The 3rd Annual CEENELS conference took place in Riga, Latvia on 11-13 January 2018. The topic was “Legal Traditions and Legal Identities in Central and Eastern Europe”. 

The conference was attended by almost 70 scholars from 12 countries: Belarus, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia,  Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The final programme can be found here: 

• General programme
• Parallel sessions – updated!
• Book of abstracts

Official opening of the conference

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1st Plenary Session (11 January 2018)

Plenary lecture by Prof.  Adam Sulikowski (University of Wrocław)

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Plenary lecture by Doc. Martin Škop (Masaryk University at Brno)

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Plenary lecture by Doc. Tomas Berkmanas (Vytautas Magnas University at Kaunas)

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Plenary lecture by Dr. Cosmin Sebastian Cercel (University of Nottingham)

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2nd Plenary Session

Official address by the Dean of the Law Faculty of University of Latvia, Prof.  Anita Rodiņa

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Plenary lecture by Prof. Sanita Osipova

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Plenary lecture by Prof. Manuel Guţan

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Plenary lecture by Dr. habil. Piotr Fiedorczyk (University of Białystok)

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Plenary lecture by Doc. Zdenek Kuhn

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3rd Plenary session

Plenary lecture by Doc. Vladislav Starzhenetskiy (Владислав Старженецкий) (Higher School of Economics at Moscow)

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Plenary lecture by Dr. habil. Tomasz Bekrycht (University of Łódź)

4th Plenary Session

Plenary lecture by Prof. Piotr Niczyporuk (University of Białystok)

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Plenary lecture by Doc. Marko Novak

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Parallel sessions 

Social events

Pre-conference drinks. (Photo R. Mańko)

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Prof. Adam Sulikowski and Mgr. Dominik Góra (photo R. Mańko)

Dr. Lucian Bojin (photo R. Mańko)

We would like to invite you to the annual conference of our partner organisation specialized in the therory of law:  The Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence (CEENJ) This year’s conference is entitled “Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: Work in Progress 2017” is organized by the University of Latvia Faculty of Law with the support of the leading law firms in Latvia – COBALT, Eversheds Bitāns, FORT Legal – and Professor Kārlis Dišlers’ Foundation.

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The 2nd Annual Conference of the Central and Eastern European Network of Legal Scholars (CEENELS) will be held in Kraków on 7-8 January 2016. The event will be hosted by the Department of History of Political and Legal Thought, Jagiellonian University in collaboration with the Centre for Legal Education and Social Theory, University of Wrocław. The topic of this year’s CEENELS conference is “An Uneasy Legacy: Remnants of Socialist Legal and Political Thinking in Central and Eastern Europe”.

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1st Annual Conference of the Central and Eastern European Network of Legal Scholars (CEENELS): “25 Years after the Transformation: Law and Legal Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Between Continuity and Discontinuity” in Brno, 16-17 April 2015. Report by Wojciech Zomerski (Wrocław).

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