In association with
- The Ethics Programme, University of Oslo,
- The Research Group on International Law and Governance, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo,
- The Centre for French-Norwegian Research Cooperation in Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Oslo/Paris
- UMR de Droit Comparé de Paris (Paris 1)
Objectives
The workshops have dual aims:
- to bring many participants in the 2009-10 CAS-project up to speed on present research in international law, international relations and international political theory of relevance for the project; and
- to prepare the content for a future PhD course on this topic, to be offered by the U of Oslo first in 2010/11. The University Ethics Programme has kindly provided some funding for this latter objective.
PROGRAMME AND READINGS:
The workshop will be in room 216 Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
November 27: Perspectives on ‘legitimacy’ from three disciplines
1300 Welcome address – Hélène Ruiz Fabri
Introduction – Geir Ulfstein
13.15 Philosophy – Andreas Føllesdal, Norway
- Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law New York Oxford UP 2004, Chap 7 (pp. 289-327, esp. 301 et seq.) (author is a philosopher)
- Andreas Follesdal: (2006). "The Legitimacy Deficits of the European Union." Journal of Political Philosophy 14(4): 441-468.
1400 – 1430 Discussion
1430 – 1445 Coffee
1445 – 1530 Political Science – Anne Julie Semb, Norway
- Andreas Schedler, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner (eds.), 1999. The self-restraining state: Power and Accountability in New democracies. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers (chapter 1 and 2).
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Tom Ginsburg, 2003. Judicial review in new democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases. Cambridge: Cambridge U.P. (the introductory chapter).
1530 – 1600 Discussion
1600 – 1630 Pause
16.30- 17.15 Law – Anne Peters, Switzerland
First priority:
- Daniel Bodansky, The Legitimacy of International Governance: A Coming Challenge to International Environmental Law, 93 AJIL 596 et seq. (1999).
- Martti Koskenniemi, Legitimacy, Rights and Ideology, Notes Towards a Critique of the New Moral Internationalism, 7 Associations: Journal for Legal and Social Theory (2003), 349-373. (Basic thesis: legitimacy is "ersatz" normativity. It avoids talk of legality on the one hand and morality on the other hand. The issue is to retain power in the discipline. in reality an ideology /hegemony/paternalism. p. 357: "ideological character of legitimacy talk").
- Allen Buchanan, Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law New York Oxford UP 2004, Chap 7 (pp. 289-327, esp. 301 et seq.) (author is a philosopher)
Second priority:
- Franck, Thomas,The Power of Legitimacy among Nations, Oxford UP 1990, Prelude (pp. 3-26).
- Ian Clark, Legitimacy in international society. Oxford UP: Oxford 2005, Conclusions (pp. 245-256). (The author is a political scientist)
1715 – 1800 Discussion
1930 Dinner
November 28: Is international judicial review of human rights legitimate?
0900 – 0945 Political Science - Freek Bruinsma, the Netherlands
- Fred Bruinsma:“A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Legitimacy of Highest Courts”
- J.H. Gerards: “Judicial Deliberations in the European Court of Human Rights”
- Marc A. Loth: “Courts in Quest for Legitimacy: A comparative approach”
- Barbara Oomen: “Justice Mechanisms and the Question of Legitimacy: The Example of Rwanda’s Multi-layered Justice Mechanisms.” The articles by Bruinsma, Loth and Gerards originated at a conference at the Erasmus University Rotterdam at the end of 2007. Special guest was Mitchel Lasser because of his book Judicial Deliberations. A comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy, 2004. Together with other contributions they will published in a volume later this year. Oomen is relevant for the workshop as an extreme case analysis.
Recommended:
- Mitchel Lasser: Judicial Deliberations. A comparative Analysis of Judicial Transparency and Legitimacy, 2004. A summary is available as “Anticipating Three Models of Judicial Control, Debate and Legitimacy: The European Court of Justice, the Cour de cassation and the United States Supreme Court ” 2003 Jean Monnet Paper 1/03, NYU School of Law.
- Martin Shapiro and Alec Stone Sweet, On Law, Politics, and Judicialization, Oxford University Press 2002, especially ch. 1-3, (pp.1-208).
0945 – 1100 Discussion
1100 – 1115 Coffee
1115 – 1200 Law – Hélène Tigroudja, France
- R. Ryssdal, "On the road to a European constitutional Court", in Recueil des cours de l'Académie de droit européen, 1991, pp. 3-20.
- E.A. Alkema, "The European Convention as a constitution and its Court as a constitutional Court", in Mélanges Ryssdal, Carl Heymmans Verlag, 2000, pp. 41-63;
- J. Jackson. "Broniowski v. Poland : a recipe for increased legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights as a supranational Constitutional Court", Connecticut Law Review 2006, pp. 759-806.
- M. Eudes, "La légitimité du juge de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme : observations sur la représentativité et l'indépendance du juge de Strasbourg", Revue québequoise de droit international 2000, pp. 131-166.
1200 – 1300 Discussion
1300-1400 Lunch
1400 – 1445 Philosophy - Richard Bellamy, UK
- Richard Bellamy and Justus Schönlau: "The Normality of Constitutional Politics: An Analysis of the Drafting of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights." Constellations Volume 11, No 3, 2004, 412-433.
- Richard Bellamy: "The Democratic Constitution: Why Europeans sohuld avoid American Style Constitutional Judicial Review" European Political Science 7 2008: 9-20.
- Richard Bellamy. "Rights and the Right to have Rights" in Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press 2008.
1445 – 1600 Discussion
1600 – 1700 Conclusions and discussion of future plans for the project ‘Should states ratify human rights conventions?’
Registered Participants
- Mads Andenæs
- Henriette Sinding Aasen
- Richard Bellamy
- Eirik Bjørge
- Fred Bruinsma
- Basak Cali
- Jeff Checkel
- Mariamah Crona
- Hélène Ruiz Fabri
- Ole Kristian Fauchald
- Andreas Føllesdal
- Tor- Inge Harbo
- Jan Klabbers
- Evelyn Lagrange
- Ragnar Nordeide
- Anne Peters
- Kristin Sandvik
- Anne Julie Semb
- Eivind Smith
- Hélène Tigroudja
- Geir Ulfstein
- Alice Wyss
- Sisay A. Yeshanew
Project information