By ensuring or re-establishing peace and legal certainty, a well-reasoned judgment of an impartial judiciary could ideally have a pacifying and preventive effect also for the future and beyond the boundaries of the case actually settled, thus tending to stabilise the legal system. What are the possibilities and limits of such a perspective for EU courts and other international courts?
The system of EU law forms an autonomous legal order of its own, different from national law as well as from classic public international law. This seminar intends to examine the specificities of the EU judiciary as compared to national and other international courts. The compelling direct effect of EU judgments and their guiding and unifying character for the EU level as well as for the national level in the ambit of EU law gives the EU courts activities their own special dimension and importance.
In this context, the courts organisational and procedural framework, above all the access to justice, will have to be reviewed in the light of their specific tasks and competences. The same goes for their specific methods of interpreting and applying the law, not least including inspiration from comparative law. Besides the judicial recognition of general principles of law, alongside with autonomous EU fundamental rights, the realisation of procedural justice and/or substantial justice will also be discussed.
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Josef AZIZI
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Judge and President of Chamber, General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg |
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Renate KICKER
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Director, European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy; Deputy Head, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz |
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Judge and President of Chamber, General Court of the European Union, Luxembourg
| 1966-1967 | Studies in General Linguistics, supplementary examination in Ancient Greek
| 1967-1971 | Studies in Socio-Economics (Mag.rer.soc.oec.), University of Vienna
| 1969-1973 | Studies in Law (Mag. et Dr.jur.), University of Vienna
| 1974-1988 | University Assistant and Senior Assistant, Institute for Constitutional and Administrative Law, Vienna School of Economics
| 1976-2006 | Lecturer/Visiting Professor, Public Law, Vienna School of Economics
| 1985-1994 | Civil Servant, Constitutional Department, Austrian Federal Chancellery
| 1985-1994 | Representative ad litem before the Verfassungsgerichtshof (Constitutional Court) in proceedings for review of the constitutionality of federal laws
| 1985-1989 | Member, Council of Europe's Steering Committee on Legal Cooperation (CDCJ)
| 1989-1994 | Head, Department of European Integration Legal Matters and International Economic Law Matters, Federal Chancellery
| | Since 1992 Member, Faculty of EURAS European Advanced Studies and EUROJUS, Danube University, Krems
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| | Since 1993 Reader, University of Vienna
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| 1989-1994 | Coordinator responsible for the adaptation of Austrian federal law to Community law; preparation of constitutional legislation in EU matters
| | Since 1995 Judge, General Court of the European Union (GC)
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| 1993-1994 | Member, Working Party on CELEX, Austrian Legal Information System
| | Since 2000 Part-time Lecturer, University of Luxembourg (and Institut universitaire international, Luxembourg)
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| 1997 | /1998 President of Chamber at the General Court
| | Since 2001 Reader, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
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| | Since 2002 Member, MEIR Specialist Advisory Council of the European Academy, Bozen
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| | Since 2003 Member, Faculty of Master of Laws in Transnational Business Practice, University of Salzburg
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| 2000 | /2001 President of Chamber, General Court
| | Since 2004 Member (from 2008: Vice-Chairman), Board of Trustees, European Law Academy (ERA), Trier
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| 2003 | /2004 President of Chamber, General Court
| | Since 2007 President of Chamber, General Court
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| | Since 2008 Honorary Professor, Law Faculty, University of Vienna
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| | Since 2009 Member, Editorial Board, "European State Aid Law Quarterly" (EStAL |
Director, European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy; Deputy Head, Institute of International Law and International Relations, University of Graz
| 1972 | Doctorate degree in Law, Karl-Franzens University Graz
| 1974 | Doctoral degree in Political Sciences, Karl-Franzens University Graz
| 1972-1975 | Research Assistant, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
| since 1995 | Associate Professor, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
| since 2005 | Deputy Head, Institute of International Law and International Relations, Karl-Franzens-University Graz
| 1997-2009 | Member of the Council of CPT - European Commitee for the Prevention of Torture
| 2007-2009 | 1st Vice-president, CPT - European Commitee for the Prevention of Torture
| since 2010 | Director, ETC - European Training and Research Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Graz
