PROGRAMME
Welcome:
Opening by Kjell Larsson, President of Feantsa
The obligations of Member States in relation to the right to housing through European case law
- Did you say, “binding obligations? - Maria José Aldanas, policy officer, Feantsa & Coordinator of Housing Rights Watch
A dialogue with judges:
FACILITATION: Rafael Cid, lawyer and director of legal strategy, GENTIUM
- Giuseppe Palmisano, former President and current General Rapporteur of the ECSR
- Lucia Serena Rossi, judge at the court of justice of the European Union
- Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, judge at the ECHR from 2011 to 2020, Professor at the Catholic University, Lisbon
Implementing positive obligations: the responsibility of public authorities. Using environmental litigation as a model for housing right
FACILITATION: Nicolas Bernard, professor of Law at the University of Saint-Louis, Belgium
- Marine Yzquierdo, lawyer, member of Notre Affaire à Tous, France
- Delphine Misonne, professor of law at the University of Saint-Louis, Belgium
- Koldo Casla, lecturer in law at the University of Essex, England
Workshops:
Loss of home: what are the requirements of the principle of proportionality?
FACILITATION: Padraic Kenna, director of the Centre for Housing Law, Rights and Policy, NUI Galway, Ireland
- The principle of proportionality in the decisions of the ECSR, Javier Rubio, lawyer at the Centre for Advice and Social Studies, Spain
- Forced evictions and the principle of proportionality, Senada Dali, legal director, ERRC
Controlling property markets against price and rights abuses
FACILITATION: Marc Uhry, City of Villeurbanne, France
- The place of social housing in the market balance, Virginie Toussain, legal officer, Social Union for Housing, France
- Rent controls and rental protections, Max Althoff, lawyer, Germany
- Land tenure regulation in the Netherlands, Dr Julie Lawson, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT - AHURI
Strategy to end fuel poverty
FACILITATION: Juan Carlos Benito Sanchez, human rights researcher and consultant, Belgium
- Energy efficiency in housing: update on EU regulations and subsidies, national examples, Louise Sunderland, senior advisor to the Regulatory Assistance Project, England
- The right to energy of the "vulnerable consumer", Marlies Hesselman, senior lecturer in international law, University of Groningen, Netherland
Find the full programme here.
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