Roger Errera is a former senior member of the Conseil d’Etat, France’s Supreme Court for administrative law.

He was, until 2010, Visiting Professor at the Central European University in Budapest, where he taught free speech and judicial review of administrative action.
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London September 23, 2011

Franco-British Lawyers Society.

Colloquium: "Privacy in an open society".

Paper: "On the origins and content of Article 9 of the Code civil on the right to privacy" (in English).

Bled (Slovenia) September 9, 2011

International Association of Refugee Law Judges.

International Conference: "Between border control, security concerns and international protection: a judicial perpective".

Paper: "A new supra-national court of refugee and asylum law: The Court of Justice of the European Union. A commentary of its recent case law" (in English, available on the IARLJ's website).

For more information about the IARLJ, see http://www.iarlj.org/general/

London June 17, 2011

Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law.

International Seminar "National and international aspects of the Rule of law".

Paper: "Rule of law, Etat de droit and Rechtsstaat: some reflections" (in English).

Paris May 6, 2011

International conference on "Genocide denials and the law".

Opening speech: "History, memory and law" (in English).

Chair, first panel: "Historical perspective: Genocies, Nazi law and denial".

Budapest April 14, 2011

International Association of Women Judges. Regional conference.

Lecture: "Gender - related issues in refugee and asylum law: women" (in English).

Budapest April 13, 2011

Central European University.

Lecture: "Refugee and asylum law in Europe: Recent developments and perspectives".

London December 6, 2010

Royal Courts of Justice
Launch of the Bingham Centre.
http://www.biicl.org/binghamcentre/

Speech available here

Paris November 23, 2010

Ecole nationale de la magistrature (French National School for the Judiciary)

Participation to a training session for judges on media law. Paper: "Reflections on the evolution of press law and the legitimate restrictions of a fundamental freedom"   

Saint-Petersburg November 2010

November 16: Saint-Petersburg Law School. Speech on the European Convention on Human Rights.

November 18-20: Participation to the international conference organised by the Institute of law and Public Policy on "The European Convention of Human Rights and fundamental liberties in  the XXIst Century".

Paper on "The European Court of Human Rights and Interim measures : Scope of powers and Consequences for domestic Courts".

Commentary of the papers of Professors W. Sadurski "Eastward Enlargement of the Council of Europe and Constitutionalization of the European Court of Human Rights" and R. Arnold "The European Convention of Human Rights as an Element of European Constitutional Law"

Lisbon September 23, 2010

Oxford June 4-5,  2010
Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom

Workshop organised by the Dahrendorf Program for the Study of Freedom on "Free Speech. Old Principles, New Circumstances" by Timothy Garton Ash and Jeremy Waldron.

Paper on "Group libel and hate speech laws", in response to Timothy Garton Ash's presentation on "Violence, Law and Civility".

Edinburgh May 27, 2010

Conference organised by the Scottish Section of the Franco-British Lawyers Society on "State Policy and Religious Manifestation".

Paper on "Secularism, Separation, State Intervention and Religious Expression in France: Recent Developments".

Paris  February 10, 2010

Paris II Panthéon-Assas University

Ceremony organised on the occasion of the award of the Legion of Honour to Professor Catherine Kessedjian, Professor at the Paris- II Panthéon-Assas University.

Speech (in French)

Saint-Petersburg November 19-21, 2009
Saint-Petersburg Justice academy

Conference : "The role of the French Constitutional Council regarding the protection of fundamental rights and liberties".

November 20-21, 2009 : 

Attending the meeting organized by the Institute of Law and Public Policy : 

Paper:  "The right of property and freedom of enterprise in French constitutional law". 

Berlin  October 19, 2009
European association for Refugee Law Judges 

Lecture: "The situation post Elgafaji"

(comment of the decision of the Court of justice of the european Union, February 17th, 2009, Elgafaji)

9 AM  

Europäische Akademie, 46/48 Bismarck Allee.

Prague March 14, 2009
Jan Vladislav died on March 3rd, aged 86 

Roger Errera attended, in Prague, the burial of his friend Jan Vladislav, writer and translator. Roger Errera was interviewed on Radio Praha and spoke about his friendship with Jan Vladislav, who was among the first signatories of the Charter 77.

Read the interview on Radio Praha's website (in French).