ICON S Conference 17 – 19 June 2016 Humboldt University Berlin

saturday 18 JUNE 2016 → UL6 Audimax
11:30 am – Plenary Session III
1:00 pm Judicial Interview
and Dialogue
PLENARY Events
Koen Lenaerts
President of the Court of
Justice of the European Union
Koen Lenaerts is the President
of the Court of Justice of the
European Union. From 1989 to
2003, he has been a Judge of
the European Court of the First
Instance. Since 2003, he has
been a Judge of the European Court of Justice and
became its Vice-President in 2012 and its President in
2015. Koen Lenaerts is a Professor of European Law at
the University of Leuven and the Founder and Director
of the university’s Institute of European Law. He is also
an Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple
in London.
Interviewed by
Joseph H. H. Weiler
European University Institute
J. H. H. Weiler is President of the
European University Institute
and University Professor, New
York University School of Law
(on leave). He is Editor-in-Chief
of the European Journal of International
Law and Co-Editorin-Chief
of the International
Journal of Constitutional Law
( ICON S ).
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Guido Raimondi
President of the European
Court of Human Rights
Guido Raimondi is the President
of the European Court of Human
Rights (ECHR) since 2015.
He was a Vice-President of the
ECHR from 2012 until 2015 and
has served as a Judge on the
ECHR since 2010. One of the main focuses of his professional
life both on the bench and beyond has been
rights issues. He has been a member of the judiciary
since 1977. From 1989 to 1997, he was a Co-Agent of
the Italian Government before the European Court of
Human Rights. While serving on the Italian Court of Cassation,
he has occasionally been an ad hoc Judge in
cases before the ECHR. Guido Raimondi was Deputy
Legal Adviser and Legal Adviser of the International
Labour Organization ( ILO) between 2003 and 2010.
Gráinne de Búrca
New York University
Gráinne de Búrca is the Co-
President of the International
Society of Public Law ( ICON S )
and Florence Ellinwood Allen
Professor of Law at New York
University School of Law. She
is the Co-Director of the Jean
Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic
Law and Justice and the Faculty Director of the
Hauser Global Law School at NYU Law. From 1998
to 2006, she was the Co-Director of the Academy of
European Law at the European University Institute in
Florence. Gráinne de Búrca is the Co-Author of the
leading OUP textbook on EU Law and the Co-Editorin-Chief
of the International Journal of Constitutional
Law ( I CON ). Her main field of research is European
Union law, and she is also interested in questions of
European constitutional law and governance, human
rights and discrimination and international relations.