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CRC 597 / RECON Workshop
The Social Embeddedness of Transnational Markets
WP 9 - Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared
WP 9 events
Bremen, 5-7 February 2009
 Venue: Haus der Wissenschaft, Sandstraße 4/5, 28195 Bremen
Organised by the Centre for European Law and Politics (ZERP), University of Bremen
Workshop summary (D54) (pdf)
This is the third third joint workshop of RECON WP 9 (Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared) and the Collaborative Research Centre Transformations of the State (CRC 597) Project A 1 (Trade Liberalisation and Social Regulation in Transnational Structures).
Read more on the research objectives of WP 9 and on the overall research objectives of RECON.
'Transnational governance' is the term most widely used in the current debates on the institutional frameworks of globalising markets. Our reference to the notion of 'social embeddedness' is to indicate that we seek to understand the tensions generated by the efforts to promote free international trade on the one hand and the countermoves striving for social responsibility on the other. Polanyi, to whom the notion of emebddedness can be ascribed, does not provide us with any comprehensive theory, which would predict the outcome of these conflictual interactions, the disembedding moves and re-embedding countermoves – and he had no theory of globalisation.
Following our previous workshop on 'Transnational Standards of Social Protection' and a seminar in the summer term of 2008 on 'Markets as Social Institutions' we felt we should seek to understand Polanyi's work as a challenge to our efforts to explain the emergence of transnational governance arrangements, or, to rephrase this with a more conceptual and normative twist, to use it in our efforts to understand 'how the globalisation of the market system as a disembedding process is to be reconciled with re-embedding moves aiming at social security and cohesion'.
See RECON Report No 4: Transnational Standards of Social Protection
Downloads:
Programme (pdf) (02.02.2009)
Abstracts (pdf)
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Programme
Thursday, 5 February 2009
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Section I: Theoretical Frameworks | |
14:00-15:00 |
Chair: Christian Joerges
Polanyi’s Theory of Public Policy: Embeddedness, Commodification and the Institutional Dynamism of the Welfare State (Abstract) (Paper)
Alexander Ebner, Jacobs University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bremen | |
15:00-16:00
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Who Compensates the Losers? Embedded Liberalism, Inequality and the Limits of Global Governance (Abstract) (Paper)
Jens Steffek, Collaborative Research Center 597 / Jacobs University, Bremen
Discussant: Florian Rödl, Centre for European Law and Politics, Bremen
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16:00-16:30
16:30-17:30
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Coffee break
Chair: Karl-Heinz Ladeur
European and Global Economic Constitutionalisation (Abstract) (Paper)
Poul Kjaer, Frankfurt Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders'
Discussant: Waltraud Schelkle, London School of Economics, European Institute
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17:30-18:30 |
Re-embedding the Market Through Law? On the Legalisation of the International System (Abstract) (Paper)
Regina Kreide, University of Gießen
Discussant: Jürgen Neyer, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder | |
19:00 |
Dinner at Bremer Ratskeller
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Friday, 6 February 2009
Section II: Case Studies
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Services and Labour
Chair: Sol Picciotto | |
09:00-09:45
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Commodification of Healthcare in Transnational Contexts: The EU and the WTO
Compared (Abstract) (Paper)
Markus Krajewski, University of Potsdam / Collaborative Research Center 597, Bremen | |
09:45-10:30
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Commodification of Universal Telecommunications Service in the Liberalisation Framework of the WTO and the EC (Abstract)
Olga Batura, Centre for European Law and Politics, Bremen
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10:30-11:15 |
International Standards and the Service Economy (Abstract) (Paper)
Jean-Christophe Graz, Institut d’études politiques et internationales, University of Lausanne | |
11:15-11:45
11:45-13:00
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Coffee break
WTO and ILO: Can Social Responsibility be Maintained in International Trade? (Abstract) (Paper)
