Central European University A Program for University Teachers, Advanced Ph.D. Students, Researchers and Professionals in the Social Sciences and Humanities Summer University

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Resource Persons: 

Ágnes Kövér kovera@ajk.elte.hu

Pavol Zilincik zilincik@changenet.sk

Arnold de Vera afdevera@iateneo.com

Mihaela Serban mihaela.serban@nyu.edu

Monday, July 12 Definitions and Introduction to Public Interest Law in Central and Eastern Europe

9:30 – 10:50 Definitions 1 (Holly Maguigan)

Be prepared to offer your own brief definitions of the following terms: public service lawyering, public interest lawyering, cause lawyering, human rights lawyering and globalization.

Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold, Cause Lawyering and the Reproduction of Professional Authority: An Introduction, in Cause Lawyering: Political Commitments and Professional Responsibilities 3-12 (1998).

11:10 – 12:30 Introduction to Public Interest Law in CEE (Ágnes Kövér and Pavol Zilincik)

Petrova, Dimitrina, The development of public interest law in post-communist states: political and legal limitations, Helsinki Monitor, Vol. 7 No.4 (1996).

Introduction to Public Interest Law Initiative, Pursuing the Public Interest: A Handbook for Legal Professionals and Activists (2001), http://www.pili.org/publications/PPI/index.html.

2:00 – 3:00 Library Tour

Tuesday, July 13 Definitions and Introduction to Public Interest Law in Central and Eastern Europe

9:30 – 10:20 Definitions (2) (Holly Maguigan)

Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold, State Transformations, Globalization, and the Possibilities of Cause Lawyering: An Introduction, in Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era 3-15 (Oxford Univ. Press, 2001).

10:30 – 11:20 Sample dilemmas (Holly Maguigan and Arnold de Vera)

11:30 – 12:20 Breakout-small groups (Everyone)

2:00 – 4:00 Library research

Wednesday, July 14 Public Interest Lawyering Strategies and Clinics

9:30 – 10:20 Public Interest Lawyering Strategies (Overview) (Holly Maguigan)

Stephen Ellman, Cause Lawyering in the Third World, in CAUSE LAWYERING: POLITICAL COMMITMENTS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES 349-385 (1998).

10:30 – 11:20 Clinical Legal Education (Holly Maguigan and Ágnes Kövér)

Stephen Golub, Forging the Future: Engaging Law Students and Young Lawyers in Public Service, Human Rights, and Poverty Alleviation, An Open Society Justice Initiative Issues Paper, January 2004.

11:30 – 12:20 Sections (clinics) (Holly Maguigan and Ágnes Kövér)

2:00 – 5:00 Individual student-teacher conferences (dilemmas)

Thursday, July 15 Public Interest Lawyering through Courts: Direct Legal Services/Access to Justice

9:30 – 12:20 Public Interest Lawyering through Courts: Direct Legal Services/Access to Justice (Holly Maguigan, Ágnes Kövér and Arnold de Vera)

Edwin Rekosh, Kyra A. Buchko, Daniel Manning and Vessela Terzieva, Access to Justice: Legal Aid for the Underrepresented, in Access to Justice in Central and Eastern Europe: Source Book, at http://www.pili.org/publications/SourceBook/index.htm.

Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers: The Challenge of Providing "Legal Representation" in the United States, South Africa, and China, 7 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 47, 2001.

3:00 – 5:00 Field Visit (PILI)

Friday, July 16 Field Visit: Regional Environmental Center

Deadline: Turn in Dilemmas

Monday, July 19 Law Reform and Dilemmas

9:30 – 10:20 Dilemmas – Direct Services (2) (Holly Maguigan)

10:30 – 12:20 Law Reform and the Advancement of the PIL Agenda in CEE (Frank Upham)

Carothers, Thomas, The Rule of Law Revival, Foreign Affairs Mar./Apr. 1998, 95-106.

Stephen Golub, Beyond Rule of Law Orthodoxy: The Legal Empowerment Alternative, Carnegie Endowment Working Paper No. 41, Rule of Law Series, Democracy and Rule of Law Project (Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, October 2003).

