04 December 2015: Debate on National Courts in a European Context
Inviting judges from the Netherlands and the EU, lawyers and scholars, the debate on national courts in a European context will focus on the Urgenda-case on climate change, the education of lawyers to judges and the cooperation between EU and national courts.
Inviting judges from the Netherlands and the EU, lawyers and scholars, the debate on national courts in a European context will focus on the Urgenda-case on climate change, the education of lawyers to judges and the cooperation between EU and national courts.
Venue: Faculty of Law, Bouillonstraat 1-3, Statenzaal C1.302
Time: 14.30-16.00 hrs
Leader of the debate: Monica Claes (Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law)
Speakers:
*Koos van den Berg (Lawyer for Urgenda, Höcker Advocaten Amsterdam)
*Taru Spronken (Advocate-General, Dutch Supreme Court)
*Bruno De Witte (Professor of European Union law, Maastricht University)
*Sacha Prechal (Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union)
16:30 Inaugural Marc de Werd
Contact person: Anniek de Ruijter (d.deruijter@maastrichtuniversity.nl)