass media, hospitals, and public transportation. One could state that wherever there are people, there is a symbol with religious roots. In the past three decades in Serbia, religious symbols—and religion itself—have become an inherent part of the public space. In this case, ‘public space’ should be defined in the broadest of terms to include state and public institutions and all spaces outside of the private sphere and the inner domain of religious organisations.

The three main lines of thought regarding freedom of expression include (1) recognition of truth as a prerequisite to social development, (2) freedom of expression as an instrument of democratic self-government, and (3) freedom of speech as a value in itself. The speaker further elaborated on the concept of ‘speech’, especially in the digital/online context.

The event was attended by the staff members and the students of the Faculty of Educational Studies. The lecture was tailored in such a way as to render legal issues understandable to the audience who was not composed of lawyers. Since participants of the webinar deal with family issues in a pedagogical context, this is why legal considerations were presented in a broader cultural context so as to reveal their social background. The aim was to make the issues raised in the webinar more accessible.

The International Scientific Conference “The impact of digital platforms and social media on freedom of expression and pluralism – in general terms” took place in Warsaw, which was organised within the Central European Professors’ Network 2021 by the Institute of Justice in Warsaw, in cooperation with the Ferenc Madl Institute of Comparative Law and the European Association for Comparative Law.

On 28 May 2021, the International Scientific Conference entitled “Religious symbols in the public sphere in the legal orders of Central and Eastern European countries” took place in Warsaw, which was organised within the Central European Professors’ Network 2021 by the Institute of Justice in Warsaw, in cooperation with the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law and the European Association for Comparative Law.

The event was organized by the Institute of Justice, Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law, Central European Comparative Law Association and the Scientific Circle of Criminal Procedure of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.

The Oxford Debate was organized within the framework of the Central European Professors’ Network 2021.

The International Scientific Conference “The impact of digital platforms and social media on freedom of expression and pluralism – view of young researchers” took place in Warsaw, which was organised within the Central European Professors’ Network 2021 by the Scientific Circle of Criminal Procedure of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw and the Institute of Justice in Warsaw, in cooperation with the Ferenc Madl Institute of Comparative Law and the European Association for Comparative Law.