(Preliminary) Programme of the plenary session
Menu for Justice
24-25 November 2011
Venue: Fondation Universitaire, Rue d’Egmont, n° 11, 1000 Brussels
DAY 1: THURSDAY 24 November 2011
9.00: Registration
9.30 - 9.45: Opening speech/welcome
Didier Viviers, Rector of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Jean-Michel De Waele, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, ULB
Marianne Dony, Director of the Institute for European Studies, ULB
9:45 -10.45: ROUNDTABLE 1:
JUDICIAL Education and Training: Gaps, Barriers and Innovations
10.45 – 11.00: coffee break
11.00 – 12.30 ROUNDTABLE 2:
UNDERGRADUATE Education in Judicial Studies: Gaps, Barriers and Innovations
12.30-14.00: lunch
14.00 – 15.30: ROUNDTABLE 3:
GRADUATE and PHD Education in Judicial Studies: Gaps, Barriers and Innovations
15.30 – 16.00: coffee break
16.30 – 17.00: ROUNDTABLE 4
LEGAL PROFESSIONAL Training in Judicial Studies: Gaps, Barriers and Innovations
DAY 2: FRIDAY 25 November 2011
9:00 – 10:00: Participants project proposals
10:00 – 10:30 Legal and Judicial Training & Education in EUROPEAN LAW
Reporting the Findings of a MFJ Survey
Cheryl Thomas to report on Survey, Briefing Paper and new database on this issue created by MFJ
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.30: The PERSPECTIVE OF EUROPEAN JUDICIAL ORGANISATIONS
Chair: Ramona Coman
Roundtable members: external guests (To be confirmed)
12.30-13.30: lunch
13.30 – 15.30: THE NETWORK: Taking Stock and Moving Ahead
Chair: To be appointed
This session will be a full Network Discussion addressing:
What have we learned at this meeting?
What are our agreed priorities for the rest of the project?
What is our Schedule for the remainder of the project?
Using the MFJ website
Suggestions for and commitments to work before next meeting: inc. dissemination of work of Brussels meeting, etc.
15.30 – 16.00 coffee break
16.00 – 17.00: Place, Focus and Format of Next Plenary Meeting 2012
17:30 – 19:30 Meeting of MFJ Steering Committee