Workshop

Re-Framing Transnational Governance

WP 9 - Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared 

WP 9 events

Florence, 9 March 2007

Villa La Fonte, Sala A, San Domenico di Fiesole

The first WP 9 workshop was organised by the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence. It was held in conjunction with a workshop of the University of Bremen coordinated project Transformation of the State which took place on 8 March 2007.

The workshop was a preliminary exercise aimed at framing the future work of WP 9. The first of three sessions dealt with meta-discourses on transnational law and was aimed at mapping the current theoretical debate on transnational law. The second session dealt with transnational product and process regulation and provided an opportunity for exploring developments within specific areas of transnational market regulation, also with a focus on the World Trade Organization (WTO). The third session linked the work of WP 9 to WP 2 – Constitutional Politics, and focused on comparative aspects of transnational democracy. The workshop ended with a panel discussion where the plans for the future work of WP 9 were concretised.

A follow-up workshop will be arranged late 2007 in which subjects (e.g. labor standards and human rights) which had to be left out for different reasons would be taken up, while others would be developed further in co-operation with WP 2. A more comprehensive workshop of both sub-projects of WP 9 will take place in March 2008. All WP 9 events.

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

Part I. Meta-discourses on Transnational Law
09:00-09:10	Welcome and coffee Christian Joerges and Neil Walker, European University Institute
	Chair: Greg Schaffer, Loyola University Chicago
09:10-09:30	Globalization and Transnational Constitutionalism, Neil Walker, European University Institute
09:30-09:50	The Deliberative Turn in Integration Theory, Jürgen Neyer, Europa-Unviersität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
09:50-10:10	Conflict of Laws as Constitutional Form II: The Example of International Trade - An Outline, Christian Joerges, European University Institute
10:10-10:50 10:50-11:00	Discussion Coffee
Part II. Transnational Product and Process Regulation
	Chair: Karl-Heinz Ladeur, University of Hamburg
11:00-11:20	GATT's Environmental Stranglehold, Fiona Macmillan, Birkbeck University of London
11:20-11:40	Authorisation of Genetically Modified Food in the EU: The Value of the Governance Concept for Legal Analysis, Maria Weimer, European University Institute
11:40-12:00	Rationality Within Reach? On the Legitimacy of European Chemicals Regulation, Poul F. Kjaer, European University Institute
12:00-12:20	Comment, Gregory Shaffer, Loyola University Chicago
12:20-13:00 13:00-14:30	Discussion Lunch (Villa la Fonte)
Part III. Global Transnationalisation and Democratisation Compared
	Chair: Christian Joerges, European University Institute
14:30-15:20	Post-national Convergence? John Erik Fossum, ARENA, University of Oslo
15:20-15:30	Coffee
Part IV. Concluding Panel and Discussion
	Chair and introduction, Karl-Heinz Ladeur, University of Hamburg
15:30-17:00	Panellists: Christian Joerges, European University Institute Fiona Macmillan, Birkbeck University of London Gregory Shaffer, Loyola University Chicago Neil Walker, European University Institute
19:30	Dinner (La Lance, Fiesole)
WP 9 Events	For any queries, please contact Christian Joerges, co-leader WP 9.