On 20-21 September 2024, in the framework of the 10th anniversary of RACSE/ANESC, Milan and Bergamo were the hosts of the Conference entitled The European Social Charter Through the Lens of the National Legal Systems, co-organised by Universita Degli Studi di Milano and Universita Degli Studi di Bergamo, and RACSE/ANESC (member of OCEAN).
For this special event, 14 speakers from France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain, presented the specificities of the European Social Charter, how the national legal systems reflect the provisions of this regional instrument and how it is applied in practice by the national courts of law and by the constitutional courts.
We were extremely happy that the Council of Europe was represented to this Conference by Professor Kristine Dupate, General Rapporteur of the European Committee of Social Rights, who gave a lecture on the topic The ECSR’s View of the Effectiveness and Binding Force of the European Social Charter and the Committee’s Pronouncement’s in National Legal Systems, and by Ph.D. Gioia Scappucci, from the Secretariat of the Council of Europe, who gave a lecture on the topic The Monitoring Mechanism and Follow-Up to Conclusions and Decisions of the European Committee of Social Rights.
The RACSE/ANESC was represented by its General Coordinator, Professor Cristina Samboan (University of Artifex, Bucharest), and its Honnorary General Coordinators, Professor Jean-François Akandji-Kombé (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Professor Giovanni Guiglia (Università di Verona).
Additionally, other active members of the RACSE/ANESC were present to this Conference – we shall mention them in an alphabetical order – Professors Stefano Angeleri (University of Limerick), Silvia Borelli (Università di Ferrara), Catarina Santos Botelho (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Porto), Anna-Maria Konsta (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki), Benedetta Liberali (Università di Milano), Lorenza Mola (Università di Torino), Carole Nivard (Université de Rouen, Normandie), Fabrizio Proietti (Università di Roma La Sapienza), Laura-Cristiana Spataru-Negura (University of “Nicolae Titulescu” Bucharest, in her capacity of Deputy Secretary of RACSE/ANESC).
To the conference works have also participated, physically or online, Professor Chiara Amalfitano (Head of the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law at the University of Milano), Prof. Francisco Balaguer Callejón (Universidad de Granada), Professor Corrado Del Bò (Head of the Department of Law at the University of Bergamo), Ph.D. Filippo Croci (Università di Milano), Attorney-at-law Antonino La Lumia (President of the Milano Bar Association), Attorney-at-law Marco Zambelli (Vice-president of the Bergamo Bar Association), and other participants.
In the excitement of this successful event, we express our gratitude to our colleagues who made it worthwhile, Professor Marilisa D’Amico (Universita Degli Studi di Milano) and Professor Silvio Troilo (Universita Degli Studi di Bergamo), and Ph.D. Paolo Gambatesa (Universita Degli Studi di Milano).
From insightful discussions to the interaction and good vibes of the participants, all contributed significantly to this rich and rewarding event.
For further information, please note that the program of this Conference can be found here/.