2:00 – 3:00 Library Research

5:00 Distribute Dilemmas & Dilemma Schedule

5:00 – 7:00 Movie

Tuesday, July 20 Law Reform, Dilemmas and Field Visit

10:30 – 12:00 Law Reform – movie discussion (Frank Upham)

12:00 – 12:50 Law Reform – Dilemmas (2) (Frank Upham)

Leon E. Irish, Karla W. Simon, The Role of a Good Legal Framework - Capacity Building and Sustainability, A Paper Presented at the "NGOs in a Global Future" Conference, Birmingham, England, January 10 - 13, 1999, http://www.icnl.org/gendocs/Birmingham.htm.

3:00 – 5:00 Library Research

Wednesday, July 21 Dilemmas and Non-Litigation Strategies

10:30 – 11:20 Dilemmas (2) (Everyone)

11:30 – 12:20 Introduction to Non-Litigation Strategies (Ágnes Kövér and Pavol Zilincik)

Ronen Shamir and Neta Ziv, State-Oriented and Community-Oriented Lawyering for a Cause, in Sarat and Scheingold, Cause Lawyering and the State in a Global Era.

2:00 – 2:50 Dilemmas (2) (Everyone)

3:00 – 4:50 Sections (non-litigation) (Ágnes Kövér, Pavol Zilincik, Diana Hortsch, Arnold de Vera and Mihaela Serban)

Dianne Post, Women's Rights in Russia: Training Non-Lawyers to Represent Victims of Domestic Violence, 4 Yale H.R. & Dev. L.J. 135, 2001

Keck M.E. and Sikkink K., Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics, International Social Science Journal, March 1999, vol. 51, no. 159.

Peter Vermeersch, Advocacy Networks and Romani Politics in Central and Eastern Europe, Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minorty Issues in Europe (2001).

Thursday, July 22 Field Visit and Teacher-Student Conferences

11:00 – 12:50 Field Visit: International Center for Not-for-Profit Law

2:00 – 5:00 Individual student-teacher conferences (dilemmas)

Friday, July 23 Field Visit and Library Research

9:30 – 12:30 Field Visit: European Roma Rights Centre

2:00 – 5:00 Library Research

Monday, July 26 NGO Regulation and Accountability and Dilemmas

9:30 – 12:20 NGO Regulation and Accountability (Diana Hortsch and Mihaela Serban)

Peter van Tuijl, Responding to Rights at Risk. NGOs in a Disabled Environment, Paper prepared for a workshop of the joint project "Promoting Three Basic Rights: Towards Greater Freedom of Association, Assembly and Speech in Asia," Bangkok, Siam Beverly Hotel, 15-16 July 1997.

Hugo Slim, By What Authority? The Legitimacy and Accountability of Non-governmental Organizations, The International Council on Human Rights Policy International Meeting on Global Trends and Human Rights - Before and after September 11 (Geneva, January 10-12, 2002), http://www.itp.sssup.it/advancedreadings/humanitarian/slim.pdf 

Sam Vaknin, The Self-Appointed Altruists, United Press International, October 9, 2002, http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/2002/Oct02/Vaknin.htm 

2:00 – 5:00 Dilemmas (6) (Everyone)

Tuesday, July 27 Public Interest Lawyering through Courts: Impact Litigation

9:30 – 12:20 Public Interest Lawyering through Courts: Impact Litigation (Frank Upham and Pavol Zilincik)

Susan D. Susman, Distant Voices in the Courts of India: Transformation of Standing in Public Interest Litigation, 13 Wisc. Int’l L. J. 58-103 (1994).

James A. Goldston, Race Discrimination Litigation in Europe: Problems and Prospects, Roma Rights, Fall 1998, http://www.errc.org/rr_aut1998/notebook-discrimination.shtml.

2:00 – 5:00 Library Research

Wednesday, July 28 Field Visit and Teacher-Student Conferences

9:30 – 12:30 Field Visit: Hungarian Civil Liberties Union

2:00 – 5:00 Individual Teacher-Student Conferences

Thursday, July 29 Dilemmas

9:30 – 12:20 Dilemmas (6) (Everyone)

Friday, July 30 Exit Conferences

10:30 – 12:30 Exit Conferences (Everyone)

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