Research Workshop EXTRATERRITORIALITY OF EU LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS AFTER LISBON: SCOPE AND BOUNDARIES Sussex European Institute – Freeman Building University of Sussex - 13 & 14 July 2017 Draft programme Day 1: 13 July 2017 1-2pm Registration & lunch 2-2.30pm
Welcome address –Professor Andrew Sanders, Sussex Law School
Introduction to the workshop – Dr Samantha Velluti, Sussex Law School and Dr Vassilis Tzevelekos, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool 2.30-3.30pm
Keynote Speech - Professor Joanne Scott, School of Law - UCL 3.30-4.30pm
Session 1. Theoretical aspects of the extraterritoriality of EU law and Articles 3(5) and 21 TEU
Chair: Dr Vassilis Tzevelekos, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool - Professor Eleanor Spaventa, School of Law, University of Durham, ‘Is the application of the Charter ever extra-territorial?' - Dr Theodore Konstadinides, School of Law, University of Essex, ‘The Intersection between the European and International Rule of Law’ - Dr Antal Berkes, School of Law, University of Manchester, ‘The extraterritorial human rights obligations of the EU in its external trade and investment policies’
Discussant: Dr Joshua Curtis, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool 4.30-4.45pm Coffee break 4.45-5.45pm
Session 2. Relationship between EU law and International law and the international responsibility of the EU Chair and discussant: Professor Christian Henderson, Sussex Law School
- Professor Cedric Ryngaert, School of Law, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, ‘Extraterritorial accountability and EU external action: the case of trade relations with occupied territories’ - Ms Maruša T. Veber, Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, ‘Human rights obligations of the European Union in the context of the adoption of countermeasures’ - Dr Scarlett McArdle, School of Law, Birmingham City University, ‘The European Union and the difficulties of attribution: the need for shared responsibility’ 7.30pm Dinner (Venue tbc)
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Day 2: 14 July 2017 9-9.30am Refreshments 9.30-10.30am Session 3: Substantive areas of EU external action: EU Competition Law and public procurement
Chair: Professor Nuno Ferreira, Sussex Law School - Professor Erika Szyszczak Sussex Law School, ‘EU competition rules in the EU-Ukraine Agreement’ - Dr Maria Anna Corvaglia, Birmingham Law School, ‘Public procurement and its extraterritorial use for the protection of socio-environmental concerns’ - Dr Albert Sanchez Graells, School of Law, University of Bristol, ‘An ever changing scope? The expansive boundaries of EU public procurement rules and their extraterritoriality’ - Dr Aris Georgopoulos, School of Law, University of Nottingham, ‘Using EU public procurement standards in order to achieve human rights objectives outside the EU’ Discussant: Dr Kamala Dawar, Sussex Law School 10-30.11am Coffee break 11am-12pm Session 4: Substantive areas of EU external action: EU environmental law; human rights conditionality in trade agreements; EU asylum law
Chair and discussant: Dr Samantha Velluti, Sussex Law School - Dr Clair Gammage, School of Law, University of Bristol, ‘The normative nature of social norms in EU-Free Trade Agreements: Toward “Development-Friendly” Trade?’ - Dr Elaine Fahey, The City Law School, University of London, ‘A taxonomy of the EU’s “global” approach to law-making’ - Dr Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva, Ukranian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, ‘External dimension of the EU human rights policy: normative effect of the human rights clauses in the association agreements with Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova’
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- Dr Sonia Morano-Foadi, School of Law, Oxford Brookes University, ‘Extraterritoriality and EU migration law and policy’ 12-1pm Lunch 1-2.30pm
Session 5: Policy Section
Chair: Professor Paul Taggart, School of Politics, University of Sussex and Director of Sussex European Institute - Mr Andrea Mogni, European External Action Service and Alber & Geiger. ‘The integration of human rights in the EU’s external relations’ - Ms Karin Ulmer, ACT Alliance EU, ‘EU's approach to human rights enforcements related to EU trade and investment policies’ - Mr Anders Neergaard, European Parliament, Directorate for Institutional and Parliamentary Affairs, Unit for External Relations, ‘The issue of fundamental rights and the values and principles of the EU in the external action under Article 3(5) and 21(32) TEU’ Discussants: Dr Elaine Fahey, The City Law School, University of London and Professor Paul Taggart, School of Politics, University of Sussex and Director of Sussex European Institute 2.30-3pm
Concluding remarks by the organizers – follow up on post-workshop publication
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