Rule of Law as Lawfare Conference - DAY TWO part 2

Joint conference of the Danube Institute, the Center for Fundamental Rights and The European Conservative.

The conference was organized around several thematic sessions, with both keynote speakers and panel discussions. Together, participants addressed a range of issues pertaining to the terminology and practice of the "rule of law," as well as its abuse and manipulation by special interest groups, and its correct application and defense.

Programme:

13:20 PM - 13:40 PM Keynote Address by MK Simcha Rothman, Member of the Knesset (IS)

13:40 PM - 14:50 PM Presentation Panel: ‘When the Rule of Law Breaks Down’
Presenter / Moderator: Sébastien Meuwissen, Visiting Fellow, Center for Fundamental Rights (PL)
Fred de Fossard, Head of the British Prosperity Unit at the Legatum Institute (UK)
Alejandro Peña Esclusa, writer, analyst, political consultant, Venezuela (YV)
Javier Torrox, analyst, journalist, translator (ES)

14:50 PM - 15:10 PM Coffee Break

15:10 PM - 16:20 PM Presentation Panel: ‘Anglosphere and Human Rights’
Presenter / Moderator: John O’Sullivan CBE, President, Danube Institute (UK)
Prof. Hadley Arkes, President of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding (US)
David McGrogan, Associate Professor of Law, Northumbria Law School (UK)
Jonathan Price, Matraszek Fellow, University of Oxford (US/UK)

16:20 PM - 16:30 PM Concluding Remarks by Ofir Haivry, Vice-President, Herzl Institute of Jerusalem, co-founder, Edmund Burke Foundation (IS)