International Legal Seminar
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Grand Hotel Sofia, 29–30 April 2015, Sofia
Topic of the seminar:
Legal Capacity as a Universal Standard for the Full Value of the Person International Perspectives and the Bulgarian Legal Reform
THE PROGRAMME OF THE SEMINAR CAN BE VIEWED HERE
ORGANISERS
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria
Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law Foundation (BCNL)
Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
OFFICIAL GUESTS
Mr Hristo Ivanov, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria
Mr Konstantin Penchev, Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria
SPEAKERS
Michael Bach, PhD, Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society, Canada
Eilionóir Flynn, PhD, Deputy Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and Lecturer in Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Valentin Aichele, PhD, German Institute for Human Rights, national monitoring body for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Federal Republic of Germany
Maria Mameri – Latzel, PhD, judge at the Köpenick court, Federal Republic of Germany
Adv. Yotam Tolub, Bizchut – the Israel Human Rights Centre for People with Disabilities, Israel
Atanas Slavov, PhD, adviser to the Minister of Justice and member of the working group at the Ministry of Justice for the preparation of the draft act on natural persons and support measures
MODERATORS
Verginia Micheva – Ruseva, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Bulgaria
Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova, Associate Professor of Civil and Family Law at Plovdiv University and the Institute for the State and the Law at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Nadya Shabani, Programme Director at the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Adv. Marieta Dimitrova, legal consultant of the Bulgarian Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Adv. Aneta Genova, Mental Disability Advocacy Centre, Hungary