Administrative Law and Reform in Eastern Europe: a Socio-Legal Perspective
Friday 30th November 2012
Rectorate Building, Philosophy Department, University of Sofia,
(Conference room 63, third floor)
Participant Biographies
Denis Galligan is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University and Vicegerent of Wolfson College, Oxford. Professor Galligan is also Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Law at the Universita’ degliStudidi Siena and is a Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Previous posts include a Tutorial Fellow at Jesus College Oxford and chairs at Southampton University and Sydney University. For several years he was a Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest.
Professor Galligan is a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, an independent institution affiliated with the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and based at Wolfson College Oxford, whose objective is to study the role of law in contemporary societies and bring the fruits of academic research to a wider professional audience.
Daniel Smilov is a comparative constitutional lawyer and political scientist. He is Programme Director at the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Recurrent Visiting Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University, Budapest, and Associate Professor of Political Theory at the Political Science Department, University of Sofia. He holds doctorates from the University of Oxford (DPhil, 2003) and the Central European University, Budapest (SJD, 1999, summa cum laude). Dr. Smilov is co-author (with Martin Tisne) of From the Ground Up: Assessing the Record of Anticorruption Assistance in Southeast Europe, Central European University Press, 2004, co-editor (with Denis Galligan) of Administrative Law in Central and Eastern Europe, CEU Press, 1999, and co-editor (together with JurijToplak) of Political Finance and Corruption in Eastern Europe, Ashgate, 2007.
Dorota Pudzianowskais Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Warsaw University. She specializes in public law with special interest in human rights, migration law, nationality law and anti-discrimination law. She also works as a senior lawyer at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw where she is responsible for strategic litigation of discrimination cases. She works as an expert for Council of Europe and European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (within FRANET). In years 2009-2012 she was an alternate member of the Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
BojanBugarič is an Associate Professor at the University of Ljubljana, School of Law in Slovenia. He holds a doctorate degree in law from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1997), a master degree in law from the UCLA School of Law (1994), and a certificate in European Law from the European University Institute, Florence (1992). In 2005 he was a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of law. Professor Bugarič taught a seminar entitled Global Challenges for National Legal Regimes in spring 2005. He has previously taught at UCLA School of Law in 1998 and 2000. In 2001, he held the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at the University of Trento in Italy. He also has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for European Studies. Professor Bugarič brings a range of governmental and public service experience to his teaching. From 2000 to 2004, he was Deputy Minister of the Interior in the Slovenian Government. He has served as a member of the Advisory Board of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna. Professor Bugarič also was chief negotiator with Brussels for Justices and Home Affairs.
Monika Magyar is a media lawyer based in Budapest, Hungary.
Jana Jaseckova holds a law degree from the University of PavolJozefSafarik, Kosice, Slovakia and an LL.M in Comparative Constitutional Law with specialization in EU law from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. She worked for the Open Society Justice Initiative in Budapest, specifically for the National Criminal Justice Reform programme as a Legal Fellow. Since 2009 she has been enrolled in a SJD programme at Central European University, where she is researching parliamentary functions in comparative perspective. In 2010 she was awarded a one year Tübitak Research Fellowship for Foreign Citizens in Turkey. She is currently a visiting student at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in Oxford.
PavelUhlis a lawyer, currently working at RychetskýHlaváčekKramperaLaw Office in Prague. He specializes in: providing advice to the public (mainly in administrative and constitutional law); liaising with the NGO ‘People in Need’ (mainly in their social programmes and integration activities); liaising with other NGOs (also in domain of consumer law); providing analysis; and litigation. He holds two PhDs: one in Constitutional, International and European Law from Charles University and one in Political science fromMasaryk University. He has written extensively on the Czech political system and the role of the law and various state authorities within it
Maxim Timofeyev has a degree in law from Russian Customs Academy (2000), and a Russian academic degree of candidate of legal science from Moscow State Law Academy (2005). In 2006-2011 Maxim was an Associate Professor of Public Legal Disciplines at the St. Petersburg branch of the Russian Law Academy under the Ministry of Justice. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Comparative Constitutional Law at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
Maxim Timofeyev is the author and co-author of a number of Russian language articles and books (including ‘Ombudsman Institutions in UK and Republic of Ireland: The Cooperative Style of Control’ and ‘Summaries of the Judgments Delivered by the European Court of Human Rights in Russian Cases (2002–2011)’). He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Russian language Journal of International Justice.
Martin Belov, PhD is a Chief Assistant Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Sofia "St. KlimentOhridski", Faculty of Law. He has been a guest lecturer in Comparative Constitutional Law at the Universities of Cologne (Germany), Milan (Italy) and Lisbon (Portugal). Dr Belov has been a project researcher at Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History (Frankfurt am Main, Germany). He has written 5 books and more than 40 articles. Dr Belov has also specialized at the universities of Hamburg, Bremen, Cologne, and Dresden (Germany), Strasbourg (France), Vienna (Austria) and Gent (Belgium) as well as the EALT (Brussels, Belgium).
Elena-SiminaTanasescuis Professor and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of Bucharest. She is the Director of the Centre for Constitutional Law and Political Institutions (Bucharest, Romania). Prof Tanasescu was Romania's representative in the EU's Fundamental Rights' Agency (FRA) and has acted as expert and pre-accession adviser to various bodies including the Delegation of the European Commission in Romania. Currently she is Romania's representative within the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of local self-government. She has taught and published extensively on Romanian and comparative constitutional law, EU law, and the legal protection of human rights.
Miodrag A. Jovanovićis an Associate Professor in the Introduction to Jurisprudence, at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. His internationally published books include: Collective Rights – A Legal Theory, Cambridge University Press, Cambride, 2012; Constitutionalizing Secession in Federalized States: A Procedural Approach, Eleven, Untrecht, 2007; with S. Samardžić, Federalism and Decentralisation in Eastern Europe: Between Transition and Secession, Institut du Fédéralisme, Fribourg/LIT Verlag, Zurich and Vienna, 2007; He edited (with K. Henrard), Sovereignty and Diversity, Eleven, Utrecht, 2008; (with I. Krstić) Human Rights Today – 60 Years of the Universal Declaration, Eleven, Utrecht, 2010; (with BojanSpaić), Jurisprudence and Political Philosophy in the 21st Century: Reassessing Legacies, Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2012; (with ĐorđePavićević), Crisis and Quality of Democracy in South East European States, Eleven, Utrecht, 2012. His areas of interest are jurisprudence, theory of state, philosophy of international law, legal theory of collective rights, political theory of multiculturalism, federalism and legal and political nature of the EU.
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