This panel discussion will reflect on how domestic courts around the world have been dealing with attacks on constitutional democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law.
Domestic and regional human rights courts around the world are under pressure. Populist, illiberal, nationalistic and autocratic attitudes and practices have led to attacks on constitutional democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law across the globe. Unsurprisingly, domestic courts, key institutional guardians of constitutional democracy and fundamental rights, have been targeted, alongside the human rights courts that provide international oversight of these values.
In September 2022, the Centre for Fundamental Rights hosted an online symposium in collaboration with Verfassungsblog on 'Coping Strategies: Domestic and International Courts in Times of Backlash' and offered a comparative account of how domestic and regional human rights courts across the globe have been dealing with this precarious situation. The symposium brought together eminent scholars and practitioners addressing the ‘coping strategies’ of courts in Brazil, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States alongside the European Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
This panel discussion is a follow-up to the symposium. Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer (Professor of Constitutional Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), Bertil Emrah Oder (Dean and Professor of Constitutional Law at Koç University Law School) and Silvia Steininger (Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg), along with Başak Çalı (Professor of International Law at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights) and Cathryn Costello (Professor of Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights) and Luise Quaritsch (editor at Verfassungsblog) will reflect on and discuss the core findings of the symposium.
Speakers
Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Research Fellow of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Bertil Emrah Oder is the Dean and Professor of Constitutional Law at Koç University Law School, Istanbul.
Silvia Steininger is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt.
Conveners
Başak Çalı is a Professor of International Law at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
Cathryn Costello is a Professor of Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Centre for Fundamental Rights.
Luise Quaritsch is an editor at Verfassungsblog.
