QUO VADIS, EU (LAW)? Defending the European Constitutional Project in Turbulent Times

PROGRAM

10:30 — 11:00 am
Registration of participants

11:00 — 11:15 am
Institutional Welcoming
Pietro Sirena School of Law
Graziella Romeo LLM European Business and Social Law

11:15 — 12:15 am
Opening Keynote – Does the Church of European Legal Integration Need a Reformation? Yes!
Joseph H.H. Weiler New York University 
Chair: Marta Cartabia Bocconi University

12:15 am — 2:00 pm
Lunch Break

2:00 — 3:30 pm
PANEL 1 — The Protection of the Common European Values: the EU perspective 
Ana Bobić Hertie School of Government
Matteo Bonelli Maastricht University
Dimitrios Spieker Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law / Humboldt University 
Chair: Eleanor Spaventa Bocconi University

3:30 — 4:00 pm 
Coffee Break

4.00 – 6.00 pm
Closing Keynote – Strategic Litigation and EU Values: A Troubled Relation in a Rush to Save Democracy
Daniel Sarmiento Complutense University Madrid

14 MAY 2026 | 9:00 am - 1:45 pm 

9:00 — 11:30 am
PANEL 2 — Protecting European Democracies: Domestic Perspectives 
Mariano Croce University of Rome La Sapienza
Markus Ogorek Köln University 
Eleonora Bottini Sciences Po Paris
Bianca Selejan-Gutan Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Barbara Grabowska-Moroz Central European University 
Chair: Davide Paris Bocconi University

11:30 — 12:00 am
Coffee Break

12:00 am — 1:30 pm
PANEL 3 — European Defence: Where Are We? 
Catherine Hoeffler University of Geneva
Christopher Thornhill University of Birmingham
Arianna Vedaschi Bocconi University
Alberto Miglio University of Torino
Chair: Rosalba Fama’ and Umberto Lattanzi Bocconi University

1:30 — 1:45 pm
Concluding Remarks