Oslo 14-15 May 2009
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P R O G R A M
THURSDAY MAY 14
8.00 Bus transport for COST participants from Universitetsplassen and Hotel Stefan.
8.45 Welcome speeches:
Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald (University of Oslo)
Professor Erika de Wet (University of Amsterdam)
9.00-13.00: Session 1
Methods of Interpretation by International Tribunals
Chair: Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald (University of Oslo)
9.00-10.00 Speakers
Professor Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Université Paris 1): The Reasoning of International Courts
Professor Mads Andenæs (University of Oslo): The Use of Judgements of other Courts by International Courts
10.15-11.15 Paper presentations
Sources of Law and Arbitral Interpretation of Pari Materia Investment Protection Rules
Martins Paparinskis (University of Oxford)
The dialectic between Unity and Fragmentation of international criminal justice: Overlap, clash or complementarity between International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law?
Amna Guellali (T.M.C. Asser Institute for International Law, The Hague)
The Relevance of the VCLT for the ECHR’s Method of Interpreting the Convention in Light of Other International Treaties
Ragnar Nordeide (University of Oslo)
Customary Rules of Interpretation in the Jurisprudence of the WTO Dispute Settlement Bodies – Explicit Recognition, Practical Failures
Lukasz Gruszczynski (European University Institute, Florence)
11.45-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-18.00: Session 2
Jurisdictional Overlaps between International Tribunals and Compliance Mechanisms
Chair: Professor Geir Ulfstein (University of Oslo)
14.00-14.30 Speaker
Professor Yuval Shany, (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): One Law to Rule Them All: Should International Courts be viewed as Guardians of Legal Uniformity
14.45-15.45 Paper presentations
Competition in the Fragmentation of International Law
William Worster (The Hague University)
Analyzing International Tribunals as Rational Actors: Acting ‘for’ or ‘against’ Fragmentation? An Illustration with the Mox case.
Elodie Tranchez (University of Aix-en-Provence)
Resolving Jurisdictional Overlap between the IMF and the WTO
Claus D. Zimmermann (University of Oxford)
Addressing Subregional Challenges to the Unity of African International Human Rights Law
Solomon T. Ebobrah (University of Pretoria)
16.15-17.30 Discussion
19.00 Dinner
FRIDAY MAY 15
9.00-13.00 Session 3:
Dialogue or Conflict between International Tribunals and National Courts?
Chair: Professor Erika de Wet (University of Amsterdam)
9.00-10.00 Speakers
Professor Christoph Schreuer (University of Vienna): Interactions of International Tribunals and Domestic Courts in Investment Law
Dr. Aristotle Constantinides (University of Cyprus): Diplomatic Assurances against Torture in International and Domestic Jurisprudence: What Lessons from Inter-Judicial Communication?
10.15-11.15 Paper presentations
The Influence of the Inter-American Court on Human Rights as an Actor of Multilevel Governance: Its Impact on National Legal Orders
Amaya Ubeda de Torres (Free University of Brussels)
Judicial Dialogue in Multi-level Governance: The Impact of the Solange Argument
Antonios Tzanakopoulos (University of Oxford)
Immunity: Multiple Law-Making in Action
Philippa Webb (Yale Law School, New Haven)
Legal Integration through Judicial Dialogue: The Case of Balancing Schemes
Tor-Inge Harbo (European University Institute, Florence)
11.45-13.00 Discussion
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-18.00 Session 4:
Unity of Fragmentation of International Law: The Practice of Domestic Courts
Chair: Professor André Nollkaemper (University of Amsterdam)
14.00-14.30 Speakers
Assistant professor Robert J. Currie (Dalhousie University): Flux and Fragmentation in the International Law of State Jurisdiction: The Synecdochal Example of Canada’s Domestic Court Conflicts over Accountability for International Human Rights Violations
14.45-15.45 Paper presentations
The Systemic Integration of International Law by Domestic Courts: Domestic Judges as Architects of the Consistency of the International Legal Order
Jean d'Aspremont (University of Amsterdam)
Subtle but Enduring - The Role of Domestic Courts in the Shaping of International Economic Law through Proper Interpretation of Domestic Law
Andreas R. Ziegler (University of Lausanne)
Unity, Diversity and the Occasional Exception: Racial Discrimination in Japan
Timothy Webster (Yale Law School, New Haven)
16.15-17.30 Discussion
17.30-18.00 Final remarks
Professor Geir Ulfstein (University of Oslo)
Professor André Nollkaemper (University of Amsterdam)
END OF CONFERENCE
19.30 Bus transport from Soria Moria Conference Hotel to Universitetsplassen and Hotel Stefan.