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ESIL Inaugural Conference:
Program

INAUGURAL CONFERENCE
of the
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
FLORENCE, 13 – 15 MAY 2004

INTERNATIONAL LAW IN EUROPE:
BETWEEN TRADITION AND RENEWAL
THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2004

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2004

16:00 – 17:00 Opening Session
Judge Bruno Simma, President ESIL
Prof. Philip Alston, Vice-President ESIL
Speaker TBA

17:00 – 18:00 Keynote event: ‘International Law in Europe – New Horizons'
Prof. Christian Tomuschat (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Prof. Joseph Weiler (NYU Law School & College of Europe, Bruges)
Chair: Prof. Hanspeter Neuhold (University of Vienna)

18:00 – 19:00 Keynote event: ‘International Law in the Shadow of Empire’
Prof. Alain Pellet (Université Paris X – Nanterre)
Prof. Michael Reisman (Yale Law School)
Chair: Prof. Michael Bothe (University of Frankfurt)
19:00 – 20:00 Welcome cocktail reception

FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2004

9:00 – 10:30: Fora [parallel sessions]
Forum 1: Europe and International Law’s Colonial Past
Chair: Prof. Nathaniel Berman (Brooklyn Law School)
Panel: Prof. Tony Anghie (University of Utah Law School)
Prof. Emmanuelle Jouannet (Université Paris I)
Prof. Etienne Le Roy (Université Paris I)
Forum 2: The EU as an International Actor: Legal Perspectives
Chair: Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias (former President of the European Court of Justice)
Panel: Prof. Marise Cremona (University of London)
Prof. Piet Eeckhout (Kings College, London)
Prof. Pieter Jan Kuijper (European Commission)
Prof. Jorg Monar (University of Sussex)
Forum 3: Minorities
Chair: Judge Allan Rosas (European Court of Justice)
Panel: Prof. Francoise Hampson (University of Essex)
Prof. Krzysztof Drzewicki (Office of the OSCE High
Commissioner on National Minorities)
Prof. Gaetano Pentassuglia (University of Munich)
Prof. Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos (University of Athens)

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 – 13:30 Agorae [parallel sessions]
Agora 1: International Legal Theory
Chair: Florian Hoffman
Presenters: Jason Beckett, Nicolas Burniat, Fleur Johns, Carl Landauer, Philip Mueller, Akbar Rasulov, Robert Wai, Thanos Zartaloudis
Agora 2: International Environmental Law
Chair: Jutta Brunnee
Presenters: Nicole Bjerler, Robin Churchill, Maria Gavouneli, Karen Scott,
Francesco Sindico, Attila Tanzi, Christina Voigt, Marina Yanush
Agora 3: International Criminal Law
Chair: Frederic Megret
Presenters: Payam Akhavan, William Burke-White, Rosemary Byrne, Karen Engle, Lorenzo Gardoni, Tijana Shurlan, Pavel Sturma
Agora 4: The Law of International Organisations
Chair: Mary Footer
Presenters: Chiara Giorgetti, Benjamin Hartmann, Klara Kanska, Eleni Katseli, Daniel Khan, Carmela Perez-Bernandez, Christian Pippan
Agora 5a: Terrorism and International Law
Chair: Georg Nolte
Presenters: John Dugard, Jarna Petman, Constantin Antonopoulos, Ben Saul, Mirco Sossai
Agora 5b: International Law and New Technologies
Chair: Inger-Johanne Sand
Presenters:Lilian Hanania Richieri, Heather Harrison Dinniss, Catrin Pekari, Inger-Johanne Sand

13:30 – 15:00 Lunch Break

15:00 – 17:00 Fora [parallel sessions]
Forum 4: The Legacy of Socialism and International Law
Chair: Prof. Boldizsár Nagy (Central European University)
Panel: Prof. Iulia Motoc (University of Bucharest)
Dr. Lauri Mälksoo (Tartu University)
Prof. Jan Helgesen (University of Oslo)
Prof. Tony Carty (University of Westminster)
Forum 5: Terrorism and Human Rights
Chair: Judge Rosalyn Higgins (International Court of Justice)
Panel: Prof. Christine Chinkin (London School of Economics)
Prof. Conor Gearty (London School of Economics)
Prof. August Reinisch (University of Vienna)
Prof. Paola Gaeta (University of Florence)
Prof. Pierre Klein (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Forum 6: International Economic Law
Chair: Prof. Georges Abi-Saab (Chairman, WTO Appellate Body)
Panel: Prof. Genevieve Burdeau (Université Paris I)
Prof. Thomas Cottier (University of Berne)
Prof. Javier Diez-Hochleitner (University of Madrid)
Dr. Dan Sarooshi (University of Oxford)

