Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm Venue: Clark-Kennedy Lecture Theatre, The Queen Mary Innovation Centre, Walden Street, Whitechapel, London E1 2AX
Event Description:
After an introductory roundtable discussion held in October 2014 on the general aspects of the relationship between EU law and PIL to set the scene, the project 'Beyond Pluralism? Co-Implication, Embeddedness and Interdependency between Public International Law and EU Law' opened in medias res, analysing specific legal areas from the viewpoint of both the EU and PIL in a series of thematic dialogues (on monetary policy, energy & environmental law, human rights, crime, justice & terrorism, and common foreign & security policy), taking place from October 2014 to March 2015. An inductive methodology has been followed, based on direct observation of the respective thematic field, intended to allow contributors to draw conclusions on the actual processes of reception, compliance and/or contestation between the EU and international legal orders on that basis. This concluding two-day workshop will serve to put findings into perspective, reflect upon them and consider how best to articulate the link between the two regimes, possibly re-defining their relationship and offering a comprehensive account of their interaction, overcoming the limitations of monist, dualist and pluralist approaches.
Programme
DAY 1
10:00 - Registration & morning coffee
10:45 - Welcome by convenors Dr Paul Gragl and Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax
11:00 - 12:30
(1)Governance: Allocating Powers and Responsibilities in the International Sphere
Chair/discussant: Professor Takis Tridimas (King's College London)
Speakers:
Professor Niels M Blokker (Leiden) International Legal Personality of the EUDr Angelos Dimopoulos (Queen Mary) Powers and Competences of the EUProfessor Esa Paasivirta (European Commission / College d'Europe)
Lunch 12:30 - 13:30
13:30 - 15:00(2) Sources Customary International Law, Treaties, and Law of the EU
Chair/discussant: Professor Roger O'Keefe (UCL)
Professor Ramses A Wessel (Twente) Legal Sources and Why Public International Law does not Borrow from EU LawDr Theodore Konstandinides (Surrey) Customary Law as a Source of EU Law and Vice Versa: A Two-Way Fertilisation RouteDr Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Oxford) UN Law and the EU Legal Order
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00(3) Secondary rules - Norms of interpretation
Chair/discussant: Professor Jean d'Aspremont (Manchester / Amsterdam)
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary) The Use of Article 31 VCLT by the CJEU and its Conformity with General Rules of InterpretationDr Gunnar Beck (SOAS) The CJEU's Cumulative Approach to Interpretation.Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary) Towards a Meta-Axiology? Human Rights as Regime Bridge.
17:00 - 17:15 Preliminary conclusions by convenors
17:30 Drinks for all attendees
19:00 Dinner for speakers
DAY 2
09:00 - 10:30(4) Doctrines and Devices Articulating the Dialogue
Chair/discussant: Dr Mario Mendez (Queen Mary)
Professor Katja Ziegler (Leicester) Systemic Integration: Risks and OpportunitiesDr Saskia Hufnagel (Queen Mary) Practice as Trust-building Tool: The case of Police CooperationDr Tobias Lock (Edinburgh) Judicial Dialogue in Human Rights: Implications beyond Theory
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30(5) Principles Questions of Autonomy, Authority, and Hierarchy
Chair/discussant: Dr Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary)
Speakers: Professor Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Oxford) Towards Universal ConstitutionalismDr Paul Gragl (Queen Mary) Hierarchies between (International) Legal OrdersProfessor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (Oxford) Networks as Alternative System Maker
12:30- Closing remarks and publication plans by convenors