University of Helsinki

Past events in 2013

Autumn 2013

Tue 17.12. Guest speaker, Professor Hans Petter Graver, The Politics of Legal Methodology, at 10-12 in P545.

Mon 16.12. Guest speaker, Professor Jo Shaw, 'What would happen to citizenship if a new state were to be created
within the context of the EU?', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 25.11. Guest speaker, Dr Elaine Fahey, 'EU rule-making in cybercrime & cyber security: unpacking the (cyberspace) terrain of internal and external security risks', at 14-16 in P545.

Fri-Sat 22-23.11. Seminar on 'Territorial laws in a global era' at the University of Helsinki, in Porthania room P545.

Mon 11.11. Welcome to a friendly debate over the role of the Court of Justice of the European Union and its reasoning at 13:15-15:45 in P545. The three prepared talks are:

• Dr. Elina Paunio, 'Discursive legal certainty and the search for agreement in EU law', and
• Professor Gareth Davies, 'The Court of Justice and the division of power between it and national courts', and
• Dr. Suvi Sankari, 'Legal reasoning at the Court: dynamic or minimalistic, or both?'

Mon 4.11. Guest speaker, Professor Inger-Johanne Sand, ' The legitimacy of international law', at 14-16 in P545.

Thu 31.10. Guest speakers Allan Rosas and Niilo Jääskinen, 'Recent issues in the jurisprudence of the CJEU', in P545 at 14-16.

Mon 14.10. Guest speaker Dr Alesksandra Glyszczynska (from Poznan Human Rights Centre), 'Memory Laws or Memory Loss: Europe in Search of its Historical Identity', at 14-16 in P518.

Thu 3.10. The kick-off seminar of our new research project "European Bonds: the Moral Economy of Debt" (2013-2017), which emerged from the Center of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity. Guest speaker Professor Scott Veitch from the University of Hong Kong, ‘The moral economy of debt: some preliminary observations’, at 14-17 in P545.

Mon 30.9. Speaker, doctoral student Samuli Miettinen, 'Public access to documents: Transparency in the EU criminal legislative process?', at 14-16 in P667.

Mon 23.9. Speaker, post doctoral researcher Kaius Tuori, 'Presenting the FoundLaw project', at 14-16 in P545.

Thu-Fri 19-20.9. 5th Annual Conference in Helsinki 2013.

Tue 10.9. 'Neo-Institutionalism and Public Policy', speaker Professor B. Guy Peters, at 14:30-16:45 in seminar room 4, Unioninkatu 37. This is the first seminar of an interdisciplinary seminar series 'The Helsinki Seminar for Governance and Institutions' organised jointly by the project Politics and Numbers: Global Governance and Policy Instruments and the Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law and Polity Research.

Spring 2013

Wed-Thu 19-20.6. 'Ultima Ratio 2.0' in Helsinki, organised by Oñati Institute and CoE Foundations.

Mon-Tue 17-18.6. 'Friend or Foe? The contemporary relevance of Carl Schmitt', a Swedish-Finnish workshop, Keynote: Martin Loughlin (LSE ) Programme.

Thu-Fri 13-14.6. 'Europe at the Edge of Pluralism: Legal Aspects of Diversity in Europe' (Poznan Human Rights Centre, Poland).

Mon 10.6. Professor Joxerramon Bengoetxea,' Legal Culture and European Integration: The Nordic Papers' at 14-16 in P668.

Thu-Fri 6-7.6. Rancière and the possibility of law.

Mon 27.5. Professor Loïc Azoulai (EUI), 'Subjective rights in EU law and the 'European individual'', at 14-16 in P668.

Mon 20.5. Professor Daniel Sarmiento (Complutense University of Madrid), 'In the shadow of the Charter. The Court of Justice, national courts and the emerging new framework of fundamental rights protection in Europe', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 29.4. Postdoctoral researcher Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo, 'Excavating foundations of the European legal subject: a research agenda', and Doctoral student Jens Kremer, 'Policing Cyber-Crime or Militarizing Cyber-Security? - Security mindsets and the regulation of threats from cyberspace', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 8.4. Professor Leonard Besselink (Utrecht University), 'Democracy in the Composite European Constitutional Order: Some Reflections from the Perspective of Comparative Constitutional Law', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 18.3. Postdoctoral researcher Julen Etxabe, ' The Practice of Dialogue: Institutional Entanglements of the European Court of Human Rights', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 4.3. Postdoctoral researcher Emilia Korkea-aho, 'Involvement of third country actors in EU law and policy-making processes: A research agenda', and Doctoral student Katri Havu, 'The Interface of EU Rights and National Remedies and 'No-one's Law', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 25.2. Professor Carlos Closa (CSIC),'Opposing international law to domestic law: Spanish courts and
transitional criminal justice', at 13-15 in P545.

Mon 11.2. Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen (European Court of Justice), 'Does law leave room for democracy in Europe - reflections on Pringle and the Charter', at 14-16 in P545.

Mon 4.2. Judge Allan Rosas (European Court of Justice), 'International law and human rights', at 14-16 in P668.

Fri 1.2. Professor Jo Shaw (Edinburgh Law School), provisional title 'Diagnostics: The state of the art of the European
law research today', at 14-16 in P545.