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CLSGC’s 2014-15 Seminar Series on the theme of 'Beyond Pluralism? Co-Implication, Embeddedness and Interdependency between Public International Law and EU Law', co-convened by two members of the Centre, Dr Paul Gragl and Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax, concludes with this final workshop on Constructive Links or Dangerous Liaisons? The Case of Public International Law and European Union Law.

Theme

After an introductory roundtable discussion held in October 2014 on the general aspects of the relationship between EU law and PIL to set the scene, the project 'Beyond Pluralism? Co-Implication, Embeddedness and Interdependency between Public International Law and EU Law' opened in medias res, analysing specific legal areas from the viewpoint of both the EU and PIL in a series of ‘thematic dialogues’ (on monetary policy, energy and environmental law, human rights, crime, justice and terrorism, and common foreign and security policy), taking place from October 2014 to March 2015. An inductive methodology has been followed, based on direct observation of the respective thematic field, intended to allow contributors to draw conclusions on the actual processes of reception, compliance and/or contestation between the EU and international legal orders on that basis. This concluding two-day workshop will serve to put findings into perspective, reflect upon them and consider how best to articulate the link between the two regimes, possibly re-defining their relationship and offering a comprehensive account of their interaction, overcoming the limitations of monist, dualist and pluralist approaches.

Programme

DAY 1

10:00 Registration & morning coffee

10:45 Welcome by convenors Dr Paul Gragl and Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax

11:00 – 12:30

(1) Governance: Allocating Powers and Responsibilities in the International Sphere

Chair/discussant:  Professor Takis Tridimas (King’s College London)

Speakers:

Professor Niels M Blokker (Leiden) – ‘International Legal Personality of the EU’
Dr Angelos Dimopoulos (Queen Mary) – ‘Powers and Competences of the EU’
Professor Esa Paasivirta (European Commission / College d’Europe)

Lunch 12:30 – 13:30

13:30 – 15:00

(2) Sources – Customary International Law, Treaties, and Law of the EU

Chair/discussant:  Professor Roger O’Keefe (UCL)

Speakers:

Professor Ramses A Wessel (Twente) – ‘Legal Sources and Why Public International Law does not Borrow from EU Law’
Dr Theodore Konstandinides (Surrey) – ‘Customary Law as a Source of EU Law and Vice Versa: A Two-Way Fertilisation Route?’
Dr Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Oxford) – ‘UN Law and the EU Legal Order’

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 17:00

(3) Secondary rules – Norms of interpretation

Chair/discussant:  Professor Jean d'Aspremont (Manchester / Amsterdam)

Speakers:

Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary) – ‘The Use of Article 31 VCLT by the CJEU and its Conformity with General Rules of Interpretation’.
Dr Gunnar Beck (SOAS) – ‘The CJEU’s Cumulative Approach to Interpretation’.
Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary) – ‘Towards a Meta-Axiology? Human Rights as Regime Bridge’.

17:00 – 17:15 Preliminary conclusions by convenors

17:30 Drinks for all attendees

19:00 Dinner for speakers

DAY 2

09:00 – 10:30

(4) Doctrines and Devices – Articulating the Dialogue

Chair/discussant:  Dr Mario Mendez (Queen Mary)

Speakers:

Professor Katja Ziegler (Leicester) – ‘Systemic Integration: Risks and Opportunities’.
Dr Saskia Hufnagel (Queen Mary) – ‘Practice as Trust-building Tool: The case of Police Cooperation’.
Dr Tobias Lock (Edinburgh) – ‘Judicial Dialogue in Human Rights: Implications beyond Theory’.

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:30

(5) Principles – Questions of Autonomy, Authority, and Hierarchy

Chair/discussant:  Dr Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary)

Speakers:    
      
Professor Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Oxford) – ‘Towards Universal Constitutionalism?’
Dr Paul Gragl (Queen Mary) – ‘Hierarchies between (International) Legal Orders’.
Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott (Oxford) – ‘Networks as Alternative System Maker’.

12:30 Closing remarks and publication plans by convenors

Directions

For directions to the venue, please refer to the map.