Central Europe research platforms

2022-11-30

As part of its international cooperation efforts, the Justice Institute organised a conference of the Polish-Croatian, Polish-Slovak and Polish-Ukrainian Research Platforms. Legal topics discussed included artificial intelligence, legal protection of older people, mediation and the administrative judiciary.

In addition to extensive cooperation as part of the Polish-Hungarian Platform, the Justice Institute is now conducting research together with Slovak, Croatian and Ukrainian scholars as well. A conference of research teams from all these countries took place remotely on 23 November 2022. “It is with pleasure that I open a conference summarising the work of three research teams. Today, we are meeting online, but I hope that the next edition of our project will see us reunite at the Justice Institute in Warsaw,” Dr hab. Marcin Wielec, professor of the Stefan Wyszyński University of Warsaw and director of the Justice Institute, says.

The academic conference summarised the efforts of nine researchers from Croatia, Slovakia and Ukraine who for the last few months have been surveying four topics: artificial intelligence, legal protection of older people, mediation and the administrative judiciary. “Our goal is to establish long-lasting, strong and close scientific and research cooperation between scholars in our part of Europe. We want our platforms to become a space for wide-ranging debates and exchange of experience as well as a source of new and sound ideas reflecting the specific character of our region,” Prof. Wielec stressed.

The lectures and prolonged debates were devoted to discussing challenges faced by Central and Eastern European countries, including lack of legal regulations able to keep up with social and scientific developments. Research has shown that some of these legal issues are of a universal nature, because they apply to all countries in the region. Further joint research in this respect may help to build a universal model of dealing with the challenges of modernity. “The contents of each paper will be made available in academic publications which each of the scholars has been tasked with writing. We hope to find there concrete proposals for future legal norms that will help us to improve legislation,” Dr Konrad Brudziak, coordinator of the international research platforms project, said.