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THE INSTITUTE FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF COMMUNIST CRIMES AND THE MEMORY OF THE ROMANIAN EXILE

KONRAD ADENAUER STIFTUNG THE FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, BUCHAREST UNIVERSITY

TRANSITIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN POST-DICTATORIAL SOCIETIES

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

BUCHAREST 29-30 OCTOBER

Venue:

IICCMER,

Strada Alecu Russo, nr. 13-19, sector 2, Et. 5, Bucureşti

Friday 29 October

9.30 – 10.00 Opening

Ioan Stanomir, Executive President, IICCMER

Holger Dix, Director, KAS Representations Romania & Moldova

Laurentiu Vlad, Dean, Faculty of Political Science, Bucharest University

Panel 1: Chairman: Ioan Stanomir (IICCMER)

10.00 – 10.20Jernej Letnar Černič (European Faculty of Law, Slovenia)

Consolidating Democracy through Transitional Justice in Slovenia: Lessons Learnt?

10.20 – 10.40 Agata Fijalkowski (Lancaster University Law School, UK)

Transitional Criminal Justice: The Polish Way

10.40 – 11.00 Arolda Elbasani (Social Science Research Centre, Berlin)

Politics and Debates in the Pursuit of Transitional Justice: Comparing Albania and Poland

11.00 – 11.30Discussions

11.30 – 12.00Coffee Break

Panel 2: Chairman: Bogdan Iacob (IICCMER)

12.00 – 12.20 Raluca Ursachi (University of Paris I – Pantheon - Sorbonne)

Transitional Trials as History Writing: The Case of the Romanian 1989 Events

12.20 – 12.40 Raluca Grosescu (The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile)

Factors that Influence Transitional Criminal Justice: The Romanian Case

12.40 – 13.00 Julie Trappe (German Foundation for International Legal Coorperation, Bonn / Germany) - TBC

Dilemmas of Transitional Justice - Romanian Criminal Justice Confronting Communist State Crime

13.00 – 13.30Discussions

13.30 – 15.30 Lunch

Panel 3:Chairman: Ruxandra Ivan (Faculty of Political Science, Bucharest University)

15.30 – 15.50David Sugarman (Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Law and Society, Lancaster University, UK)

Late Justice: Chile since the 1973 Coup

15.50 – 16.10James Gallen (PhD Candidate School of Law in Trinity College Dublin)

Transitional Justice in Nepal: Prosecutions, Reform and Accountability Strategies

16.10 – 16.30Emilian Cioc (Babes-Boylai University, Cluj-Napoca)

And Justice for All. Promises of the Rule of Law

16.30 – 17.00 Discussions

19.00 Dinner

Panel 4: Chairman: Adrian Cioflâncă (IICCMER)

9.30 – 9.50Piero Sullo (Law Faculty, University Ateneo Federico II, Naples, Italy)

Genocide, Memory and Criminal Justice: The ‘Constitutional Role’ of the Criminal Law on Genocide Ideology

9.50 – 10.10 Patricia Pinto Soares (Researcher, Department of Law, European University Institute, Florance, Italy)

Positive Complementarity: Fine-tuning the Transitional Justice Discourse?

10.10 – 10.30Ruxandra Ivan (Faculty of Political Science, Bucharest University)

International politics of justice: the political underpinnings of the emergence of an international regime

10.30 – 11.00 Discussions

11.00 – 11.30 Summary & Book Project

Raluca Grosescu & Raluca Ursachi