Under the Auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos
Conference Programme
- Thursday, 12 September 2019
- Friday, 13 September 2019
- Saturday, 14 September 2019
| Thursday, 12 September 2019 | |
| 08.00-20.00: All day registration | Faculty Club |
| Pre-conference meetings of the ESIL Interest Groups | |
| 08.00-08.45: ESIL Board Meeting with Interest Group Convenors | Faculty Club |
| 08.15-10.45: Parallel Interest Group sessions | |
| Interest Group on Environmental Law | Faculty Club, Exhibition Room |
| Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals | Faculty Club, Hall |
| Interest Group on the International Law of Culture | Faculty Club, Main Room |
| Interest Group on Business and Human Rights | Academias 45, Room 1 |
| Interest Group on the EU as Global Actor | Academias 45, Room 2 |
| Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law | Academias 45, Room 3 |
| Interest Group on International Economic Law | Law Faculty, Economides Hall |
| Interest Group on History of International Law | Law Library, Amphitheatre |
| Interest Group on International Health Law | Law Library, Hall |
| Interest Group on International Bio Law | Athens PIL |
| 10.45-11.00: Coffee break | |
| 11.00-13.30: Parallel Interest Group sessions | |
| Interest Group on Environmental Law | Faculty Club, Exhibition Room |
| Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals | Faculty Club, Hall |
| Interest Group on the Law of the Sea | Faculty Club, Main Room |
| Interest Group on Feminism and International Law | Faculty Club, Rector’s Room |
| Interest Group on International Organizations | Academias 45, Room 1 |
| Interest Group on the EU as Global Actor | Academias 45, Room 2 |
| Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law | Academias 45, Room 3 |
| Interest Group on International Economic Law | Law Faculty, Economides Hall |
| Interest Group on History of International Law | Law Library, Amphitheatre |
| Interest Group on International Human Rights Law | Law Library, Hall |
| ESIL Annual Conference | |
| 14.00-17.00: Opening Ceremony Please, be on time: Badges required for security screening. Audience must be seated by 14.45 |
Ceremonial Hall |
| 15.00-15.15: Welcome | |
| Professor Luis Hinojosa President, European Society of International Law |
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| 15.15-16.00: Inaugural address | |
| H.E. The President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos |
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| 16.00-17.00: Keynote address | |
| Sovereignty – The past and the future Yves Daudet Professor emeritus, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; President, Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law |
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| 17.00-17.30: Coffee break | |
| 17.30-19.00: Parallel sessions | |
| Forum I: [Re-]Defining sovereignty: The Montevideo principles revisited | Ceremonial Hall |
| Chair: Marcelo Kohen The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva Sarah Nouwen Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge Hélène Ruiz-Fabri Director, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law Ineta Ziemele President, Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia |
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| Forum II: Challenging sovereignty: Contested statehood | Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Iulia Motoc Judge, European Court of Human Rights Mariana Durney Legal Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chile Tom Grant Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge Helena Torroja Mateu Universitat de Barcelona |
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| 20.00-21.30: Welcome reception |
Presidential Palace |
| Friday, 13 September 2019 | |
| 08.00-09.00: Parallel events | Faculty Club |
| Breakfast Meeting: ESIL Board with New Members | |
| Meet the editors of the European Journal of International Law | |
| 09.00-10.30: Parallel sessions | |
| Agora I: Beyond Sovereignty: ABNJ and the Law of the Sea | Ceremonial Hall |
| Chair: Liesbeth Lijnzaad Judge, International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea | |
| Rethinking Conservation of Marine Biodiversity beyond National Boundaries: Justice, Property and the Commons Anna Aseeva National Research University ‘Higher School of Economics’, Moscow |
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| Mare Liberum, Mare Clausum and Mare Geneticum or Mare Nostrum: Negotiating marine natural resources, including MGRs. Remarks from the theoretical and practical perspectives Konrad Marciniak Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
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| Sovereignty and challenges of the future ILBI: How to reconcile the individual interest of States at sea and the ‘common interest of mankind’? Pascale Ricard Université Angers |
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| Agora II: Exercising sovereignty: Managing migratory flows | Drakopoulos Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Philippe de Bruycker Université libre de Bruxelles | |
| Digital Borders and Data Territories: Sovereignty, Territoriality and Data-Driven Infrastructures of Border Control Dimitri Van Den Meerssche Asser Institute |
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| Asylum processing in the post-refugee crisis EU: Holding the European Asylum Support Office accountable Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford |
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| Do Non-entrée Policies amount to Persecution? Death as a Feature of Extraterritorial Border Controls Violeta Moreno-Lax Queen Mary University of London |
