Rule of Law as Lawfare Conference - DAY 2

The conference will be organized around several thematic sessions, with both keynote speakers and panel discussions. Together, participants will address a range of issues pertaining to the terminology and practice of the "rule of law," as well as its abuse and manipulation by special interest groups, and its correct application and defense.

Day TWO

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:40 Keynote Address: ‘The Ideal Concept of the Rule of Law’

• Prof. István Stumpf, Former Constitutional Justice at the Constitutional Court of Hungary (HU)
• Prof. Dr. Reinhard Merkel, Universität Hamburg (DE)

9:40-10:50 Presentation Panel: ‘Rule of Law – a Legal Concept or a Political Tool?’

• Presenter / Moderator: Ákos Bence Gát, Head of EU Affairs, MCC Brussels (HU)
• Gadi Taub, historian, author, political commentator (IS)
• MEP Margarita de la Pisa (ES)
• Edoardo Raffiotta, Professor of Law, University of Milan Bicocca (IT)

10:50-11:10 Coffee Break

11:10-12:20 Presentation Panel: ‘Domestic Justice System and the Rule of Law’

• Presenter / Moderator: Márton Sulyok, Head of Public Law Center at Mathias Corvinus Collegium (HU)
• Prof. Aleksander Stępkowski, University of Warsaw, Judge of the Polish Supreme Court (PL)
• Rodrigo Ballester, Head of the Centre for European Studies at Mathias Corvinus Collegium / Ministerial Commissioner for Higher Education (ES)
• John Larkin, former Attorney General for Northern Ireland (UK)

12:20-13:20 Networking Lunch

13:20-13:40 Keynote Address by MK Simcha Rothman, Member of the Knesset (IS)

13:40-14:50 Presentation Panel: ‘When the Rule of Law Breaks Down’

• Presenter / Moderator: Sébastien Meuwissen, Visiting Fellow, Center for Fundamental Rights (PL)
• Fred de Fossard, Head of the British Prosperity Unit at the Legatum Institute (UK)
• Alejandro Peña Esclusa, writer, analyst, political consultant, Venezuela (YV)
• Javier Torrox, analyst, journalist, translator (ES)

14:50-15:10 Coffee Break

15:10-16:20 Presentation Panel: ‘Anglosphere and Human Rights’

• Presenter / Moderator: John O’Sullivan CBE, President, Danube Institute (UK)
• Prof. Hadley Arkes, President of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding (US)
• David McGrogan, Associate Professor of Law, Northumbria Law School (UK)
• Jonathan Price, Matraszek Fellow, University of Oxford (US/UK)

16:20-16:30 Concluding Remarks by Ofir Haivry, Vice-President, Herzl Institute of Jerusalem, co-founder, Edmund Burke Foundation (IS)

Language: English