Subject
On the first weekend of May, numerous ceremonies will
celebrate five years of participation of Latvia and nine other "new member
states" in the European Union. We will celebrate too, but in a less formal way,
concentrating not on grandiloquent speeches but on the exchange of
professional experiences, observations and ideas. Since the Union is based
on the rule of law and the law is its most important instrument, five years of
participation means most notably five years of implementation and application of
European Union law. How is Union law observed and applied in daily legal
practice? How has legal education developed in this new field of law in Latvia?
What is the impact of the language problem?
What about the cooperation of the Baltic states in matters of Union law? What
issues are topical with regard to the situation in Latvia?
The evening
seminar will consist of short lectures, leaving plenty
of room for discussions. Interventions from the audience are welcome.
There will be drinks and snacks at the breaks.
During the last
months, the project group of the Baltisch-Deutsches
Hochschulkontor has revised and enlarged its trilingual legal terminology list
"Eiropas
tiesību pamattermini" ("Grundwortschatz Europarecht"/"Basic vocabulary
of European Union law"). We thank all users for their suggestions. The
revised final version will be presented and distributed at the seminar.
All those interested are
welcome!
Program
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Practical aspects
of the implementation and enforcement of EU law in Latvia in the fields of
labour law, non-discrimination and free movement of workers
-
Dr. Kristīne Dupate, Ombudsman's Office and European Labour Law Network -
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Baltic cooperation in matters of European Union law and its
potential
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Dr. Christoph Schewe,
University of Tartu -
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The development of legal education in the field of European Union law in
Latvia
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Edmunds Broks and Arnis Buka, University of Latvia -
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Shortcut to euro or dead end? Reflections on the (im)possibility of changing
the Maastricht criteria and the consequences of unilateral euroisation
- Kristīne Dreviņa, Ministry of Justice,
European Court of Justice Department -
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Linguistic problems in the dealing with the multilingual European Union law
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitz, University of
Latvia, Baltisch-Deutsches Hochschulkontor -
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