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee and Tea Break

17:30 – 19:00: Keynote event: ‘International Law in Europe – Between Tradition and Renewal’
Prof. Monique Chemillier-Gendreau (Université Paris – VII)
Prof. Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki University)

20:00 Conference Dinner
Speaker: Judge Luzius Wildhaber, President, European Court of Human Rights

SATURDAY, 15 MAY 2004

9:00 – 10:30: Meeting of the Assembly, Election of Officials etc [plenary]

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee and Tea Break

11:00 – 13:00: Agorae [parallel sessions]
Agora 6: International Legal Doctrine
Chair: TBA
Presenters: Pierre de Fornel, Martin Kavena, Rafal Manko, Enrico Milano, Maria Fernanda Perez Solla, Dirk Pulkowski, Ales Weingerl
Agora 7: Refugee, Migration and Asylum Law
Chair: Bruno Simma
Presenters: Majtenyi Balazs, Ivan Boev, Jeremie Gilbert, Filip Jasinski, Catherine Kenny, Anne Orford, Nils Rosemann
Agora 8: International Dispute Settlement
Chair: Thomas Skouteris
Presenters: Martin Bjorklund, Maurice Mendelson, Iain Scobbie, Ole Spiermann, N’gunu Tiny, Vincent Tomkiewicz, Andreas Ziegler, Ineta Ziemele
Agora 9: International Security Law
Chair: Nikolaos Tsagourias
Presenters: Milagros Alvarez, Aris Constantides, Katharina Gamharter,Vladimir Kazimirov, Nathalia Ochoa Ruiz, Esther Salamanca, Carsten Stahn, Stefan Talmon
Agora 10: International Humanitarian Law
Chair: Daniel Thuerer
Presenters: Karima Bennoune, Shane Darcy, Aeyal Gross, David Kennedy, Vittorio Mainetti, Gjylbehare Murati, Georg Nolte, Ben-Naftali Orna, Ruth Abril Stoffels

13:00 – 14:30: Lunch Break

14:30 – 16:00: Fora [parallel sessions]
Forum 7: Use of Force
Chair: Judge Bruno Simma (International Court of Justice)
Panel: Prof. Oriol Casanovas i La Rosa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona)
Prof. Barbara Delcourt (Institut d’Etudes Européennes)
Dr. Christine Gray (Cambridge University)
Dr. Nico Krisch (New York University)
Forum 8: The Intersection of Trade Law, Human Rights, and Environment
Chair: Prof. Francesco Francioni (European University Institute)
Panel: Dr. Gabrielle Marceau (World Trade Organization)
Dr. Sandrine Maljean-Dubois (Université d'Aix-Marseille III)
Prof. Joost Pauwelyn (Duke University Law School)
Dr. Jochem Wiers (Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Forum 9: Customary Law: Are Rumours of its Death Exaggerated?
Chair: Prof. Vera Gowlland-Debbas (Institut Universitaire de
Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva)
Panel: Prof. Giorgio Gaja (University of Florence)
Prof. Pierre-Marie Dupuy (European University Institute)
Prof. Lauri Hannikainen (Turku University)
Dr. Erika de Wet (University of Amsterdam)
Prof. Olivier Corten (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

16:00 – 16:30: Coffee and Tea Break

16:30 – 18:00: Closing Plenary: Discussion of an important and timely topic to be decided
Chair: Prof. Vaughan Lowe (Oxford University)
Panel: Prof. Boldizsar Nagy (Central European University)
Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris)
Prof. Olivier De Schutter (Université catholique de
Louvain)
Dr. Outi Korhonen (Boston University International Graduate Program (Brussels))


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