Foundations of European Law and Polity
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About the Centre
The foundations of European law, including national legal systems, are undergoing profound changes. But what is the direction of these changes?
The Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research takes up the challenge Europeanization has posed for legal theory. Based at the University of Helsinki, and co-funded by the Academy of Finland, the CoE brings together researchers from different substantive areas of law, political science and history. Research in the CoE is based on four independent and overlapping research teams.
3rd Annual Conference 15-16 September 2011
on Justice
The Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity Research, financed by the Academy of Finland and hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Helsinki, organized in August 2010 a conference on the topic of Rethinking Legal Thinking. The purpose was to examine the impact of the law's transnationalisation on our inherited way of thinking and talking about the law. One of the central concepts whose rethinking was deemed necessary was that of justice. The CoE's Annual Conference 2011 will continue the discussion on legal transnationalisation by way of focusing on the concept of justice. The main emphasis will be on Europeanisation without, however, ignoring the global aspect.
The Conference will be divided into five plenary sessions. The first session is dedicated to the historical and philosophical background; the second will discuss justice in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice; the third will focus on the issue of justice in the field of private law and regulation of the European market-place; and the fourth will concentrate on issues related to Social Europe. The main speakers of each of these sessions will participate in the final, concluding session. In addition to the plenary sessions, the Centre has invited doctoral students and post-doc researchers to submit proposals for papers which will be presented and discussed in working groups.
Registration by 2 September to ilona.nieminen[at]helsinki.fi
PROGRAMME
Venue: Unioninkatu 33
Thursday 15 September 2011
8.45-9.15 Coffee and registration
9.15-9.30 Welcome address Kaarlo Tuori
9.30 Session I Philosophical and Historical Background
Speakers
Richard Bellamy (UCL), “Political Constitutionalism and International Human Rights Conventions: The Hirst Case”
Christian Joerges (Bremen), “Justum Facere in the Integration Process”
Thomas Duve (Max-Planck-Institute), “Early Globalisations of Justice? - Some historical observations on mechanisms of creating normative coherence in the Age of Discovery”
Commentators
Kaarlo Tuori (CoE)
Heikki Pihlajamäki (CoE)
12.00 Lunch
12.45 Session II Justice in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Speakers
Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (Oxford), "Injustice and the EU's Area of Freedom, Security and Justice"
Chrisje Brants (Utrecht), “How feasible is harmonised justice?”
Commentators
Kimmo Nuotio (CoE)
Massimo Fichera (CoE)
14.45 Coffee
15.00 Working groups (4 parallel)
(-19)
19.30 Dinner at Ravintola Olo
Friday 16 September 2011
9.00 Session III Justice and the Market
Speakers
Hans-W Micklitz, Keiva Carr (EUI), "Transformation of Justice through European Integration"
Olha Cherednychenko (Amsterdam), “Justice and the Europeanisation of Private Law in Central and Eastern Europe”
Commentators
Juha Häyhä (The Supreme Court of Finland)
Alex Mills (University College London)
11.00 Coffee
11.15 Session IV Social Justice and Solidarity
Speakers
Niklas Bruun (CoE), "The European Social Model and the Economic Crisis"
Claudia Wiesner (Marburg), "Citizenship development in the EU and via the EU, and as its impact on social justice"
Commentators
Maija Sakslin (CoE)
Suvi Sankari (CoE)
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Closing panel
-15.30
Informal activities
Registration by 2 September to ilona.nieminen[at]helsinki.fi