Round table at the ISL on the occasion of 140 years of constitutionalism in Bulgaria

On 8 April 2019, a round table on the topic "140 Years of Constitutionalism in Bulgaria" was held in the conference room of the Institute for the State and the Law. The event was attended by Prof. Irena Ilieva, PhD, Director of the Institute for the State and the Law and lecturer in international law; Prof. Emilia Drumeva, PhD, lecturer in constitutional law, former Constitutional Court judge and Secretary for Legal Affairs to the President of the Republic of Bulgaria; and Prof. Stefka Naumova, PhD, lecturer in sociology of law and former Member of Parliament. The round table is part of a series of planned events organised by the ISL to mark the 150th anniversary of the BAS.

A greeting address to the participants was delivered by Assoc. Prof. Andriyana Andreeva, PhD, Head of the Department of Legal Sciences at the University of Economics – Varna.

The round table was also attended by many other legal scholars, as well as practising lawyers, who filled the conference room of the Institute for the State and the Law to capacity. The discussion emphasised the landmark role of the Tarnovo Constitution in laying the foundations of the rule of law in liberated Bulgarian society. The talks also touched upon the influence of constitutionalism on the building of the legal system of the European Union, the constitutional identity of the Member States, and the validity and legitimacy of law.