CEuS Lecture Series

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In a further presentation on 27 June 2024, Annegret Ritter-Victor and Alexander Roth (both Centre Berlin of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office) introduced “The European Public Prosecutor’s Office”.
On 24 June 2024, Dr. Sergi Jorbenadze, Ph.D., LL.M. (Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Department of Interdisciplinary) gave a lecture on the topic “Approaches to regulating social networks to protect against legal violations”.
Christian Schmidt, LL.M.oec. (Federal Government, Head of the Energy Policy and Energy Transition Unit) spoke on the subject of “Security of energy supply in the ‘Zeitenwende’” on 29 May 2024.
On 6 July 2023, Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Paulus, Institute of International and European Law, University of Göttingen, spoke on "A Human Right to Climate Change Mitigation - From the Climate Decision of the Federal Constitutional Court to an International Guarantee?".

On 13 June 2023, a lecture on "Digital Euro - Design Options and Legal Framework" by Prof. Dr. Roland Broemel, Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, followed.
The first lecture of the summer term 2023 took place on 9 May 2023. Dr. iur. Dr. h.c. Jean-Michel Servais, guest lecturer at Université de Gérone, spoke on "The European Union and the Quest for Social Justice: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow".
On 18 January 2023, Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach, Department of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, concluded the CEuS Lecture Series of the winter term 2022/2023 with a lecture on "European Citizenship after 30 Years: Legal Construction or Social Reality?".

On 6 December 2022, Prof. Dr. Christian Kreuder-Sonnen, Institute of Political Science, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, spoke on "European Crisis Management Effective and Legitimate? The Proposal of an Emergency Constitution for the European Union".
On 3 November 2022, the lecture series was continued with a lecture by Federal Judge Prof. Dr. Julia Hänni, Lausanne/St. Gallen, on the topic of "On the justiciability of climate claims in the area of fundamental rights".
On 25 October 2022, Prof. Dr. Stein Evju, Department of Private Law, University of Stockholm, opened the CEuS Lecture Series of the winter term 2022/2023. He gave a lecture on "Monitoring the Appliction of the European Social Charter: The European Committee for Sicial Rights".
On 5 July 2022, Prof. Dr Mattias Wendel, Faculty of Law, University of Leipzig, spoke on "French and German European Law? On differences in topics and perceptions in French and German legal thinking on Europe".
On 6 January 2022, Prof. Dr. Matthias Ruffert, Faculty of Law, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, gave a CEuS Lecture on the topic "Europe's future on an uncertain basis: Union constitutional problems of NextGenerationEU".
On 29 Juni 2021, Dr. Rebekka Wiemann, LL.M. (Harvard), Council of the European Union, spoke about "The Council of the European Union and its role in the European Union ƒdecision-making process: an insight into practice".
On 4 May 2021, Prof. Dr. Peter-Tobias Stoll, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, spoke about "The European Green Deal".

On 22 January 2020, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hermann Schmitt finished the CEuS Lecture Series of the winter semester 2019/2020 with his lecture "The Reshaping of Political Conflict over Europe - From pre-Maastricht to post-crises". On the basis of European election studies he demonstrated how far political parties have changed their attitude towards the European Union after the conclusion of the Maastricht Treaty.

On 4 December 2019, Dr. Ulrich Karpenstein continued the CEuS Lecture Series of the winter semester 2019/2020 with his lecture "Non habebis deos alienos coram me! - A practitioner's view on the relationship between the German Federal Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice". After having given the abstract basics on the relationship between the two courts, he described the area of conflict between them with the help of practical cases.
On 30 October 2019, Prof. Dr. Ivana Jelić, LL.M., judge of the European Court of Human Rights, started the CEuS Lecture Series of the winter semester 2019/2020. Her lecture "The European Convention on Human Rights as a Living Instrument - Protection of Gender, Children and National Minorities" focused on the "Living instrument doctrine" which is used by the court in order to reach effective and comprehensive human rights protection in times of constantly changing circumstances in society.
On 21 May 2019, Dr. Wittling-Vogel of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection continued the CEuS Lecture Series of the summer semester 2019 with her lecture "The Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights – a report from practice". After giving an overview of the Council of Europe's work, she described the advantages and the current challenges of the European Court of Human Rights.
On 23 April 2019, Dr. Kirsten Scholl, head of the department for European Policy in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, started the CEuS Lecture Series in the summer semester 2019 with her lecture "Europäische Herausforderungen aus der Sicht der Bundesregierung". Primarily, she pointed out the current status and the difficulties of the Brexit negotiations from a practicioner's point of view.

On 30 January 2019, Prof. Alessandra Casarico of the Università Bocconi (Milan/Italy) introduced with her lecture "Irregular Migration: A Policy Challenge" to possible strategies to handle illegal immigration. She compared results of repressive actions and legalisation programmes and concluded that the latter could be a gain for both the migrants and the host states.
On 24 January 2019, Prof. Daniel Thym, LL.M. (London), Faculty of Politics, Law and Economics, University of Konstanz searched with his lecture "Structural problems of European and international refugee law" for the weaknesses in the current migration law. He presented the development since 1945 and identified possible starting points for reforms.
On 5 December 2018, Dr. Stephan Wilske, LL.M. (Chicago), from the law firm Gleiss Lutz Partnergesellschaft mbH Stuttgart opened the CEuS Lecture Series of the winter term 2018. In his lecture "Investment Arbitration in Europe: The decision of Achmea from the European Court of Justice and its political and legal consequences", he dealt with a development in the jurisdiction which could have fundamental effects on the intra-european and perhaps also the worldwide BITs.
On 20 June 2018, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Trenz of the Centre for Modern European Studies, University of Cogenhagen, gave the last CEuS Lecture of this term. In his presentation "European public and the politicization of the European Union" he discussed whether the coming into existence of a European public was feasible and necessary to legitimize the European integration project.
On 23 May 2018, Prof. Dr. Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski of the Willy Brandt Center for German and European Studies, University Wroclaw, gave the second CEuS Lecture in 2018. In his presentation he looked at the concept of "European identity", its existence and its potential role in times of crisis.
On 2 May 2018, Dr. Rubén Ruiz-Rufino from King's College London started off the CEuS Lecture Series. His presentation on "Democracy tensioned: The effect of financial bailouts on citizens and parties during the Eurocrisis" analysed how the worsening of the economic conditions within the Eurozone affected support to establishment parties. According to Dr. Ruiz-Rufino's research, governments which were financially bailed out and then monitored got into a dilemma of responsibility and responsiveness. They found themselves constrained and in some cases unable to implement particular type of policies demanded by those citizens hit by the economic crisis most notably. Citizens observed this lost confidence in the functioning of democracy and turned their backs to establishment parties. The talk was based on two recently published articles of Dr. Ruiz-Rufino and his co-author Sonia Alonso and was followed by a lively discussion.