Keynote Speaker: Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro. European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General.
Keynote Speaker: Vilenas Vadapalas. Judge at the European Union Court of First Instance since 12 May 2004.
Keynote Speaker: Yves Poullet.
Speaker: Ulrike Hauer. Delegation of the EU Commission to Turkey.
May 10, 2007
| Keynote Speaker: Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro | |
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Luís Miguel Poiares Pessoa Maduro. European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General. Born 1967 (Portugal); degree in law (University of Lisbon, 1990); assistant lecturer (European University Institute, 1991); Doctor in Laws (European University Institute, Florence, 1996); visiting professor (London School of Economics, College of Europe, Natolin; Ortega y Gasset Institute, Madrid; Catholic University, Portugal; Institute of European Studies, Macau); Professor (Universidade Nova, Lisbon, 1997); Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow (Harvard University, 1998); co-director of the Academy of International Trade Law; co-editor (Hart Series on European Law and Integration, European Law Journal) and member of the editorial board of several law journals; Advocate General at the Court of Justice since 7 October 2003 |
May 11, 2007
| Keynote Speaker: Vilenas Vadapalas | |
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Vilenas Vadapalas. Judge at the European Union Court of First Instance since 12 May 2004. Judge Vadapalas finished his Doctor of Laws of the University of Moscow; Doctor habil. in law, University of Warsaw; Professor at the University of Vilnius: international law (since 1981), human rights law (since 1991) and Community law (since 2000); Director-General of the Government’s European Law Department; Professor of European law at the University of Vilnius, holder of the Jean Monnet Chair; President of the Lithuanian European Union Studies Association; Chairman of the Parliamentary working group on constitutional reform relating to Lithuanian accession; Member of the International Commission of Jurists (April 2003); former expert to the Council of Europe on questions relating to the compatibility of national legislation with the European Human Rights Convention; |
| Keynote Speaker: Yves Poullet | |
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Yves Poullet. . Ph.D. in Law and graduated in Philosophy, is professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Namur and Liège, Belgium (FUNDP & Ulg) and Dean of the Faculty of Law in Namur.
Yves Poullet heads the CRID, since its creation in 1979. He conducts various researches in the field of new technology with a special emphasis on privacy issues and individual and public freedom in the Information Society. He is one of the legal experts at the UNESCO and the European Council. He was also member (1992-2004) of the Belgian Commission on Data Protection (Commission belgede protection de la vie privée) in charge of the sector of telecommunications and of the Working Group on Telecommunications and Media (International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners). In addition, he is a member of the Legal Advisory Board of European Commission and the president of the Task Force "Electronic Democracy and Access to public records". He also chaired the Belgian Computer Association ABDI (Association Belge de Droit de 'Informatique). Yves Poullet is an active member of the Editorial Board of various famous law reviews. He is a founder of the European Telecommunication Forum, ECLIP and FIRILITE. |
Speakers:
| Ulrike Hauer, Delegation of the EU Commission to Turkey | |
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Ulrike Hauer has been with the European Commission since 1996. In September 2004, she took up her position at the Delegation of the European Commission to Turkey, as Head of Section for Trade, Economy and Agriculture, representing EC interests in Turkey in these areas, and assisting the process of Turkish accession to the EU. Before her move to Ankara, she worked at the EC’s headquarter in Brussels. First, from 1996 to 1999, in the department for external relations, the focus of her work was on international economic relations, analyzing developments regarding the EC’s trade and economic relations with Asia, Latin America and the Mediterranean countries. In 1999, she joined the EC’s department for external trade as a member of the team responsible for International Trade in Services, participating in the WTO negotiations as well as negotiations between the EC and its partners in the Mediterranean. Ms Hauer has a master’s degree in History of the University of Vienna, and has completed her postgraduate studies on international relations at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. |