Societal Risk in a Legal Perspective

The seminar is part of the seminar series Societal risks and risk society: A cross-disciplinary and cross-stakeholder dialogue perspective, funded by the Research Council of Norway's programme Societal Security and Risk.

Abstracts
Reading list (for PhD-students)

Programme

Monday 15 June
09.30-10.00: Registration and coffee

10.00-10.15: Welcome (Heidi Mork Lomell)

10.15-12.15: Risk and Law (chair: Katja Franko Aas)

10.15-11.00: Keynote address I

  • Fines, risks and damages: Money sanctions and legal regulation. Abstract. (Pat O’Malley)

11.15-12.15: Paper presentations

  • Long-tail risks and the tort-insurance constellation (Jenny Steele and Robert Merkin)
  • Legal issues surrounding risk prevention illustrated by the maritime sector (Alla Pozdnakova)

12.15-13.15: Lunch

13.15-15.15: Risk Analysis (chair: Sverre Blandhol)

13.15-14.00: Keynote address II

14.15-15.15: Paper presentations

  • Analyzing legal risk (Tobias Mahler)
  • Making Risk Regulation Stick: Implementing and Enforcing Information Security Regulations (Tommy Tranvik)

15.15-15.45: Coffee

15.45-17.45: Risk Management (chair: Kåre Lilleholt)

15.45-16.30: Keynote address III

16.45-17.15: Paper presentation

  • Civilians at risk; In war (Sigrid Redse Johansen)

17.30: Reception

Tuesday 16 June
09.00-09.15: Coffee

09.15-11.15: Risk Regulation (chair: Johannes Brinkmann)

09.15-10.00: Keynote address IV

  • Shifting contracts, operational risk, and regulatory mythologies. Abstract. (Alexandros Kyrtsis)

10.15-11.15: Paper presentations

  • Flood risk management in a legal perspective (Linmei Nie and Kristina Heilemann)
  • On risk management as an integral part of internal control obligations in Norwegian legislation (Herbjørn Andresen)

11.30-16.15: Justice in the Risk Society (chair: Vidar Halvorsen)

11.30-12.15: Keynote address V

  • Security and the 'risky other': Doing justice in a world of strangers (Barbara Hudson)

12.15-13.15: Lunch

13.15-14.15: Paper presentations

  • Managing meaning through metaphor: Risk management and criminal justice policy (Sarah Armstrong)
  • Prisoner subject positions and the assemblage of power techniques in the white paper ‘Straff som virker’ (Thomas Ugelvik)

14.15-14.45: Coffee

14.45-16.15: Paper presentations

  • Legal institutions and corruption in the Polish post-communist bureaucuracy from the viewpoint of civic risk and uncertainty (A. Jan Kutylowski)
  • Police co-operation in the risk society (Synnøve Ugelvik)
  • Human rights at risk? On the emerging genre of preventive justice and pre-punishment (Heidi Mork Lomell)

16.30-17.00: Closing discussion
 

For further information, please contact Heidi Mork Lomell

Publisert 19. jan. 2010 15:02 - Sist endret 14. mai 2019 10:26