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 |
| 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 Athanassios Tsakris Vice 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 |
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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: 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 |
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| 17.00-17.30: Coffee break – kindly sponsored by Cambridge University Press | |
| 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 Professor, Riga Graduate School of Law, 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 Helena Torroja Mateu Universitat de Barcelona Marko Milanovic University of Nottingham |
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| 20.00-21.30: Welcome reception |
Presidential Palace |
Launch of the Rosalyn Higgins Prize for the best article published in Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
| Friday, 13 September 2019 | |
| 08.00-09.00: Parallel events | Faculty Club |
| Breakfast Meeting: ESIL Board with New Members | |
| Breakfast Meeting with 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 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University |
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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 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 Professor John (Iannis) Mourmouras Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece 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 |
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| Forum IV: Adjudicating sovereignty: Consent in dispute settlement |
Argyriades Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Massimo Iovane Università di Napoli Federico II Emilie Gonin 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 | Drakopoulos Amphitheatre |
| Chair: Pål Wrange Stockholm University |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| The ‘Predominant Interest’ Concept in Maritime Delimitation Nicholas A. Ioannides University of Nicosia |
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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 Luxembourg | |
| 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 & data collected through 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: Andreas Ziegler Université de Lausanne | |
| 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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| 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 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 |
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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: 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 |
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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: 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 |
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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 & 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 Chair: Carlos Espósito Universidad Autόnoma de Madrid |
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 |
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| 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 Andrés Muñoz Mosquera ACO/SHAPE, NATO Nicholas Tsagourias University of Sheffield Karine Bannelier Université Grenoble Alpes |
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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 Christos Rozakis National & Kapodistrian University of Athens |
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| 14.00-14.30: Closing ceremony | Ceremonial Hall |