BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251107T151819EST-8898CFXCvI@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251107T201819Z DESCRIPTION:\n At a moment of democratic crisis in Europe\, when far-right p arties are gaining power\, courts are expected to act as key defenders of rights and freedoms. In the discussion of their book\, La démocratie en ét at d'urgence\, Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez and Antoine Vauchez examine how France's highest courts-the Council of State and the Constitutional Counci l-have often reinforced executive power rather than limiting it\, revealin g how judicial practices may be contributing to the erosion of democratic trust and legitimacy.\n\n  \n\n Biography\n\n \n \n \n Stéphanie Hennette Vauche z is a Professor of Public Law at Paris Nanterre University and a senior m ember of the Institut universitaire de France. Her research explores gende r\, bioethics\, secularism\, and restrictions on freedoms\, with recent wo rks including La démocratie en état d'urgence (2022) and De Haute Lutte. L a révolution de l'avortement (2025).\n \n Antoine Vauchez is a Research Dire ctor at CNRS and Director of the European Center for Sociology and Politic al Science (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/EHESS). His work examines the rise o f European and neoliberal forms of governance\, and he is the author of Th e Neoliberal Republic (2021) and Brokering Europe (2015).\n \n \n \n\n  \n\n DTSTART:20251030T170000Z DTEND:20251030T183000Z LOCATION:Stephen Allan Scott Seminar Room 16\, New Chancellor Day Hall SUMMARY:Judges Too Wise For Their Own Good: Is Anyone Still Protecting Civi l Liberties in France? URL:/law/channels/event/judges-too-wise-their-own-good -anyone-still-protecting-civil-liberties-france-368594 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR