Sunday, August 10
All day Arrival of participants
19:00 Opening of the Summer School and Introduction
Followed by Dinner
Location: Presidency building
Titova Str. 16, Sarajevo
Monday, August 11, 2008
09:00 – 10:30 Concept/Notion, Essential Elements and Functions of the Rule of Law - Part I: Introduction
Potential topics/themes:
Rule of law in a formal sense
Material comprehension of the rule of law
Separation of powers
Constitutional jurisdiction
Independence of the judiciary
Protection of fundamental and human rights
Relationship between administration and private citizen (Individual)
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. iur. Ulrich Karpen, Faculty of Law, Hamburg University (confirmed)
Discussion
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 Concept/Notion, Essential Elements and Functions of the Rule of Law – Part II: Chances and Challenges for the sustainable establishment and the implementation of rule of law structures in the countries of South East Europe
Potential topics/themes:
Standing and real importance/effect of the Constitution in public and in everyday law/justice of the country;
the reality of the separation of powers within the relationship between Executive and Legislative, taking into consideration the institutional force/power and effectiveness of the – formal and informal-parliamentarian structures;
the quality of the lawmaking process – faith in the procedure, efficiency, transparency and public apprehension/awareness;
the independence of the judiciary/justice, the effectiveness of the judicial system, of the image of judges (self-esteem and public apprehension/awareness);
the awareness of the general/common public, of the print Media and the electronic Media regarding the perception of the rule of law as an independent element of the constitutional order, together with the democratic principle and the civil society.
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. iur. Ulrich Karpen, Faculty of Law, Hamburg University (confirmed)
Discussion
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:30 Fight against corruption in SEE – Legal and Practical Issues
Lecturer:
Monica Luisa Macovei, former Romanian Minister of Justice, UK Consultant on Anti-corruption to the Prime Minister of Macedonia (confirmed)
Discussions
Tuesday, August 12
09:00 – 10:45 The Protection of fundamental and human rights as a political guiding principle and purpose of the rule of law: Introduction
Lecturer:
Gregory Fabian, former legal advisor within the HR department at the OSCE Mission to BiH
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 13:00 Special Protection of Human Rights in Crisis Regions – the example of the Human Rights Chamber according to Annex 6 of the Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA)
Lecturer:Dr. iur. Nedim Ademović, Senior Legal Advisor at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) (confirmed)
Discussion
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 16:30 Visit to Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Possible topics:
Constitutional Court of BiH: introduction of how the CC functions (registration office, case-management, IT-service, data-base etc.)
Contact person: Dr. iur. Nedim Ademović
Wednesday, August 13
09:00 – 10:45 Mechanisms of the protection of fundamental rights and means for their successful initialization: Administrative courts and ordinary courts, parliamentary human rights commissioners, Ombudsman Institutions, children's rights commissioners, human rights complaints to the European Court of Human Rights – Theoretical issues
Potential topics/themes:
- Mechanisms for the protection of fundamental rights;
- Protection of the rights of citizens and juridical persons against the administration through administrative authority and judicial possibilities of the protection of rights, either through an ordinary jurisdiction or through an administrative jurisdiction or hybrid forms;
- Effectiveness of the mechanisms of protection of rights, particularly from the point of view of the equity of the weapons of both sides in court procedure, of its length/duration and of the experience in the implementation of the judgments/decisions;
- Access of the people/citizens to justice and potential restrains: procedural, financial, psychological, social, and political.
Lecturer:
Mladen Sain, LL.M. EUR., PhD Candidate at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Teaching Assistant at the Law Faculty of the University in Zenica (confirmed)
Discussion
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00 Workshop II: Mechanisms of the protection of fundamental rights and means for their successful initialization: Administrative courts and ordinary courts, parliamentary human rights commissioners, Ombudsman Institutions, children's rights commissioners, human rights complaints to the European Court of Human Rights – Practical issues
Lecturer:
Miroslav Zivanovic, Center for Human Rights, Sarajevo University (confirmed)
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Afternoon Study time
Thursday, August 14
09:00 - 10:30 The difference between law and politics, between judges and politicians
Potential topics/themes:
- Constitutional courts between law and politics
- The relationship between the constitutional courts and the government and the constitutional courts and the parliament
Lecturer:
Dr. iur. Nedim Ademović, Senior Legal Advisor at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) (confirmed)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:30 Workshop I: Creating a Rule of Law Network
Pravnik
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 17:30 Visit to BiH Court (t.b.c.)
Friday , August 15
09:00 – 11:00 Institution Building and Rule of Law
Lecturer:
Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, former High Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina and EU Special Representative (confirmed)
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 14:00 Constitutional jurisdiction I: protection mechanism of the constitutional order – Theory and Practice
Lecturer:
Univ. Prof. Dr. iur. Joseph Marko, Institute for Austrian, European and Comparative Public Law and Political Sciences of the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Director of the Centre for Competence South East Europe of the Law Faculty (confirmed)
14:00 - 15:30 Lunch
15:30 – 17:30 Constitutional jurisdiction II: protection mechanism of the constitutional fundamental rights – Theory and Practice
Lecturer:
Univ. Prof. Dr. iur. Joseph Marko, Institute for Austrian, European and Comparative Public Law and Political Sciences of the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Director of the Centre for Competence South East Europe of the Law Faculty (confirmed)
20:00 Sarajevo Film Festival
Saturday , August 16
Sarajevo sightseeing
Sunday, August 17
Mostar sightseeing
Monday, August 18
09:00 – 10:
30 Judicial reconciliation with the past: Introduction
Lecturer:
Dr. iur. Stefanie Ricarda Roos, Director Rule of Law Program South East Europe, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (confirmed)
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 12:00 Judicial reconciliation with the past by means of criminal law – National and international instruments (part I)
Lecturer: Vladimir Petrović, MPhil, Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade; PhD candidate at History Department, Central European University, Budapest (confirmed)
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:30 Judicial reconciliation with the past by means of criminal law – National and international instruments (part II)
Lecturer: Vladimir Petrović, Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade;PhD candidate at History Department, Central European University, Budapest (confirmed)
Tuesday, August 19
09:00 – 12:00 Workshop III: Once the Shooting Stops: an Examination of Domestic War Crimes Investigations and Prosecutions and their Effect on Post Conflict "Rule of Law" Issues
Lecturer: David Schwendiman, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Special Department for War Crimes of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH (confirmed)
Discussion
2:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:30 Evaluation
21:00 - Closing ceremony
Wednesday, August 20
All day: Departure of participants
