On April 30 at 2:30 PM (Room I-414), the Mykolas Romeris University School of Law invites you to a public lecture titled “The state of emergency in German constitutional law and in the European Convention of Human Rights.”

The lecture will be delivered by visiting professor Dr. Stefan Haack from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder). Professor Dr. Haack is the Head of the Institute of Public Law at Viadrina University, with a particular focus on constitutional law.

During the lecture, the national and supranational legal frameworks governing the state of emergency will be analyzed. The concept of a state of emergency is not clearly defined in Germany’s Basic Law, leading to both practical and theoretical challenges in its interpretation. Professor Haack will discuss these challenges and the efforts of German legal scholars to interpret and apply this concept within national law and the context of human rights protection.

This lecture is part of Professor Haack’s teaching visit, funded by the Education Exchanges Support Foundation under the Lithuanian National Scheme for the Financing of Visiting Professors in 2025. The visit is initiated and organized by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Juozas Valčiukas, Director of the Institute of Public Law at the MRU School of Law.