CRC 597 / RECON Workshop

The Conflicts-Law Approach on Trial

WP 9 - Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared

Loccum, 17-19 October 2011

Organised by the Centre for European Law and Politics (ZERP), University of Bremen

This seminar is both a concluding and an opening event. It is the concluding workshop of the project 'Transnational governance and constitutionalism', a contribution to RECON, which started in January 2007 and will end in December 2011 (RECON WP 9 - Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared). It is at the same time opening the third phase of the project on 'Trade Liberalisation and Social Regulation' which Josef Falke and Christian Joerges are directing for four more years in the context of the Collaborative Research Centre 'Transformations of the State' (CRC 597) in Bremen.

The workshop will explore the potential of the approach to conceptualise in legal terms the transformation of the state and the postnational constellations – and to orient the normative evaluation of the conflict constellations which these processes have generated and keep generating.

RECON Report 15 After Globalisation – New Patterns of Conflict and their Sociological and Legal Re-constructions on the preceding 2010 workshop in Loccum will be available to the participants.

Read more on the research objectives of WP 9 and on the overall research objectives of RECON.

Programme Download pdf Monday, 17 October 2011
15:30-17:00	Section I: Theoretical and Sociological Reconstructions of Postnational Conflict Patterns Chair: Christian Joerges, University of Bremen Towards a General Socio-Legal Theory of Constituionalism Beyond the State Poul F. Kjaer, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Repressed Democracy: Legitimacy Problems in World-Society Regina Kreide, Justus Liebig University, Giessen Discussant: Karl-Heinz Ladeur, University of Bremen
17:00-18:30	Chair: Florian Rödl, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Conflicting Laws? On the Legal Dimension of the Globalized Market Soicety Sabine Frerichs, University of Helsinki Michel Foucault's critique of ordoliberal and Hayekian law and economics Michelle Everson, Birkbeck, University of London Discussant: Regina Kreide, Justus Liebig University, Giessen
18:30	Supper
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
09:15-11:00	Section II: Re-conceptualising the Law of Postnational Conflict Constellations: Three Holistic Conceptualisations Panel on Conflicts Law and Democracy Chair: Tobias Prinkel, University of Bremen On the Problems of Democratic and Social Union Florian Rödl, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Conflicting Constitutional Laws and Constitutional Pluralism in an Asymmetric World Rainer Nickel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, and Alicia Cebada Romero, Carlos III University, Madrid/London School of Economics Discussant: Daniel Augenstein, University of Tilburg
11:00-11:15	Coffee break
11:15-12:30	*Section III: The Lecitimacy Problématique* of Global Administrative Law** Chair: Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto The Emergence of Global Administrative Law and Transnational Regulation: On the Necessity to Broaden the 'Conflicts of Law' Approach Karl-Heinz Ladeur, University of Bremen Judging Constitutional (Un)Ambition in Academic Minds: A Critical Juxtaposition of the Constitutional Deficit of Global Administrative Law and the Democratic Aspiration of the Conflicts-Law Approach Ming-Sing Kuo, University of Warwick School of Law Discussant: Harm Schepel, Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent
12:30-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:30	Section IV: Conflict-resolution and Mediation: Applications Chair: Joost Pauwelyn, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva The Precautionary Principle as a Conflicts-of-Laws Normprinciple? Alexia Herwig, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, Antwerp General Clauses and Private Regulation: Regime Collisions in Tuna-Dolphin III Carola Glinski, University of Bremen Dealing With True and False Conflicts in the Transnational Law Market Robert Wai, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
15:30-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-16:30	Discussion Discussant: Hui-Wen Chen, Harvard Law School
16:30-18:30	Section V: Complementary and Competing Approaches Panel on Alternative Queries with Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism Chair: Rainer Nickel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main Public International Law and the Conflicts-Law Approach Joost Pauwelyn, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Discussant: Ulf Uetzmann, University of Bremen Post-Critical Private International Law: From Politics to Technique Ralf Michaels, Duke University, Durham Discussant: Harm Schepel, University of Kent, Brussels
18:30	Supper
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
09:15-10:15	Section VI: Interinstitutional and Administrative Conflict Resolution in the EU Chair: Alexia Herwig, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, Antwerp Comitology's Lightbulb-Moment: The Role of Committee-Governance in Facilitating (Over)Ambitious Environmental Standard-Setting Henning Deters, University of Bremen Comitology after the Lisbon Treaty and the Turn to Agencification Josef Falke and Olga Batura, University of Bremen Discussant: Anna Baumann, University of Bremen
10:15-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-11:30	Section VII: Genetically Modified Organisms as Regulatory Challenge Chair: Josef Falke, University of Bremen Constitutionalising Transnational Governance of GMOs through Conflicts Law: In the Search for Legitimate Meta-Norms Maria Weimer, University of Maastricht Escape from the Rule of Sound Science: The Impacts of Socio-Economic and Trans-Scientific Concerns in the Regulation of GMOs Karolina Zurek, Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies, Stockholm Discussant: Alexia Herwig, Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, Antwerp
11:30-12:15	Epilogue, Outlook and Organisational Issues Contested Legitimacy in Conflicts-Law Perspectives Christian Joerges, University of Bremen
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Departure for Wunstorf

For further information, please contact Olga Batura: batura(at)zerp.uni-bremen.de.