The Role of the Supreme Court in Strengthening the Values ​​of the Constitution

Time and venue of the Conference

September 9, 2022, AC HOTEL RIGA Conference hall, Rīga, Dzirnavu iela 33

Objective

The conference is dedicated to the centenary of the fundamental law of the Latvian state – the Constitution of the Republic of Latvia, emphasizing the role of the Supreme Court in strengthening the values of the Constitution. The conference is organized by the Supreme Court of Latvia within the project the Senate about the Constitution

Participants

• Senators and legal research counsels of the Supreme Court of Latvia
• Judges of the Supreme Courts of Lithuania, Estonia, Austria and the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic
• Members of the Judicial Council
• Chairs of regional courts and district (city) courts
• Deans of Faculties of Law

Programme

Welcome addresses

• Chief Justice Aigars STRUPIŠS
• State President Egils LEVITS
• Deputy Speaker of the Saeima Inese LĪBIŅA-EGNERE
• Prime Minister Krišjānis KARIŅŠ
• President of the Constitutional Court Aldis LAVIŅŠ
• Former Justice of the US Supreme Court Stephen G. BREYER

Part I. Challenges of applying the provisions of the Constitution in these days

Moderated by Aigars STRUPIŠS, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

The purpose of separation of powers and the role of the court in achieving it

• Sanita OSIPOVA, Professor at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Law

Challenges of the application of the Austrian Constitution within the framework of the European Union

• Gerhard Kuras, Judge of the Supreme Court of Austria, President of the Supreme Court’s Civil Law Panel

The Direct Application of the Constitution and its Discontents

• Zdeněk Kühn, Judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic

Part II. The Constitution as a source in the rulings of the Supreme Court

Moderated by Jānis PLEPS, Associate Professor at the University of Latvia, Head of the Department of Theory and History of Law

Limits of constitutionality review in Senate rulings

• Aigars STRUPIŠS, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Supreme Court of Estonia between constitution and cassation – a hybrid experience

• Julia Laffranque, Judge of the Administrative Law Chamber of the Supreme Court of Estonia, former judge at the European Court of Human Rights

Constitution as a source in the rulings of the Supreme Court of Lithuania

• Sigita Rudėnaitė, Judge of the Supreme Court of Lithuania, Chairperson of the Civil Cases Division, the Acting President of the Supreme Court of Lithuania

CONCLUSION

The constitution needs a judge (in Latvian) 

• Jānis PLEPS

More about the conference

• The international conference will highlight the role of the Supreme Courts in strengthening the values of the Constitution
• A judge gives life to the Constitution and applies it to date

More about the project Senate about the Constitution

• See here