At the University of Bremen YUFE partner, the University of Cyprus, they held meetings on future cooperation with Prof. Dr. Nikitas Hatzimihail, Professor of Private Law, Comparative Law and Legal History and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences at the University of Cyprus. The visit built on longstanding academic links between Bremen and Cyprus and explored opportunities for joint teaching, research, and student mobility within the YUFE alliance. In particular, the discussions focused on strengthening collaboration in private law, comparative law, and transnational legal studies, drawing on the shared expertise of the partner institutions.

As part of the same trip, Prof. Dr. Calliess contributed to the 5. Annual Symposium of the Procedural Law Unit at the University of Nicosia on “Judicial Independence and Liberal Democracy Under Threat: The Challenge of Implementing the  ?Judicial Independence and Liberal Democracy Under Threat: The Challenge of Implementing the ELI Mt Scopus Standards on Judicial Independence". The symposium, organised by Dr. Nicolas Kyriakides in cooperation with the International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace brought together experts from across Europe and beyond to discuss structural safeguards for judicial independence and their role in upholding the rule of law. In his intervention, Prof. Dr. Calliess focused on the constitutional trias of the rule of law, comprising the right to effective judicial protection (Art. 19 IV GG), the right to the lawful judge (Art. 101 GG), and the guarantee of judicial independence (Art. 97 GG), highlighting their significance beyond the German context and challenging the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union as the ultimate arbiter on judicial independence.