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Aplicant:

Ústav státu a práva AV ČR, v.v.i.

Institute of State and Law of the ASCR, v.v.i.

 

Partners:

Ústav štátu a práva Slovenskej akadémie vied

Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

 

Instytut Nauk Prawnych  PAN

Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

 

Magyar Todumányos Akadémia Jogtudományi lntézete

institute for Legal Studies of the Hungarien Academy of Sciences

 

Short project  description

The main objective of the project is to organize a workshop whose main topic is to form a permanent expert group that will be a common platform for the critical evaluation of the main trends in the field of state and law in V4 countries. This workshop is the follow-up of previous conferences that hosted many academics and practitioners from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. One of the results of these conferences was the necessity to establish such a permanent cooperation.

 

The main target of the workshop is to create a regular platform for a critical evaluation of the state of law in V4 countries and suggest political and law measures leading to the correction of the negative trends in the field. These trends were articulated in previous conferences organized by the applicant and included general questions of state and law, public law, private law, EU law implementation, public administration and local government, proteciion of minorities ETA. To tackle this objective, it is necessary to form a group of experts that works permanently, maps the current trends and enables common cooperation of both individuals and teams and prepares a program of the future conferences. There should be at least two representatives from each country in the expert group. The ideal is to create next to expert group and as a result of its work a net of co-operators that represent all main law institutions of the given country - all of the co-operators connected with the expert group. Therefore, we suggest an arrangement of a workshop of representatives from the four Visegrad countries in the framework of a long term project of the "Metamorphoses of the Law". The workshop Metamorphoses of Law in the Visegrad Group Countries should take place in June 2O11 in Znojmo. Proceedings should take one and a half day (the afternoon of the first day and the following day). We suppose that it should be 20 participants: 5 representatives from Poland, 2 from Hungary, 5 from  Slovakia, 8 from the Czech Republic. The financial means applied for will not cover travel expenses of the participants to Znojmo, only the costs of the organization, accomodation (including board), the costs of web home page and publications in law journals.