General Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives
Celebrating 20 Years of the Institute of European and Comparative Law
Draft Programme
Friday 25 September 2015
10.00 – 10.45
Registration and coffee
10.45 - 11.00
Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: General Principles of European Union Law
11.00 – 13.00
Co-ordinators:
Professor Joxerramon Bengoetxea (University of the Basque Country)
Professor Urska Sadl (University of Copenhagen)
Chair:
Professor Monica Claes (University of Maastricht)
Panellists:
Professor Alexander Somek (University of Vienna)
The Principle of Legality: Law as a Relation among People
Professor Kaarlo Tuori (University of Helsinki)
Varieties of Legal Principles
Professor Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg)
General Principles and Customary Law in the EU Legal Order
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch (St Anne’s College)
Session 2: Proportionality
Co-ordinators:
14.00 - 16.00
PARALLEL
SESSIONS
Professor Gráinne de Búrca (New York University)
Professor Alison Young (University of Oxford)
Session 3: Private Autonomy and Protection of the Weaker
Party
Co-ordinators:
Professor Stefan Vogenauer (University of Oxford)
Professor Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford)
Ms Petra Weingerl (University of Oxford)
Evolution of the Principle
Fundamentals
Professor Paul Craig (University of Oxford)
Title tbc
Professor Hector MacQueen (University of Edinburgh)
History
Advocate General Juliane Kokott (CJEU)
European Union
Dr Dori Kimel (University of Oxford)
Jurisprudential
Sir Philip Sales (Court of Appeal of England and Wales)
European Convention of Human Rights
Professor Fernando Gómez (Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona)
Economics
Professor Jeremias Prassl (University of Oxford)
Constitutional
16.00 - 16.30
16.30 – 18.00
PARALLEL
SESSIONS
Tea break
Session 2 continued
Session 3 continued
National Applications of the Principle Across Europe
Discrimination
Yoan Sanchez (Universities of Orléans and Strasbourg)
Recent Developments of the Principle of Proportionality in French
Administrative Law
Professor Sandra Fredman (University of Oxford)
Gender Discrimination
Dimitrios Nikiforos (tbc)
Greece: title tbc
Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen (Court of Justice)
Disability (Obesity)
Professor Guiseppe Martinico (Scuola Sant'Anna, Pisa) and Dr Marta
Simoncini (King’s College London and University of Antwerp)
An Italian Perspective on the Principle of Proportionality
Professor Iris Goldner Lang (University of Zagreb) and Tamara
Capeta (tbc)
Croatia: title tbc
Consumer Protection
Professor Daniela Caruso (Boston University)
Unfair Contract Terms
Professor Verica Trstenjak (University of Vienna)
Consumer Credit
Professor Helle Krunke (University of Copenhagen)
The Emergence and Application of Proportionality in Denmark in the
Light of European legal Integration
19.00 for
19.15
Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner (Balliol College) (for participants who have pre-booked)
Saturday 26 September 2015
Session 4: Legitimacy of Judge-made General Principles of Law
Co-ordinators:
Professor Michal Bobek (College of Europe)
Professor Jeremias Prassl (University of Oxford)
The Intersection Between Judge-made Law (or Judicial Creativity?) and Judicial Legitimacy from Various Perspectives
Professor Christoph Möllers (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin)
Constitutional
Professor Alec Stone Sweet (Yale University)
Political
09.00 – 11.00
Professor Stefan Vogenauer (University of Oxford)
Historical
A Comparative Analysis of Judge-made General Principles and Judicial Legitimacy Concerns in Selected Systems
Professor Catherine Redgwell (University of Oxford)
Public International Law
Professor Otto Pfersmann (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
German/French
Professor Jiři Přibáň (University of Cardiff)
New European Democracies
11.00 – 11.30
Coffee break
Session 4 continued
Panel Discussion on the Court of Justice
Chair:
11.30 – 13.00
Lord Mance (United Kingdom Supreme Court)
Professor Jeremias Prassl (University of Oxford)
Setting the Scene
Professor Daniel Sarmiento (Complutense University of Madrid)
The Court of Justice’s Perspective
Professor Christoph Grabenwarter (Austrian Constitutional Court and University of Vienna)
National Court’s Perspectives
Professor Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford)
A View from the (Academic) Sideline
13.00 – 13.15
13.15
Concluding Remarks
Lord Mance (United Kingdom Supreme Court)
Lunch (St Anne’s College)