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Judges in Europe in their daily practice, often presiding in small and old fashioned courtrooms, address these problems, are challenged and sometimes overloaded by them.
Globalization is a burden on justice. In particular, criminal justice is not just restricted to fulfill essential social functions such as conflict resolution, but is also subject to crucial principles of law, such as due process, fair trial and equality of arms. The principle of independent and
impartial justice makes sure that judicial control is integrated within the rule of law. Thus, the rights of citizens are fully legally protected. The protection of individual rights is the core competence of criminal justice. This is a value as such. Without this value state and society risk
losing their normative cohesion, their reliability, their stability and finally the trust of the people and thus their legitimacy Nevertheless, the principle of independent and impartial justice is in danger, especially in the realm of criminal law.
This is due to a series of risks, which follow from the interventions of the other state powers – the legislative and the executive power – but also from the impact of social systems sometimes characterized as "dysfunctional". Usual strategies to overcome these risks might still work on the national level, but are doomed to failure in a European and international context.
Main reason for this failure could be seen in a lack of understanding concerning the problems of judicial cooperation in matters of criminal law.
This conference wants to establish another perception of these problems. Usually judicial cooperation in Europe is considered as a matter of legal texts, their coherence and the way rules are applied, with a strict adherence to the letter of the law instead of a nuanced approach addressing more creative approaches to resolve underlying dispute. In order to get an overall
understanding, the traditional work on legal texts must be necessarily connected with interdisciplinary knowledge on the functioning of criminal justice in globalized social systems.
The classical technical judicial approach combined with interdisciplinary and empirical knowledge on the reality of criminal justice systems focus also on the strengthening of judicial self consciousness in order to exercise its function as a protector of fundamental rights to a full extent. This again is inevitably linked with external and internal organization of the judiciary.
Information on participating / attending:
Inscription fee: 50 euros
Name of the bank: Banque et Caisse d’Épargne de l’État
IBAN: LU36 0019 2355 9899 3000
BIC: (Bank Identifier Code) BCEELULL
Account holder: University of Luxembourg
Inscription by fax: +352 26 15 92 - 28
Inscription by e-mail: evelyne.engler@iuil.lu
Deadline for application: October 8th 2010
Date:
10/22/2010 - 10/23/2010
Registration deadline:
10/08/2010
Event venue:
Hotel Melia
1 Park Dräi Eechelen, Luxembourg-Kirchberg
Telefon: + 352 27 33 3-1
1499 Luxemburg
Luxembourg
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Law
Types of events:
Entry:
09/29/2010
Sender/author:
Britta Schlüter
Department:
Campus Limpertsberg
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event32737
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