14 November 2012: Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair Roundtable

"The European Union and the crisis: Amending or just completing the Lisbon Treaty?"
Sala Armi, via Zamboni, 22
Chair: Lucia Serena Rossi, University of Bologna

The rountable is being organised in the framework of the Ad Personam Jean Monnet Chair "The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on European Integration".

16.00h Welcoming and Opening Speech: Giovanni Luchetti, Director of the Law Department

Leonard Besselink, University of Amsterdam
“Parameters of Constitutional Development”

Sir Francis Jacobs, King’s College London
“The Role of the Court of Justice in the Light of the Lisbon Treaty”

Miguel Poiares Maduro, European University Institute
“From a Euro Crisis to a European Crisis: Democratic Dimensions of the Fiscal and Economic Crisis”

Alison McDonnell, University of Leiden
“Flexibility, Solidarity and the Euro Crisis: Where Do Principles Fit In?”

18.30h Debate

15 November 2012: International Conference

"The Lisbon Treaty: A quasi-constitutional framework to be revised?"

The Conference is intended to draw the preliminary conclusions from the research activities conducted within the Working Group VII “The quasi-constitutional nature of the Lisbon Treaty” of the LISBOAN Erasmus Academic Network.

9.00h Morning Session
Chair: Andrea Biondi, King’s College London

Paul Luif, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
“The division of power/competences between the EU and the Member States. What can we learn from preemption in the United States?”

Thomas Christiansen, University of Maastricht
“Implementing Treaty Change: Comitology and Delegated Acts after the Lisbon Treaty”

Jan Wouters, University of Leuven
“Revisiting the Lisbon Treaty’s Constitutional Design of EU External Relations”

Michele Comelli, Istituto Affari Internazionali (Rome)
“The European Neighbourhood Policy after the 2011 Revision and its Future Prospects”

Inge Govaere, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Legal Studies – Ghent University
“Capturing and Defending the European Interest in EU External Relations”

Debate

14.30h Afternoon Session
Chairman: Paolo Mengozzi, Advocate General – European Court of Justice

Laurent Pech, National University of Ireland
“The Rule of Law in the EU after Lisbon”

Federico Casolari, University of Bologna
“The New Life of the Loyalty Principle”

Jean-Paul Jacqué, University of Strasbourg
“The Protection of Fundamental Rights”

Peter Van Elsuwege, University of Gent
“The Phenomenon of Reverse Discrimination: An Anomaly in the European Constitutional Order?”

Giacomo Di Federico, University of Bologna
“Access to Health Care in the post-Lisbon Era and the Genuine Enjoyment of EU citizens’ rights”

Debate

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If you would like to attend this event please contact  Federico Casolari.