Towards Democratic Judiciaries (2023), Session 1 Highlights (The roles of judges in a democracy)

Описание: On April 17, 2023, the two-panel plenary event of the ‘Talking Courts’ initiative funded by the U.S. Embassy in Slovakia was hosted by the Department of Political Science of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts, in collaboration with several Talking Court project partners including the J. William Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange in the Slovak Republic and O.P. Jindal Global University, Jindal Global Law School. The event brought together a distinguished group of speakers and participants around the table, from academia, state institutions (notably apex courts and public institutions dedicated to fundamental rights protection and monitoring), and domestic and international non-governmental organizations.

The event was the highlight of the initiative aimed at transcending the traditional silos, whereby exchanges about courts are relegated to law faculties and communities of lawyers instead of more interdisciplinary audiences, or at best, if presented from a Political Science perspective, engaged with through narrow angles of behavioral approaches which conceive of judges as partisans akin to political actors in the executive or the legislature.

Find out more about the event and the project at: https://fphil.uniba.sk/en/talkingcour...

Music Credits to Liborio Conti