Rule of Law Program

The Rule of Law program was the first program to be established at EICEE, indicating the capital importance of this issue to the promotion of stable, free and just societies. The protection of the rights of every citizen is a prerequisite for peace, prosperity and social progress. Nothing can substitute for a rigorous intellectual grounding in this fundamental area.

 Recent themes and Speakers

• The Politcal Theory of John Rawls
  The Neuwaldegg Institute
  Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Democracy and Multiculturalism
  Senate of Czech Parliament
  Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• Exploring F.A. Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
  Senate of Czech Parliament
  Prague, Czech Republic

• 230th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence/5th anniversary of 9/11
  Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  Civic Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
  
  
• Law and Freedom in the Central European Context
  Dr. Jan Carnogursky (former Prime Minister of Slovakia)
  
  
• Conferences or short courses led by
  Dr. Russell Hittinger (Chairman of Philosophy department, University of Tulsa)
  
  • The Rule of Law and Free Society
    
  • Fundamentals of Philosophy of Law
    
  • Four Great Philosophers of Law
    
  • The Rule of Law: Basis of Political Stability
    
    
• Foundations of Just and Equal Social Relations
  Dr. Michael Pakaluk (Philosophy department, Clark University)
  
  
• Fifteen years after the Velvet Revolution
  Various speakers, Annual seminar in Krkonose Mountains, Northeastern Bohemia
  
  
• New Perspectives on Free Society
  Various speakers, conference in Southern Bohemia
  
  
• Church-State Relations in the Czech Republic
  An academic workshop held in Prague
  
  
• Faces of Totalitarianism: Yesterday and Today
  A conference held in Cejkovice, Southern Moravia
  

“I am very thankful to EICEE… It was very valuable for me, because during last several years I have seen many deficiencies in my society in transition. I was seeing a degradation in almost every sphere and it was very depressing, and I was getting skeptical and pessimistic about almost everything. … It’s very good for me to see all the young people from all over CEE, and to see that you are not alone. Most of the people I met here are living with ideals, high ideals, something we call high matters or high affairs that the modern society unfortunately neglects as useless.”