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| Agora III: Expanding sovereignty: Extraterritoriality as a tool | Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Yuval Shany Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Cosmopolitan Extraterritoriality: The Exercise of Unilateral Jurisdiction to Further Global Values and Common Interests Cedric Ryngaert Utrecht University |
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| Data and the Elasticity of Sovereignty Roxana Vatanparast Università degli studi di Torino |
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| How to Deal with Negative Cross-border Externalities of States’ Domestic Economic and Social Policies: Functional Conceptions to Human Rights-Related Extraterritoriality Elif Askin Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg |
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| 10.30-11.00: Coffee break – kindly sponsored by Brill Launch of the Rosalyn Higgins Prize for the best article published in Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals |
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| 11.00-12.30: Parallel sessions | |
| Forum III: Diluting sovereignty: State finance and economic decision-making |
Ceremonial Hall |
| Chair: Geneviève Bastid-Burdeau Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne Yannis Stournaras Governor, Bank of Greece (tbc) Lee C. Buchheit Non-resident Fellow, Columbia University August Reinisch University of Vienna, Member of the International Law Commission Margot Salomon London School of Economics and Political Science |
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| Forum IV: Adjudicating sovereignty: Consent in dispute settlement |
Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Massimo Iovane Università di Napoli Federico II Jennifer Robinson Doughty Street Chambers Christian Tams University of Glasgow Sienho Yee Wuhan University |
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| 12.30-14.30: Lunch break | |
| 12.30-13.30: Meeting of Editors and Publishers of the International Law Journals | Argyriades Foyer |
| 13.30-14.30: Mentoring Event | Drakopoulos Foyer |
| 14.30-16.00: Parallel sessions | |
| Agora IV: Apportioning sovereignty: Delimitation as a sovereignty exercise | Ceremonial Hall |
| Chair: Constantinos Salonidis Foley Hoag LLP | |
| Natural Resources in Disputed EEZ and Continental Shelf Areas: Balancing between Development and Restraint by Neighbouring Coastal States Youri van Logchem Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law, Swansea University |
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| Disputed Territories on Land: Why the Administrative Status Quo Is More Important than Sovereignty Constantinos Yiallourides British Institute of International and Comparative Law |
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| Shared Natural Resources and Territorial Disputes: Environmental Paradigm Shift against Fragmentation of Sovereignty Dragutin Nenezic University of Belgrade |
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| Agora V: Questing sovereignty: The corporation in international law and the role of non-State actors | Drakopoulos Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Niki Aloupi Université Paris II Panthéon Assas | |
| Functional Limits of State Sovereignty: Direct International Legal Rights and Obligations of Collective Non-State Entities Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg University of Nottingham |
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| Why Can’t the Creations of Sovereigns Also Be Sovereign? International Organizations and the Legal Concept of Sovereignty Fernando Lusa Bordin University of Cambridge |
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| Sovereign Corporations in a Global Legal Order Dorothea Endres The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva |
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| The evolution of the concept of territorial sovereignty. From the traditional Westphalian system to the State-peoples binomial Michele Nino Università degli studi di Salerno |
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| Agora VI: Extending sovereignty: Space activities and new frontiers | Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Mahulena Hoffmann Université de Luxemburg | |
| There’s sovereignty in outer space; it’s just not what you think Charles Stotler University of Mississippi |
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| Property Rights in Outer Space: Space Material Resources and Machine Learning Technologies Anthi Koskina Athens PIL, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; Collège IdEF-Université Paris 13 |
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| Space Debris: The Atomisation of Sovereignty Ward Munters Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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| 16.00-16.15: Coffee break | |
| 16.15-18.00: ESIL General Assembly | Ceremonial Hall |
| 18.00-19.30: Parallel sessions | |
| Agora VII: Enforcing sovereignty: The rapidly expanding international tax law | Ceremonial Hall |
| Chair: Nicola Bonucci Director of Legal Affairs, OECD | |
| Imposing Customs on Taxes: Customary International Law in International Tax Law Céline Braumann University of Vienna |
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| Examining the modern practices of sovereignty and its relationship to territory through the lens of international tax law Akbar Rasulov & Gail Lythgoe University of Glasgow |
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| Can the OECD anti-BEPS paradigms be adopted within the EU? Juridical problems as regards the “Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive” María Cruz Barreiro Carril Universidad de Vigo |
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| Agora VIII: Defending sovereignty: Protectionism in international trade and investment | Drakopoulos Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Gabrielle Marceau Legal Affairs Division, WTO; University of Geneva | |
