Fundamental and human rights in Europe. 75 years of the ECHR, 25 years of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
XXIV Walter Hallstein Colloquium
The 24th Walter Hallstein Colloquium is taking two anniversaries as an opportunity to look at the protection of fundamental and human rights in Europe. The year 2025 will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), and 25 years will have passed since the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union was proclaimed. The past decades were initially characterized by the constant expansion and deepening of the European Union of fundamental rights. Thematically, new questions of adaptation to changing social, technological and global political conditions and upheavals have arisen time and again. European fundamental rights have been the scene of judicial conflicts between the European and national levels and have undergone various cycles of reform as well as political disputes over the dismantling of European protection. Most recently, illiberal tendencies, migration movements and the war in Ukraine have challenged European human rights protection. These topics will be discussed in four panels with experts from academia, jurisdictions and European institutions.
Registration until March 21, 2025 to: psaila@jur.uni-frankfurt.de (Prof. Dr. Stefan Kadelbach Secretariat)
Program
Thursday, March 27, 2025
14.15
Greeting
Stefan Kadelbach, Rainer Hofmann
Wilhelm Merton Center
14.30
PANEL 1: Civil liberties and the rule of law (ECHR and CFR)
Moderation: Rainer Klump, Wilhelm Merton Center
Mattias Wendel, Leipzig: European citizenship and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
Stefanie Schmahl, Würzburg: Climate protection and the ECHR
15.30
Discussion
16.00
Coffee break
16.30
PANEL 2: Social rights
Moderation: Andrea Kießling, Frankfurt
Claudia Hofmann, Frankfurt a. d. Oder: Social rights in Europe
Achim Seifert, Saarbrücken: International Labor Organization and European Fundamental Rights
17.30
Discussion
Friday, March 28, 2025
09.15
PANEL 3: Human rights before constitutional courts
Moderation: Astrid Wallrabenstein, Karlsruhe/Frankfurt
Christine Langenfeld, Karlsruhe/Göttingen: The BVerfG and human rights
Franz Merli, Vienna: Comparative legal aspects
10.15
Discussion
10.45
Coffee break
11.00
PANEL 4: Fundamental and human rights against the backdrop of armed conflicts, disagreements over migration and challenges from illiberal regimes: Where do we go from here?
Moderation: Stefan Kadelbach, Rainer Hofmann
Christoph Grabenwarter, Vienna; Frank Hoffmeister, Brussels, Andreas Paulus, Göttingen
12.15
Discussion
12.45
Concluding words
Rainer Hofmann, Wilhelm Merton Center
13.00
End of the colloquium
Organizer:
Wilhelm Merton Center for European Integration and International Economic Order in cooperation with the Research Center “Normative Orders” at Goethe University