CRC 597 / RECON Workshop

After Globalization – New Patterns of Conflict

WP 9 - Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared

Loccum, 5-7 September 2010

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

This is the fourth 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.

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Programme Sunday, 5 September 2010
Panel I: The conflicts law approach
15:30	The idea of a three-dimensional conflicts law Christian Joerges, University of Bremen
	The notion of diagonal conflicts as a key concept of European conflicts law Rike Krämer, University of Bremen Discussant: Ralph Michaels, Princeton University
Panel II: Social Theory
	Democratic juridification without state building: Conflicts law as cosmopolitan ‘lawful condition’ (Rechtszustand) Florian Rödl, Goethe University Frankfurt Discussants: Mark Amstutz, University of Fribourg, and Claire O'Brien, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen
Monday, 6 September 2010 Panel III: Is a sociological backing of conflicts approach conceivable? Theorizing social embeddedness
09:00	Presentation Sabine Frerichs, University of Helsinki Discussant: Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Aarhus University
Panel IV: Transnational governance through expertise: Foucault
	The power/knowledge-nexus revisited: Interlegality and conflicts of law from a Foucauldian perspective Martin Herberg, University of Bremen Comment: Foucault Kolja Möller, University of Bremen Tales of law and science: a comment Michelle Everson, Birkbeck, University of London
Panel V: The legitimacy problematic of transnational administrative governance
	Administrative governance and constitutionalism in post-national constellations Maria Weimer, European University Institute, Florence How can the law cope with the socio-economic implications of regulatory politics Karolina Zurek, European University Institute, Florence Playing with competing levels of governance Rike Krämer, University of Bremen Discussant: Lars Viellechner, University of Bremen
Panel VI: Transnational constitutionalism
	Constitutionalism beyond the state Poul Kjaer, Goethe University Frankfurt
	Conflicting constitutional laws and constitutional pluralism Alicia Cebada Romero, Carlos III University, Madrid, and Rainer Nickel, Goethe University Frankfurt Discussants: Markus Krajewski, University of Bremen, and Ming-Sing Kuo, Yale University
Tuesday, 7 September 2010 Panel VII: Social rights and private governance
09:00	Presentation Isabell Hensel, Goethe University Frankfurt Discussant: Josef Falke, University of Bremen
Panel VIII: Poverty
	Poverty as a challenge to the debate on the constitutionalization of international law: Examining Shirin Ebadi’s proposal on an international covenant to combat poverty Tommi Ralli, University of Bremen Discussant: Regina Kreide, Justus Liebig University Giessen
Panel IX: Concluding observations
	Adam Gearey, Birkbeck, University of London Inger Johanne Sand, University of Oslo Domenico Siciliano, European University Institute, Florence

For further information, please contact Tommi Ralli.

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