INTEREST GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL LEGAL THEORY
‘Universalism and Particularism in International Law’
Aeyal Gross (Chair)
Geoffrey Gordon, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Transnational legal studies dept. Cosmopolitanism and Regionalism in International Law
Jaye Ellis, Hydro-Québec Sustainable Development Law Scholar, Faculty of Law, McGill University Law’s Deference to Expert Discourses as Grounding for Universal Validity
Fabia Veçoso, University of São Paulo, Brazil, Assessing Regionalism in International Law
John D. Haskell, Durham Law School, ‘Against Culture’: Indeterminacy and Structural Bias in Progressive
INTEREST GROUP ON PEACE AND SECURITY
‘Has International Law Something to Say about Revolution?’
Chairman: Theodore Christakis (University of Grenoble)
Annyssa Bellal (Irish Center for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway): “Armed protest and international law”
Kenneth Chan & Jed Odermatt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), “The ‘strategic’ recognition and de-recognition of old and new governments in the use of force: A legal analysis of issues of legality and inherent risks”
Vaïos Koutroulis (ULB) : “Quand est-ce qu’un conflit armé non international commence ? Enseignements à la lumière des révoltes de 2010-2012 en Tunisie, en Egypte, en Libye et en Syrie”
Shannonbrooke Murphy (Middlesex University): “Codifying the Right to Resist in International Law”
Charlotte Steinorth (CEU), “Resolution 1973 and the Security Council’s Instrumental Turn to Democracy”
Owen Taylor (School of Oriental and African Studies), ‘Between Reform, Revolution and a hard place: The political economy of the New International Economic Order’
Fernando R. Tesón (Florida State University): “Humanitarian Intervention as Assistance to Justified Revolutions”
INTEREST GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW
‘International Economic Law, Sovereign Debt and Bilateralism’
Panel 1: The Regulatory Answers to the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Chair: Luis Hinojosa (University of Granada)
Angelos Dimopoulos (Tilburg University), The EU sovereign debt crisis and the use of “extra‐EU” institutions
Matthias Goldmann and Armin von Bogdandy (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Sovereign Debt Restructurings as Exercises of International Public Authority: Towards a Decentralized Sovereign Insolvency Law
Annamaria Viterbo and Francesco Costamagna (University of Torino), Multi‐regionalism in the Context of the EU Sovereign Debt Crisis: Current Legal Challenges and the Way Forward
Discussant: August Reinisch (University of Vienna)
Panel 2: The reach and impact of bilateralism as a tool for fragmentation or de‐fragmentation in IEL
Chair: Marion Panizzon (University of Bern)
Thomas Cottier (University of Bern) and Hannes Schloemann (WTI Advisors), Re‐Examining Reciprocity: North‐South Agreements and WTO Disciplines on PTAs
Chien‐Huei Wu (IEAS, Academia Sinica, Taipei), The Fragmentation of the Multilateral Trading System: the Case of Trading Rules on Export Restrictions
Lars Schönwald (University of Passau), The Need for a Global Resource Agreement and its Regulatory Framework
Discussant: Edna del Carmen Ramirez Robles (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
INTEREST GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
Joint Workshop of IG on International Environmental Law and IG on International Economic Law
“The United Nations ‘Rio+20’ Conference on Sustainable Development: Appraisal and Prospects of a Paradigmatic Concept”
KEY NOTE SPEECH Julia Frohneberg (University of Hamburg), ‘Taking Stock of the Concept of Sustainable Development in International Law and International Relations’
PRESENTATIONS
1. Matthias Sant’Ana and Claire Debucquois, Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium): ‘Rio+ 20 and the Future of Sustainable Development as a Legal Concept: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead’
Discussant: Werner Scholtz, North-West Univeristy (South Africa)
2. Carina Costa de Oliveira, FVG-Direito Rio (Brazil), ‘The International Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development: Insufficient Focus on National Implementation’
Discussant: Rike Kraemer, University College London (United Kingdom)
3. Takeo Horiguchi, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Public Policy (Japan), ‘The Influence of Sustainable Development on the Proceduralization of International Watercourse Law’
