MEDEL’s 40th Anniversary Conference, 3 June 2025 – Strasbourg

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MEDEL’s 40th Anniversary Conference
3 June 2025, 9.00 – 17.30
Palace of Europe, Strasbourg

Programme:

8.30 – Registration of Participants

9.00 – Opening Session

Simone Gaboriau | Past President of Syndicat de la Magistrature, co-founder of Medel
Introductory remarks by the Minister for Justice and Reform of the Construction Sector of Malta, Mr Jonathan Attard, on behalf of the Presidency of Malta of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe
Mattias Guyomar | President of the European Court of Human Rights
Francesco Depasquale | President of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice – CEPEJ
Mariarosaria Guglielmi | President of Medel
Sirpa Rautio | Director of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights – FRA

10.15 – Coffee Break

10:30 – Round Table. Medel’s Visionary Project: From Idea  to Realization. A Conversation with Medel’s Founding Members and Past Presidents

Filipe Marques and Gualtiero Michelini discuss with

Orlando Afonso
Dragana Boljević
Edmondo Bruti Liberati
Miguel Carmona
Simone Gaboriau
Domenico Gallo
François Guichard
Jean-Paul Jean
Ignazio Juan Patrone
Georgios Stavropoulos
Christoph Strecker
Message from Antonio Cluny
Message from Hans-Ernst Böttcher
Message from Vito Monetti

12.00 – Defending the Rule of law: A Shared Challenge

Chairs: Karolina Tylová | Board Member of Medel
and Iulia Craiu | Secretary-General of Medel
Sylvain Mérenne | President of AEAJ
Tamara Trotman | President of J4J
Message from Mikael Sjöberg | President of EAJ
Message from Đuro Sessa | President of IAJ-UIM

12.30 – Lunch break

14:00 – Current Challenges for Democracy, Rule of Law, Justice, and Fundamental Rights

Message from Michael McGrath | European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection
Message from Leonie Reynolds | President of CCJE

Part 1: Challenges and Imperatives in Safeguarding Human Rights Amidst AI Advancements

Francesco Depasquale | President of the European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice – CEPEJ
Justine Probst | Prosecutor, Syndicat de la Magistrature
Monica Palmirani | Full Professor of Philosophy of Law, University of Bologna
Raffaele Sabato | Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Chair: Giuliana Civinini | President of CEPEJ-CYBERJUST WG 

Part 2: Challenges for the Judiciary in Times of Populism

Anna Adamska-Gallant | Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Michal Bobek | Judge at the Supreme Administrative Court, Czech Republic, Former Advocate General at the European Court of Justice
Laurent Pech | Full Professor of Law, Dean of Law and Head of the Sutherland School of Law, University College of Dublin
Chair: Monika Frąckowiak | Vice-president of MEDEL

17.30 – Closing

Program of the conference (.pdf download):

Program of the conference (.pdf)

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