Conference (hybrid event) 15 September 2023

"Fundamental rights and climate change in EU law and beyond – mapping fundamental rights, Nature’s rights and corresponding legal remedies"

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2023

9.00 Opening and welcome Prof. dr hab. J. Pisuliński, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration, Prof. dr hab. S. Dudzik, Head of the Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

9.10 Introduction and presentation of the JMM SustEULaw Project (dr hab. A. Sikora, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University, SustEULaw Project coordinator)

PANEL I FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE IN EU LAW

1. Permeating fundamental rights’ architecture of EU law with climate change related considerations. A conceptual sketch. (dr hab. A. Sikora, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University) 9h20
2. An inexhaustible potential of the Aarhus Convention in EU law (prof. M. Eliantonio, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University) 9h40
3. Environment as a personal right? Reflections on the background of the resolution by Polish Supreme Court of 28.05.2021 in case III CZP 27/20 (dr I. Przybojewska, Environmental Law Center, Jagiellonian University) 10h00
4. The right to clean and healthy air: enforcement gaps, ineffective remedies and the role of the citizens (dr K. Pouikli, Assistant Professor in Law and Sustainability, Utrecht University) 10h20

10h40 Coffee break

5. Better protection of fundamental rights and the environment along with the digital transformation of Europe (dr hab. I. Kawka, prof. UJ, Chair of European Law, Jagiellonian University 11h00
6. Is glass half full or half empty? Right to water as a new concept in EU legislation (dr O. Hałub-Kowalczyk, Chair of Constitutional Law, University of Wrocław) 11h20
7. Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Soil Monitoring Law) of 5 July 2023 in face of challenges of climate change and right to healthy soil (Prof. UAM dr hab. Aneta Suchoń, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) 11h40
8. Exploring and developing of green skills as an educational platform to proceed toward accurate legal solutions (prof Renata Śliwa, Assistant Professor, Pedagogical University of Cracow, prof E. Szczygieł, Pedagogical University of Cracow) 12h00

12h20 Discussion and questions

12h40 Lunch break until 13h30

PANEL II : NEW PERSPECTIVES OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AND THE NATURE’S RIGHTS : EU LEGAL ORDER AND BEYOND

9. Reflecting on the rights of nature: Challenges, feasibility and the need for legal creativity (JUDr. H. Müllerová – Centre for Climate Law and Sustainability Studies, Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences) 13h40
10. “When food runs out...On the need for changes in the perception of human rights. (dr A. Podolska, dr O. Śniadach, Chair of EU and Comparative Law, Gdańsk University) 14h00
11. Fundamental Rights and the European Union. Couple with bad habits or a ménage à trois with lots of promises? The shadow of the Council of Europe (C. Manuel Alves, Maître de conférences, Faculté de Droit, Université de Bordeaux) 14h20
12. Environmental Protection, Rights of Nature, and Religious Beliefs in Europe (Ikechukwu Ugwu PhD Researcher, University of Silesia in Katowice) 14h40

15h00 Discussion and questions

PANEL III. REMEDIES IN EU LAW – ROLE OF THE EU AND NATIONAL COURTS

13. Does EU law Require Welcoming Attitudes to Climate Litigation in the Member States? (prof. F. Křepelka, Masarykova Univerzita, Brno) 15h20
14. Action for the environment- experiences and challenges of the national courts in the enforcement of EU environmental law in the climate crisis (dr M. Baran, Environmental Law Center, Jagiellonian University) 15h40
15. Public interest litigation in environmental cases. Recent judicial developments and challenges before the Romanian courts from Transylvania (D. Ionescu, Lecturer, Babes Bolyai University Cluj Napoca) 16h00

16h20 Discussion and questions. Coffee break

16. Fundamental right to clean air as a non-viable legal concept in the light of the latest CJEU case law (dr J. Bazylińska-Nagler, Chair of International and European Law, Faculty of Law, Wroclaw University) 16h40
17. Domestic law, Rome II or so-called soft law? Between the legal qualification of climate claims and the law applicable to their resolution (M. Krystman-Rydlewicz, PhD Student, Doctoral School of Social Sciences of Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) 17h00
18. Is there a “safe harbour” in a draft corporate sustainability due diligence directive? (dr V. Poiedynok, Institute of Law, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine) 17h20

YOUNG SCHOLARS’ SESSION

19. Climate-Induced Migration, a dangerous legal gap in European asylum law (N. Keckhut, Jagiellonian University, Erasmus student) 17h40
20. Energy security and the right to energy on the basis of the ,Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (M. Rychlak, Jagiellonian University, student) 17h50
21. Pushing nature to its limits – on the “ecocide” issue (W. Muszewski, Jagiellonian University student) 18h00

18h10 Discussion

18h45 Concluding remarks

20h Gala dinner

Thank you and see you!!!!!
Your SustEULaw team

If you wish to register for the event, please send an email indicating your academic affiliation to: susteulawconferences@uj.edu.pl

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