Report from the conference titled “Legal Discourses on International and EU Migration and Refugee Law in Central and Eastern Europe": Emerging new narratives or business as usual? : Charles University Faculty of Law, Prague, 9 and 10 May 2024

Abstract

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Central and Eastern European countries’ membership in the EU, i.e. the 2004 “Big bang” enlargement of EU, the International conference on “Legal discourses on international and EU migration and refugee law in Central and Eastern Europe: emerging new narratives or business as usual?” was held at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague on 9 and 10 May 2024. The conference organization committee comprised of Dr. Věra Honusková and Dr.habil. Tamás Molnár (with the respective faculties involved as organizing entities). They organized the conference as an in-person European Society of International Law (ESIL)-supported event with the support of the Institute for Legal Studies – Hungary (within the HUN-REN Centre for Social Sciences), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), European Commission’s Representation in the Czech Republic, the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the Odysseus Academic Network.