- 15th ESIL Conference

Under the Auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr. Prokopios Pavlopoulos

Conference Programme

Thursday, 12 September 2019
08.00-20.00: All day registration	Faculty Club

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 Meletios-Athanassios Dimopoulos Rector, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Professor Kalliopi Christakakou-Fotiadou Dean, Faculty of Law Professor Luis Hinojosa President, European Society of International Law Professor Photini Pazartzis Chair, ESIL@Athens2019 Programme Committee; Director, Athens PIL
15.15-16.00: Inaugural address
H.E. The President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos
16.00-17.00: Nicolas Politis Lecture
Sovereignty – The past and the future Yves Daudet Professor emeritus, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; President, Curatorium of The Hague Academy of International Law

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
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
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
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
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

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
Asylum processing in the post-refugee crisis EU: Holding the European Asylum Support Office accountable Evangelia (Lilian) Tsourdi Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University
Do Non-entrée Policies amount to Persecution? Death as a Feature of Extraterritorial Border Controls Violeta Moreno-Lax Queen Mary University of London

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
Data and the Elasticity of Sovereignty Roxana Vatanparast Università degli studi di Torino
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

10.30-11.00: Coffee break Launch of the Rosalyn Higgins Prize for the best article published in Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals

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 Lee C. Buchheit University of Edinburgh August Reinisch University of Vienna, Member of the International Law Commission Margot E. Salomon London School of Economics and Political Science
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

12.30-14.30: Lunch break – kindly sponsored by Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Professional Launch event: Jan Wouters, Cedric Ryngaert, Tom Ruys and Geert De Baere, International Law: a European Perspective, Hart Publishing, 2018

12.30-13.30: Meeting of Editors and Publishers of the International Law Journals	Drakopoulos Amphitheatre
13.30-14.30: Mentoring Event	Argyriades Amphitheatre
Chair: Gleider Hernández Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Open Universiteit Nederland Mauro Politi Università di Trento Freya Baetens University of Oslo Lydia-Maria Bolani UNHCR Greece
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
Disputed Territories on Land: Why the Administrative Status Quo Is More Important than Sovereignty Constantinos Yiallourides British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Shared Natural Resources and Territorial Disputes: Environmental Paradigm Shift against Fragmentation of Sovereignty Dragutin Nenezic University of Belgrade
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
Why Can’t the Creations of Sovereigns Also Be Sovereign? International Organizations and the Legal Concept of Sovereignty Fernando Lusa Bordin University of Cambridge
Sovereign Corporations in a Global Legal Order Dorothea Endres The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
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
Agora VI: Extending sovereignty: Space activities and new frontiers	Argyriades Amphitheatre
Chair: Mahulena Hoffmann Université de Luxembourg
There’s sovereignty in outer space; it’s just not what you think Charles Stotler University of Mississippi
Property Rights in Outer Space: Space Material Resources & data collected through Machine Learning Technologies Anthi Koskina Athens PIL, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens; Collège IdEF-Université Paris 13
Space Debris: The Atomisation of Sovereignty Ward Munters Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

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
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
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

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
WTO Security Exceptions and Countermeasures Danae Azaria University College London
Managing the Trade Rule of Law Kathleen Claussen University of Miami

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
The Institutionalisation of Drone Programmes: Entering the Normal Functioning of the State Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi European University Institute
The Implication of Sovereignty in Contemporary Interpretative Debates in International Humanitarian Law Abhimanyu George Jain The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
20.00 / 20.30-23.00: Conference Dinner Welcome drinks – kindly sponsored by Oxford University Press Launch of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law – MPEiPro	S Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center

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
Circumventing Sovereignty through Transnationalization of Environmental Law Mona Agha Seyed Jafar Kashfi University of Tehran
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
Whose Atmosphere? Sovereignty, Acquisition, and Responsibility for Atmospheric Harms Tom Sparks Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg

Agora XI: Culture as or against sovereignty Convened by the Interest Group on the International Law of Culture	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
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
Cultural Expertise and State Sovereignty in Europe Livia Holden University of Oxford

Agora XII: Spatio-temporal dimensions of sovereignty in international law Convened by the Interest Group on International Legal Theory & Philosophy	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
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
Spatio-Temporal Dimensions of Indigenous Sovereignty in International Law Valentina Vadi Lancaster University

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

10.30-11.30: Conversation with the ESIL Book Prize Winner	Drakopoulos Foyer

11.30-13.00: Parallel sessions
Forum V: Sovereignty resurgent: Crisis of the multilateral institutional system?	Ceremonial Hall
Chair: Maria Telalian Principal Legal Adviser, Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs Laurence R. Helfer Duke University Stelios Perrakis Panteion University, Athens Giorgio Sacerdoti Università Bocconi, Milan

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
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 Christos Rozakis National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
14.00-14.30: Closing ceremony	Ceremonial Hall

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