| Constitutional Courts’ narratives on investment arbitration: Overcoming anxieties towards engagement José Gustavo Prieto Muñoz Università degli studi di Torino |
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| My Sovereignty is better than Your Sovereignty – From the New International Economic Order to Donald Trump Alessandra Asteriti Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
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| WTO Security Exceptions and Countermeasures Danae Azaria University College London |
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| Managing the Trade Rule of Law Kathleen Claussen University of Miami |
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| Agora IX: Attacking sovereignty: Terrorism and the use of force | Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Antonios Tzanakopoulos University of Oxford | |
| The Law and Ethics of Foreign Troop Withdrawals in the Global Fight against Terrorism Jessica Almqvist Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
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| The Institutionalisation of Drone Programmes: Entering the Normal Functioning of the State Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi European University Institute |
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| The Implication of Sovereignty in Contemporary Interpretative Debates in International Humanitarian Law Abhimanyu George Jain The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva |
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| 20.00 / 20.30-23.00: Conference Dinner | |
| Saturday, 14 September 2019 | |
| 09.00-10.30: Parallel sessions | |
| Agora X: Circumventing sovereignty: The challenges of environmental regulation |
Ceremonial Hall |
| Chair: Malgosia Fitzmaurice Queen Mary University of London | |
| The Paris Agreement and the Empowerment of State Sovereignty Anne Saab The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva |
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| Circumventing Sovereignty through Transnationalization of Environmental Law Mona Agha Seyed Jafar Kashfi University of Tehran |
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| Circumventing Sovereignty: Rethinking Climate Change from a Relational, Embodied and Unbounded Perspective Marie-Catherine Petersmann European University Institute; Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University |
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| Whose Atmosphere? Sovereignty, Acquisition, and Responsibility for Atmospheric Harms Tom Sparks Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg |
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| Agora XI: Interest Group International Law of Culture: Culture as or against sovereignty |
Drakopoulos Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Hanna Schreiber University of Warsaw | |
| Can cultural heritage be all things to all people? On cultural value and sovereignty Sophie Starrenburg Universiteit Leiden |
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| The protection of cross-border culture under international law and State Sovereignty: Transcending borders through Intangible Cultural Heritage? Aliki Gkana National and Kapodistrian University of Athens |
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| Cultural Expertise and State Sovereignty in Europe Livia Holden University of Oxford |
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| Agora XII: Interest Group on International Legal Theory & Philosophy: Spatio-temporal dimensions of sovereignty in international law | Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko National University of Ireland Galway | |
| Difference in the Concept of Sovereignty in Spatial Dimension: Reflecting the Legal Approach to the East Asian Territorial Disputes So Yeon Kim University of Cambridge |
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| Rethinking International Law and Remoteness: Topophilia, Resource Extraction, and the History of International Law in the Americas (Atacama Desert) Christopher R. Rossi University of Iowa |
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| Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Indigenous Sovereignty in International Law Valentina Vadi Lancaster University |
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| 10.30-11.30: Coffee break – kindly sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Launch of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War |
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| 10.30-11.30: Conversation with the ESIL Book Prize Winner | Drakopoulos Foyer |
| 11.30-13.00: Parallel sessions | |
| Forum V: Current events | Ceremonial Hall |
| Forum VI: Bypassing sovereignty: Enforcing rules in cyberspace | Argyriadis Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Theodore Christakis Université Grenoble Alpes Tatiana Jančárková National Office for Cyber- and Information Security, Czech Republic Matthias C. Kettemann Leibniz Institute for Media Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg Andrés Muñoz Mosquera ACO/SHAPE, NATO Mariarosaria Taddeo Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford |
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| 13.00-14.00: Round-Table Discussion | Ceremonial Hall |
| Foundations of international law: The way ahead | |
| Moderator: Linos Alexander Sicilianos President, European Court of Human Rights; National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Georges Abi-Saab The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva James Crawford International Court of Justice Anne Peters Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg Catherine Redgwell University of Oxford |
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| 14.00-14.30: Closing ceremony | Ceremonial Hall |