Josef Falke, Collaborative Research Center 597 / Centre For European Law and Politics, Bremen
Discussant: Claire O’Brien, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen (Abstract) (Paper)
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13:00-14:00 |
Lunch break | |
14:00-15:00
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Environment
Chair: Gralf-Peter Calliess
Enclosed Solutions for Common Problems? Uncertainty, Precaution and Collective Learning in Environmental Law (Abstract) (Paper)
Olaf Dilling, Collaborative Research Center 597, Bremen
Discussant: Henning Deters, Collaborative Research Center 597, Bremen | |
15:00-15:30 |
Exploring the Social Embeddedness of Markets: Insights from the Sociology of Occupations and Professions (Abstract)
Martin Herberg, Collaborative Research Center 597, Bremen | |
15:30-16:00
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Embedding Others: International Investment Law and Market Regulation (Abstract)
Harm Schepel, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent at Brussels | |
16:00-16:30 |
Coffee break
Financial Markets
Karl Marx, "Die Finanzkrise in Europa" (1857):
"Um die Preise zu halten, [ ...] musste der Staat die Preise zahlen, dievor dem Ausbruch der Handelspanik galten, und die Wechsel diskontieren, dienichts anderes mehr repräsentierten als die ausländischen Bankrotte. Mitanderen Worten, das Vermögen der gesamten Gesellschaft, welche die Regierung vertritt, hat die Verluste der privaten Kapitalisten zuvergüten. Diese Art Kommunismus, wo die Gegenseitigkeit völlig einseitigist, erscheint den europäischen Kapitalisten ziemlich anziehend."
Translation of his Editorial in the New York Daily Tribune Nr. 5202, 22 December 1857 | |
16:30-17:30
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Chair: Marc Amstutz
Corporate Governance, Financial Market Regulation and the Next ‘Great Transformation’ of Markets and States in the Transnational Space: Of Investors, Employees, Global Assemblages and Polanyi’s Double Movement (Abstract) (Paper)
Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
Discussant: Ulrich Klüh, The German Council of Economic Experts, Wiesbaden
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17:30-18:30
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Disembedding and Regulation: The Paradox of International Finance (Abstract) (Paper)
Sol Picciotto, Lancaster University Law School
Discussant: Lars Klöhn, Institut für Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Arbeitsrecht, University of Marburg | |
19:00
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The whole conference is invited by Stephan Leibfried – Speaker of the Bremen Research Centre on Transformations of the State and its Spiritus Rector – to his 65th birthday and non-retirement party. More directions will follow.
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Saturday, 7 February 2009
Section III: Constitutionalising Transnational Governance Arrangements
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09:30-10:15 |
Chair: Harm Schepel
The Transnational Dimension of Constitutional Rights (Abstract)
Lars Viellechner, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Discussant: Isabell Hensel, Centre for European Law and Politics, Bremen | |
10:15-11:00 |
The Double Movement in Global Law: The Case of European Corporate Social Responsibility (Abstract) (Paper)
Marc Amstutz, University of Freiburg i.Ue.
Discussant: Gralf-Peter Calliess, Collaborative Research Center 597, Bremen
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11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
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Coffee break
Chair: Jean-Christophe Graz
Law and/or Economics? Transnational Economic Constitutions in the Making (Abstract)
Sabine Frerichs, Centre of Excellence 'Foundations of European Law and Polity', University of Helsinki | |
12:00-12:45
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Conflict of Laws as the Legal Paradigm of the Postnational Constellation (Abstract) (Paper)
Christian Joerges, Collaborative Research Center 597 / Centre For European Law and Politics, Bremen
Discussant: Moritz Renner, Collaborative Research Center 597, Bremen | |
12:45-13:30 |
Global or International Administrative Law: Transnational Administrative Law Beyond the State? (Abstract) (Paper in German, English version to follow)
Karl-Heinz Ladeur, Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Discussant: Bogdan Iancu, Centre for European Law and Politics, Bremen | |
13:30 |
Lunch at Haus der Wissenschaft
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 For further information, please contact Christian Joerges (co-leader WP 9) or Olga Batura (ZERP).
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