La Faculté de Droit, d'Économie et de Finance de l'Université du Luxembourg invite Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk, professeur de droit de l'Académie polonaise des sciences, à donner une conférence sur le tribunal constitutionnel polonais au regard du droit européen le 13 janvier de 12 heures à 13h45.

Lecture by Krystyna Kowalik-Bańczyk, professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Visiting scholar at the University of Luxembourg.

The lecture will present the “European” jurisprudence of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal from the moment of the Polish accession to the European Union until present. The evolution of attitude of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal towards European Union will be analyzed both from the point of view of sovereignty dilemma and the principle of loyalty to the EU.

The Polish Constitutional Tribunal is one of the most visible participants of the judicial dialogue between the Court of Justice of the European Union and constitutional courts of the EU Member States. Particularly some basic principles of the EU legal order, like the principle of primacy and direct effect, are still at the core of the dialogue. The very recent jurisprudence on notification of hazard machines indicates that the Polish Constitutional Tribunal still has its own interpretation of some of those principles.

The lecture will also address the recent changes in the functioning of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal with an aim of speculating if the attitude of this court might further evolve.