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Academy of European Public Law (AEPL)

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Now celebrates its 29 session

New Curatorium and new Director of the AEPL

The Academy of European Public Law is academically under the responsibility
of its Academic Director, the Alternate Academy Director and the Curatorium
and it forms part of the ELGS. In December 2022, the structure of the
Curatorium changed and new members were appointed. The Curatorium has
an Honorary President and is composed of top-ranking lawyers from all over
the world.
The Curatorium is composed of:
Honorary President
Marco D’Alberti, Professor, Judge, Constitutional Court of Italy

Members
Nilay Arat, Associate Professor, University Kadir Has, Turkey
Bernardo Diniz de Ayala, Professor, Uría Menendez-Proença de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
Jacobine van de Brink, Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Isaac Martín Delgado, Professor, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Flora Goudappel, Professor, Dean School of Law, University of Curaçao, Curaçao, Kingdom of the Netherlands
Thomas Gross, Professor, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Ludmila Malíková, Professor, University of Slovakia, Slovakia

A new Academic Director, Prof. Anikó Szalai, Assoc. Professor, University of Szeged, was also appointed and
succeeded Prof. Gordon Antony who served successfully this position for several years.

Prof. Marco D’ Alberti, Honorary President of the AEPL Prof. Anikó Szalai, Academic Director of the AEPL

The Academy of European Public Law celebrated its 28 session last summer and its 29 session this summer,
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successfully training more than 500 students since its inception. The 2022 AEPL, which was concluded on 10
September 2022, was attended by fourteen students and four successfully defended their thesis dissertation.
Moving onto the 2023 AEPL, the program started on 28 August 2023, and is held in hybrid format, both online
and on premise. The program will conclude on 16 September 2023 with the award of Certificates and Diplomas,
as every year. This year, five students are scheduled to defend their theses as part of the AEPL I.LL.M program.

The lecturers of this year’s session are:
Vasilka Sancin, Professor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia: “Current Challenges of Human Rights Law”.
Anikó Szalai, Associate Professor, University of Szeged, Hungary: “Business and Human Rights”.
Yutaka Arai, Professor, Brussels School of International Studies, Kent University: “Fundamental Rights and
Technology”.
Maria De Benedetto, Professor, Roma Tre University, Italy: “Anti-corruption Strategies”.

The AEPL welcomes one or more annual guest lecturer(s). The guest lecturers for the year 2023 are:
Nilay Arat, Associate Professor, Kadir Has University, Turkey: “Sustainability, human rights and the state”.
Pascale Gonod, Professor, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne: “Le principe d’égal accès aux fonctions
publiques en Europe (étude comparée)”.
Eser Karakaş, Professor, University of Strasbourg, France: “Law and Economics”.

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