Invited Lectures, Conferences, Workshops, and Other Public Appearances ...
... related to my research. Non-research events are presented here.Workshops, Discussion Groups, and Seminars
Events I was Invited to Attend (without presenting my own paper)
Forthcoming
10 September 2010, Durham University, invited paper "Is the Citizen at the Heart of the National Courts' Lisbon Judgments?" to be presented at the workshop "In the Name of the Citizen?", part of the seminar series "Empowerment and Disempowerment of the European Citizen".
26 June 2010, Europa Institute of Leiden University, invited lecture at the 49th meeting of the British Institute for International and Comparative Law in London and the Europa Institute of Leiden University
20 - 21 May 2010, University of Illinois College of Law, Fifth Annual Comparative Law Works in Progress Workshop, paper "Judicial Lawmaking and Precedent in Supreme Courts" selected for discussion (more information on the workshop available here [pdf])
Invited Lectures
18 - 25 April 2010, lecturing within the course Advanced Issues of European Law - 8th session, Market Freedoms and Fundamental Rights in the Enlarging European Union, Dubrovnik (Croatia)
23 April 2009, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, guest lecture, "Judicial Precedent and Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union"
11 March 2009, Centre for European Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, luncheon seminar, "Precedent in European Law: A Doctrine without a Theory?"
10 May 2007, Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Kdo je nejvyšší? Evropské soudy a Eurozatykač v laboratoři ústavního pluralismu [Who is the Supreme? European Courts and the European Arrest Warrant in the Laboratory of Constitutional Pluralism]
3 April 2007, Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, lecture "European Constitutionalism and the European Arrest Warrant"
6 December 2006, University of Lund, Faculty of Law, lecture "'In the Court We Trust.' But Should We?"
Conferences
19 November 2009, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, conference "Dny práva", presentation "Soudcovský minimalismus a řízení o souladu mezinárodních smluv s ústavním pořádkem [Judicial Minimalism and Constitutional Review of International Treaties]"
20-21 March 2009, Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, conference "Constitutional Pluralism in the European Union and Beyond," paper "Judicial Precedent and European Constitutional Pluralism: How the Two Relate?"
8 December 2008, Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, conference "Challenges for new EU Member States: Discussion from a national perspective," presentation "'So long as ... we like it.' The Czech Constitutional Court's ruling on the Lisbon Treaty"
1-3 September 2008, UACES Annual Conference, Edinburgh, "Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2008. Rethinking the European Union," 2 papers: "'Quality' of the Court of Justice’s Reasoning: What It Is and How It Can Be Measured" (panel "'Quality' in the Functioning and Performance of the European Judiciary") and "Uniformity and the Central Courts: The United States and the European Union"(panel "Questioning Uniformity")
3-4 July 2008, The Institute of European Law at Birmingham Law School, conference "The Next 50 Years: The Future of European Law & Policy," paper "The Future of the ECJ’s Precedent in a Comparative Perspective"
9-10 April 2008, Graduate Law Conference at Osgoode Hall Law School, QUO VADIS CONSTITUTION?: The Boundaries of Modern Law, paper "Judicial Precedent in Constitutional Pluralism: The United States and the European Union Compared"
21-22 April 2008, Legal Education Enhancement Programme, association Všehrd and Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, conference Reforma právnického vzdilávání a globalizace [Reform of Legal Education and Globalisation], invited as discussant and moderator of a panel, more information (in Czech) available here
11 January 2008, European University Institute, Florence, co-convening and co-chairing (together with Matej Avbelj, EUI researcher) symposium "Four Visions of Constitutional Pluralism'
26 November 2007, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, conference "Beyond Lisbon: The Constitutional Challenges of Tomorrow's European Union," discussant
11-12 October 2007, Utrecht University, Faculty of Law, conference "Europeanization of Public Law, paper "The Use of EU law as a Conclusive Argument to Everything
1-7 August 2007, Krakow, XIII World Congress of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, paper "EU precedent as a means of communication in the pluralistic European constitutionalism"
11 May 2007, Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, conference "Evropské soudnictví na ústavní křižovatce" ["The European Judiciary at a Constitutional Crossroads"] - panelist in the panel "Soudní dvůr jako součást soudního systému členských států - vrchol pyramidy nebo nástroj rozkladu soudních hierarchií?" ["The Court of Justice - a part of of the national judicial systems - a top of the pyramid or a means of destroying judicial hierarchies?"], transcript (in Czech) available here - pdf
9-10 March 2007, British Law Centre in Warsaw and the Centre for European Legal Studies of the University of Cambridge, Warsaw, Conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, paper "'In the Court(s) We Trust?' On the need for hierarchy and differentiation in the preliminary ruling procedure"
18-19 November 2005, Aix en Province, European Law Journal together with Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille III) Faculté de droit et de science politique and College d’Europe de Natolin, conference "Designing the European Union - 4th International Workshop for Young Scholars (WISH), paper "European Constitutional Pluralism in Action after the Enlargement: defending the constitutional identities of the new Member States"
Workshops, Discussion Groups, and Seminars
1 April 2010, Institute of State and Law, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, symposium "Parliamentary Democracy and Constitutionalism", opening remarks at the section "Soveregnty of the Czech Republic and the Lisbon Treaty" (a short video report - in Czech - available here)
22 January 2009, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, EC Law Discussion Group, paper "Judicial Precedent in European Constitutional Pluralism - A Framework of Analysis"
14-16 January 2009, Bergen, international doctoral course/workshop "Hope, Reluctance or Fear? The Democratic Consequences of the Case Law of the European Court of Justice," paper "Theories of European constitutionalism and European courts: An institutional turn"
20 November 2007, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, Discussion Group within the course "Principles of Civil Procedure" (Professor Adrian Zuckerman), paper "Legal professional privilege before the Court of Justice: some puzzles concerning its rationale and justification"
14 May 2007, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, EC Law Discussion Group, paper "'In the Court(s) We Trust?' On the need for hierarchy and differentiation in the preliminary ruling procedure"
24 April 2007, Florence, European University Institute, Florence, Working Group on Courts and Judges, paper "'In the Court(s) We Trust?' On the need for hierarchy and differentiation in the preliminary ruling procedure"
27 October 2006, University of Oxford, Faculty of Law, EC Law Discussion Group, panel "Do national courts and the European Court of Justice really treat EC law in the same way?" together with Alicia Hinarejos, Dorota Leczykiewicz and Prof. Paul Craig
Events I was Invited to Attend (without presenting my own paper)
25 - 26 March 2010, invited to take part in the second EuNaCon seminar, Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law (TICOM)
15 May 2009, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law, Czech Presidency in the EU, Czech Society for European and Comparative Law, chairing discussion after a lecture by Miguel Poiares Maduro, The Role and Legitimacy of the European Court of Justice
30 April 2009, Counseling Centre For Citizenship, Civil And Human Rights and Czech Society For European And Comparative Law, conference "Equality in European Law: A Platonic Heaven?", chairing a panel
17-18 April 2008, University of Michigan Law School, international interdisciplinary roundtable "Contested Space: Federalism and Federation in Europe"
20-21 June 2008, Oxford, seminar in honour of Lord Bingham of Cornhill "A Matter of Style? The Form of Judgments in the United Kingdom and Abroad"
30 April 2005, European University Institute, Florence, Workshop Apres Enlargement: Taking Stock of the Immediate Legal and Political Responses to the Accession of Central and Eastern European States to the EU
