Introduction & opening remarks by conf. univ. dr. Bogdan IANCU (PI, ROLPERIPHERAL)

Is democracy, free speech in particular, sustainable in view of the changes in human anthropology due to social media? Are the classical normative assumptions of citizens of equal rational cognitive capacity sustainable, given the rise and pervasiveness of social media? Is democracy sustainable at all, if the anthropological assumptions are gone?

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András SAJÓ is a former judge at the European Court of Human Rights, Strasbourg (2009-17). He is a University Professor at CEU. Professor Sajo was the founding dean of Legal Studies at CEU. In addition to his stature as a prominent constitutionalist, he is also a distinguished scholar in the human rights field, including media regulation.

Professor Sajo has been extensively involved in legal drafting throughout Eastern Europe. In addition, he participated and/or advised in drafting the Ukrainian, Georgian, and South African constitutions.

He served as Counsel to the President of the Republic of Hungary (1991-1992) and chaired the Media Codification Committee of the Hungarian Government (1994). He also was the principal draftsman of the Environment Code for the Hungarian Parliament (1991-1992), as well as the founder and speaker of the Hungarian League for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. He has also served as Deputy Chair of the National Deregulation Board of Hungary.

More at: https://people.ceu.edu/andras_sajo

The lecture will be followed by Q&A and a small reception after the event.

This conference is organized within the research project Rule of Law at the European Periphery: (Dis)incentive Structures and Conceptual Shifts (ROLPERIPHERAL), supported by UEFISCDI Exploratory Research (PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0319), and hosted by New Europe College, Bucharest.