University of Helsinki

Events in 2011

PhD defences

Several members of the centre defended their PhD theses successfully in 2011.

 

2.12. LL.M. Emilia Korkea-aho, New Governance and the EU Courts: The Experimentalist Architecture of Judicial Decision-Making. Opponent Professor William H. Simon (Columbia University), Custos Professor Kimmo Nuotio.

28.10. LL.Lic.Samuli Hurri, Birth of the European individual. Outline of a theory of legal practice. Opponent Professor Emilios Christodoulidis (University of Glasgow), Custos Academy Professor Kaarlo Tuori.

27.10. LL.Lic. Ida Staffans, Evidence in European Asylum Procedures. Opponent Professor Gregor Noll (Lund University), Custos Professor Olli Mäenpää.

10.6. LL.M. Suvi Sankari, Legal Reasoning in Context. Opponent Professor Joxerramon Bengoetxea (University of the Basque Country), Custos Professor Kaarlo Tuori.

13.5. LL.M., M.Soc.Sci Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo, Despairing Justice and the Ethics of Legal Interpretation. Opponent Professor Desmond Manderson (McGill University), Custos Academy Professor Kaarlo Tuori.

4.2. LL.M., M.Phil.Elina Paunio, Beyond Words - The European Court of Justice and Legal Certainty in Multilingual EU Law. Opponent Professor Joxerramon Bengoetxea (University of the Basque Country), Custos Professor Thomas Wilhelmsson.

Autumn 2011

12.12.  Guest speaker Assoc. Prof. Xavier Groussot (University of Lund), “The Scope of Application of Fundamental Rights on Member States' Action: In Search of Certainty in EU Adjudication” Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545
Groussot's working paper in the SSRN.

1.12. Guest speaker Professor William H. Simon (Columbia Law School), “Courts and Governance: An American Perspective”
Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545

Simon will explore the rise of modern governing techniques in the administrative state. The new administrative state gives rise to legal conceptions and normative categories which entail entirely new problems for courts. These issues shall be addressed from an American standpoint, drawing upon the account of democratic experimentalism.

21.11. Guest speaker Assoc. Prof. Zdeněk Kühn (Charles University Law School) , "The impact of EU law on Central European legal culture"
Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545

The lecture will focus on some specific features that might describe common elements of "post-Communist legal cultures", characterized by the excessive formalism and authoritarian application of many old-fashioned Continental legal myths. The talk will laso address the empowerment of the judiciary via the European Enlargement, which has sparked discussion about proper judicial self-restraint and the limits of the judicial function. Whereas courts can no longer be considered mechanical enforcers of rules, the increasing judicialization of politics demands that legal theory develop new schemes fully to account for such judicial activity.

17.10. Speaker LL.D. Elina Paunio, "Beyond Words: the European Court of Justice and Legal Certainty in Multilingual EU Law"
Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545

Workshop: Constitution of (In)security? Rethinking Transnational Security in Europe 31 October 2011

Security has been on the high agendas of European Law and Polity, long before 9/11 and following terror attacks and can be understood in many different ways: It can be perceived in terms of military and defense, in terms of energy and resource security, in terms of national security, in terms of individual security and even as a human and fundamental right.

The workshop looked at different aspects of security in Europe and tried to analyze the term and its effects on the law, states and the individual. The first focal point of the workshop concentrated on different conceptions of security in Europe and how a European Security Constitution can be identified. The Second focal point looked at the individual dimensions of security with a focus on European Criminal Law. What is the state of security in Europe? What are the different conceptions of security? How can security be achieved and guaranteed in a globalised world and within a community of states on a transnational level?

SSRN: Kaarlo Tuori, European Security Constitution?

SSRN: Massimo Fichera, Criminal Law Beyond the State: The European Model

10.10. Guest speaker Professor Joakim Nergelius (Örebro universitet), "EU citizenship - A path towards deepened integration or just an illusion" Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

22.9. Guest speaker Professor Jeremy Webber (University of Victoria)
Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545

A Nationalism that is neither Chauvinistic nor Closed

Is there a form of nationalism that does not fall into the pathologies often associated with nationalism? Drawing on the analogy between language, the music of Sibelius, and a "federal" understanding of culture, Professor Webber suggests a positive answer to this vital contemporary question.

19.9.
Lautsi v. Italy Whose Law? Which Religion?
at 10:00-15:30 in P545.

15.-16.9.
Annual Conference of the CoE on Justice
15 - 16 September 2011 in Helsinki.

 

Spring 2011

The Edinburgh, Tilburg, Helsinki and Maastricht Young Researchers' Network (ETHYRN) Workshop 'Transnational Law in Flux' in Helsinki 9-10 June.

Seminar on Article 345 TFEU What Role for Property in European Integration? An Exchange of Ideas between Maastricht and Helsinki -seminar.

Transnational Law - Rethinking Law and Legal Thinking workshop organised in cooperation with the European University Institute in Florence10-11 March.

Criminalization Project Meeting in Helsinki 19-21 January 2011. Registration by 5 January, jouni.westling[at]helsinki.fi.

Book launch Kaarlo Tuori and Suvi Sankari (eds), The Many Constitutions of Europe (Ashgate, 2010), on Monday 17 January 2011 (Tieteiden talo s 104) at 5-7 pm. Registration by 10 January, ilona.nieminen[at]helsinki.fi.

Afternoon Seminars Spring 2011

16.5. Speaker Anna Hyvärinen, Law-making in the EU Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

2.5. Guest Speaker Robert Schütze, From Rome to Lisbon: ‘Executive Federalism’ in the (New) European Union Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

18.4. Speakers Fernando Losada & Toomas Kotkas, Solidarity
Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

11.4. Guest Speaker Teemu Ruskola, Orientalism Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

5.4. Christian Joerges & Tommi Ralli, What Role for Private Law in European Constitutionalism? An Exchange of Ideas Between Bremen and Helsinki Time 10:15-12:00. Place P545

Christian Joerges and Tommi Ralli participated in a meeting with members of the CoE where the constitutional function of private law, particularly in the European Union context, was discussed. The debates raised some interesting questions which will lead to future research by the members of the Centre.

4.4. Christian Joerges, Unity in Diversity as Europe’s Vocation and Conflicts Law as Europe’s Constitutional Form Time: 14:15 - 17:00. Place: P545

Christian Joerges gave a presentation on his conception of Europe as an example of conflict laws. The topic was further discussed in relation to Kaarlo Tuori's approach on the Many
Constitutions of Europe and Sakari Hänninen's reflections on European governance.

21.3. Speaker Oskari Juurikkala, The Constitutional Implications of Member State Bailouts Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

7.3. Guest Speaker Mar Jimeno-Bulnes, Procedural Rights and Fragmentation Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

14.2. Guest Speaker Daniel Thym, Free Movement of Union Citizenships as a Model? European Migration Policy between Cosmopolitcan Rights and the Reinvention of Borders
Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

7.2. Guest Speakers Miia Halme and Paavo Kotiaho Time: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.

24.1. Speaker Tuomas Ojanen, The Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human
RightsTime: 14:15 - 16:00. Place: P545.