During the six years of the project, we participated in numerous “related events” – conferences, workshops or simple paper presentations, where we could engage with our colleagues interested in our approach to European constitutionalism. Altogether, we counted over 50 such events. For example, we were extremely delighted to have…

Program Tuesday 10 December 13h30 | Reception 14h | Local Meanings of EU Law: What’s the point and what methods? Afroditi Marketou (University Paris-Est Creteil) Joana Mendes (University of Luxembourg) Bruno De Witte (University of Maastricht and EUI) Jan Komarek (University of Copenhagen)…

Thanks to Prof. Fernanda Nicola, Jan could present his book project on Imaginary Factory at the American University, Washington College of Law and get comments from: Daniela Caruso, Professor of law emerita, Boston University School of Law Bojan Bugarič, Professor of law, University of Sheffield School of Law Bill Davies,…

The University of Chicago Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression: Exploring Academic Freedom with Professor David Rabban Join the Chicago Forum for a conversation about academic freedom on college campuses with Professor David Rabban. Rabban is the Dahr Jamail, Randall Hage Jamail, and Robert Lee Jamail Regents Chair…

LSE Law School, Lunch Seminar Jan Komárek: The imaginary factory: Constitutional scholars and EUrope’s constitutionalism Blurb: The book, whose introductory chapter will be presented at the seminar, examines how constitutional scholars and their ideas on European integration contributed to making constitutionalism the key imaginary during the time of Europe’s deep…

From the conference website: The “Towards Illiberal Constitutionalism in East Central Europe: Historical Analysis in Comparative and Transnational Perspectives” research project studies the rise of authoritarian governments in East Central Europe and far right and populist movements across Europe that has sparked concern that the liberal democratic order established…

“The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence”, Madrid, Spain (July 8-10), IE Law School Jan Komárek convened one panel on “The infrastructure of the Digital Public Sphere of European Law” Description: While European law professors have been blogging and tweeting for a while, only recently has…

Mountain seminar is a regular gathering of scholars interested in public law in Europe (very broadly conceived) founded by Marco Dani and Jan Komárek in 2017. This year Jan presented his book project tentatively titled The rise and fall of European constitutionalism: from utopia to ideology, 1980-2009. It will be…

Organised by the Common Law Society in Prague  at the Faculty of Law, Charles University. Komárek’s lecture was on “Právní vědci v digitální sféře: zachrání svět (nebo alespoň Evropu)?”.

Thanks to the kind invitation of Professor Armin von Bogdandy, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Jan Komárek could present there his draft reply to Alexander Somek and Elisabeth Paar, ‘Europe’s political constitution’, which critically engaged some of the arguments that Komárek…

Commentator: J.H.H. Weiler, University Professor, Director of The Jean Monnet Center From the Author: I set aside a non-trivial question of whether a theory of EU constitutional law is even possible (and if so, how such theory might look like).  I assume that the field of scholarly inquiry that is…

Can (and should) constitutional scholars save liberal democracy? Lessons from Europe and the US Jan Komárek (University of Copenhagen) and Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University) in conversation Moderated by Turkuler Isiksel (Columbia University) Scholars of law and social science face ever-increasing pressure to be useful to society “outside the ivory tower”.

The EUI Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group organises an event featuring a discussion on Professor Jan Komárek’s edited volume, European Constitutional Imaginaries: Between Ideology and Utopia. How can the EU be made legitimate and sustainable through (constitutional) law? And what is the role of constitutional lawyers and their ideas…

On the invitation of Prof. David Singh Grewal, with the Berkeley Law School Law and Political Economy Society, “Network for a New Political Economy,” and the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program.

Panel “Researching the European Court of Justice” Chair: Fernanda Nicola (American University) Discussant: Daniela Caruso (Boston University) Judicial Biography and the History of EU Law by Will Phelan (Trinity College Dublin) “In This Bureaucratic Silence EU Law Dies:” Fieldwork and the (Non)-Practice of EU Law in National Courts by…

On the invitation of Paul Linden Retek, the long-time colleague (if from afar) of Jan’s, who contributed to our book and also with a working paper.  …

The Meaning of EU Law – Workshop on Law’s Socio-Political and Economic Significance Just like with the development of any political community, the building of a political Europe cannot succeed by adopting rules alone. It also requires the formation of a certain language and discourse through which the…

Panel discussion on Jiří Přibáň’s Constitutional Imaginaries: A Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism (Routledge 2022) was part of the 2022 ICON•S Annual Conference on Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law. Jan Komárek discussed the book with Bojan Bugarič, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Signe Larsen.

Workshop organised by Professor Alexander Somek to discuss The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (Cambridge University Press 2021) by Emilios Christodoulidis – flyer [pdf] .

Paper considered the relationship between EU law academia and the judiciary, as exemplified by the work of Pierre Pescatore. The conference, organised by the MPI Luxembourg for Procedural Law and the University of Luxembourg, sought to promote engagement with Pesctore’s work, in particular with his construction of the Law of…

Presentation contributed to the series of online seminars on “Controversies over Methods in EU Law “, organized by Vincent Réveillère  at the University of Aix-Marseille by the CERIC (Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires) and the LTD (Laboratoire de Théorie du Droit) [pdf].

Interdisciplinary PhD Programme “Society of the Future”, Jagiellonian University in Krakow Programme and course assignments here [pdf].

Organized by the Czech Society for European and Comparative Law, Czech Republic; Discussion around the themes raised in my article “Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship” (2021) 17 European Constitutional Law Review 422 – 441 with colleagues from the Czech Republic.