Discussant: Klaus Blank, European Commission (Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development)
INTEREST GROUP ON FEMINISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
“Regionalism and Feminism: How regionalism impacts on women’s lives”
Enzamaria Tramontana, University of Palermo, Judicial Dialogue and Cross-Fertilization of Regional Women’s Rights Standards: The Case of Reproductive Rights
Reut Yael Paz, Alexander von Humboldt Law Faculty, Ostjüdische Regionalism and Feminism à la Rosa Luxemburg
Loveday Hodson, University of Leicester, The ECHR and Women’s Rights Dorothy Estrada-Tanck, European University Institute, Violence against Women, Human Security, and Human Rights of Women and Girls
Marion Lewis, American Graduate School in Paris, Women, War and Just War Theory: Why this Silent Majority Must “Bandwagon” To Influence The “Power Brokers” To Create A Normative Framework For Jus Post Bellum
Eki Y. Omorogbe, University of Leicester, 'Protecting Women in Armed Conflict in Africa'
Solange Mouthaan, University of Warwick, Sexual Violence against Men in Armed Conflict in Africa
CHEAH Wui Ling, National University of Singapore, Exploring Institutionalisation through Regionalisation: The Limits of Legal Mobilisation and the ‘Comfort Women’ Movement’s Experience in Southeast Asia
Troy Lavers, University of Leicester, The evolving story of Violence against Women in Conflict: from Europe to Africa
INTEREST GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
PANEL 1 Protecting the vulnerable: children, refugees and the environment
Chair: Marta Requejo
Margalida Capellà-Roig, Child Sex Tourism, business and human rights
Nicola Jägers & Conny Rijken, Prevention of Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation
Silvia Scarpa, Fighting against the exploitation of children in cacao plantations
Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann, Transnational cluster-litigation for environmental justice
PANEL 2 Emerging corporate responsibility regulation
Chair: Freya Baetens
Olga Martin-Ortega, Regulating conflict minerals
Damian de Felice, Private Banks and the corporate responsibility to protect
Miriam Saage-Maaf, Possibilities to overcome the legal irresponsibility of mother companies
Sorcha MacLeod and Alexandra Bohm, Regulating PMSCS: What can the EU learn from the UK's robust self-regulatory approach?
INTEREST GROUP ON BIOLAW
The European Approach to International Bio Law
Yao-Ming HSU, National Ceng-chi University, Taiwan, “The Legal Status of Women’s Body in China and Taiwan: Examples of Artificial Reproduction and Other Practices”
María Isabel TORRES CAZORLA, University of Malaga, Spain, “Spanish municipal legislation and biomedicine: recent approaches in the field of the right to be/not to be informed”
Roser PUIG MARCÓ, University of Barcelona, Spain, “DNA Samples and Biometric Data across European Union: Legal Challenges of Transnational Exchanges”
Freya BAETENS and Ruben ZANDVLIET, Leiden University, The Netherlands, “Resticting Market Access for Biotech Products through Preferential Trade Agreements: A Critical Assessment of the recent European PTAs”
Enrico BONADIO, City University London, United Kingdom, “Exclusion from Patentability of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in the EU: The Impact of Brüstle”
César VILLEGAS DELGADO, University of Seville, Spain, “Human Embryo Research under the Principle of the Rule of Law. Do We Need to Worry?”
José Manuel SÁNCHEZ PATRÓN, University of Valencia, Spain, “Biotechnological modifications, human health and international responsibility”
Daniel GARCÍA SAN JOSÉ, University of Seville, Spain, “A Critical Approach to the European Regulation of Human Embryo and Biomedical Research”
INTEREST GROUP ON THE EU AS A GLOBAL ACTOR
Inaugural Workshop of the IG “The European Union as a Global Actor”
Welcome lecture on “The constitutionalization of European foreign policy” by Professor Piet Eeckhout, King’s College London
INTEREST GROUP ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
We have our inaugural meeting in Valencia where we have a top level substantive panel on the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982 with two confirmed remarkable panelists: Professor and Judge Rudiger Wolfrum (from ITLOS) and Professor Maria Gavouneli (University of Athens).