Jan Komárek presented paper entitled “From legitimacy to ideology: towards ideology critique of European constitutionalism” at the webinar organised jointly by Marco Dani, Marco Goldoni, Agustín J. Menéndez in the course of the preparation of their edited volume, which will discuss Bruce Ackermann’s Revolutionary constitutions: charismatic leadership and the rule…

Team IMAGINE took part in the Annual Danish European Association- European Community Studies Association Conference 2021, organised by our iCourts colleagues Shai Dothan & Juan A. Mayoral. We presented a panel entitled “Exploring European constitutional imaginary’s OTHER” – details here (pdf). Our panel was kindly chaired by Jakob…

On 29 September Birgit Aasa presents her paper on “Mutual Trust and the Rule of Law” at the conference “The Rule of Law Crisis in Europe – Historical and Procedural Aspects” in Lund. In case you want to know more about the paper and Birgit’s research, you can get…

Jan Komárek presented his forthcoming paper on “Freedom and Power of European Constitutional Scholarship” to colleagues at the Center for Global Constitutionalism, part of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.

Exploring European constitutional imaginary‘s OTHER This panel brings together the team of people working on the ERC-funded project IMAGINE – European Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other. We will discuss the key assumptions of the project and specific case studies focused on how the constitutional imaginaries of Europe have…

On Thursday, 10 June Birgit Aasa will present her paper on ‘Mutual Trust and Rule of Law in the EU – an Uneasy Relationship’, the following day Michał Krajewski will talk on ‘The Many Faces of the Rule of Law: The Assets of EU Extra-Judicial Review Mechanisms’. Details…

Due illness, Jan Komárek only delivered (in writing) his paper “From legitimacy to ideology: towards ideology critique of European constitutionalism” at the conference The legitimacy of European constitutional orders: Questioning the revolutionary, establishment and elite pathways, held on 24-28 May 2021 at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento…

The Working Group is generously funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Commission via the Jean Monnet Chair in EU Politics and Law and the EUROGOV Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, both at Trinity College Dublin. Meeting was chaired by Stephen Coutts.

Petr Agha presented “The Forgotten Voices of the Velvet Revolution(s)” at a webinar organised as part of  ‘Dissenting Voices. European thought between tradition and rupture’, Jan Komárek commented.

Jan Komárek presented our project to the working group on constitutional law at the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno (online).

14 December, The Academic Forum of the New University: Revitalization of EU Constitutionalism, Jan Komárek discussed (with Gráinne de Búrca and Neil Walker) Matej Abelj’s IMAGINE Working Paper No. 9; video from the Forum…

Online symposium organized by the Studio Europa Maastricht, Jan Komárek gave a paper on “Speaking of and for the Other: (Post-)communist Europe in European constitutional imaginaries” and Petr Agha on “The forgotten voices of the Velvet Revolution(s)”…

27 November 2020, Jan Komárek shared his experience with the process of working on the application and applying for the ERC Starting Grant with researchers from the Czech Academy of Sciences…

11 November, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, Faculty Night Festival (online), Jan Komárek gave a talk on “Freedom and power of the constitutional professoriat: professors as politicians, businessmen and public intellectuals”. Video from the talk.

16 September, Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, workshop (in Czech, online) České století v právu a politice [The Czech Century in law and politics], Jan Komárek presented paper “Vídeň-Moskva-Brusel-„Západ“: O nesamozřejmé české státnosti” [Vienna-Moscow-Brussels-“The West”: On the non-self-evident Czech statehood] and Petr Agha “Vzpomínka na hranice – patos, politika a populismus”…

1 June 2020, EUI Law Department, EU Law Working Group, Jan Komárek presented (online) paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s constitutional imaginary, Joseph Weiler commentator; Video from the seminar. Final version of the paper presented.

20 May 2020, WZB Berlin, Center for Global Constitutionalism, Jan Komárek presented paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s constitutional imaginary …

25 February 2020, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Jan Komárek presented paper Why read The Transformation of Europe today? On Transformation’s ideology and utopia…

14 and 15 November 2019, The Swedish Network for European Legal Studies, Stockholm, conference 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Rule of Law in the European Union (programme-pdf), Jan Komárek presented paper The rule of law and liberal legalism in (the post-communist) Europe). Abstract: 1989 opened the possibility to…

3 and 4 October 2019, Danish European Community Studies Annual Conference,  Aarhus University, Jan Komárek presented paper European constitutionalism: Towards an ‘ideology critique’ and participated in the round table discussion “Crisis Politics and the Judiciary”, together with Christian Joerges (kick-off speech), Hagen Schulz-Forberg (moderator) and Karen Alter and Graham Butler  (other panelists) (programme here).

19-20 September 2019, IEARN workshop, Giessen – Transformative Constitutionalism in India and the EU, Jan Komárek contributed with a discussion note (programme here-pdf);…

25 June 2019, European Law School, Berlin, Jan Komárek presented  – with Alexandra Kemmerer (Max-Planck-Institut) “Futures Past of European Constitutional Imaginaries in the 1950s and 1990s: A Dialogical Exploration” (programme here – pdf).

12-15 June 2019, Mountain Seminar No. 3 – Jan Komárek presented the key ideas of IMAGINE to colleagues from the Mountain Seminar Society (programme here – pdf);…

3-4 June 2019, fEUtures conference, Roskilde University, Trajectories and Imaginaries of European integration – Jan Komárek presented (via Skype) paper Constitutional Imaginaries: Utopias, Ideologies and the Other (programme here-pdf).

26 April 2019, NYU School of Law, Jean Monnet Center – Jan Komárek presented the key ideas of IMAGINE to Emile Noël Fellows.

25 April 2019, Yale Law School, The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project and the European Law Working Group – Jan Komárek presented paper European constitutionalism: Towards an ‘ideology critique’.