Wednesday 21 January 2015
19:00
Workshop on the Rule of
Law, Governance and
Natural Resources
Programme
Pre-Conference Dinner
Mappa, Nes 59, 1012 KD Amsterdam,
+3120 528 9170
Registration and Coffee
Introductory Remarks
Panel 1: Extractive Industries and Local
Communities
David Szablowski (Department of Social
Science, York University, Canada), New
Extractivisms and Indigenous Governance:
Struggles over Indigenous Consultation
Legislation in Canada and Peru
Jewellord T. Nem Singh, Jean B. Grugel
and Pascale Hatcher (Sheffield Institute
for International Development, University
of Sheffield) Can Extractive Industries
Deliver Poverty Reduction? Lessons from
Mongolia and the Philippines
Javier Tous (Universidad del Norte,
Colombia) Human Rights and the
Exploitation of Natural Resources: Mining's
Nightmare in Colombia
Panel 2: Agriculture and Land
Michael Fakhri (School of Law, University
of Oregon), What Does Food have to do
with Global Law and Governance?
Ana Elizabeth Bastida (School of Law,
University of Dundee), Evolving Rightsbased Approaches to Land Access and Use
under Resource Tenure Regimes: A Critical
Appraisal
Elizabeth Fortin (School of Law, University
of Bristol), Stakeholder Engagement in
Producing ‘Hybrid’ Governance; Resolving
‘Sustainability’ in Standards Processes
Law School, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6,
Room A.009
09.00
09.15
09.15
09.30
09.30
11.00
Coffee Break
Chair: Koen de Feyter (University of
Antwerp)
Thursday 22 January 2015
Chair: Koen de Feyter (University of
Antwerp)
University of Amsterdam
22 – 23 January 2015
11.00
11.30
11.30
13.00
13.00
14.00
14.00
15.45
Lunch
Panel 3: Governance, Law and Natural
Resources
Chair: Celine Tan (University of Warwick)
Annegret Mähler and Almut SchillingVacaflor (GIGA Institute of Latin American
Studies, University of Hamburg) Site
Fights: Explaining Varying Levels of
Contestation over New Gas Projects in
Indigenous Territories in Bolivia
Recardo Pereira (Westminster Business
School, University of Westminster),
Developing the Principles of International
Law for Interstate Cooperation and
Governance of Shared Natural Resources
Ellen Desmet (Law and Development
Research Group, University of Antwerp,
and Human Rights Centre, Ghent
University, Belgium) Natural Resources
Legislation In Peru: A Critical Analysis from
A Socio-Legal Perspective
Felix Conteh, Deval Desai, Nat King, Nick
Menzies, Jared Schott (World Bank/SOAS),
Community Development Agreements and
the Rule of Law: From Law to Governance
of Extractive Industries
15.45
16.15
16.15
17.45
Friday, 23 January 2015
Law School, Oudemanhuispoort 4-6,
C 1.17
09.00
10.30
Deborah Isser, Catherine Anderson and
Jared Schott (World Bank), Toward
Equitable Natural Resource
Management in Liberia: A Focus on
Citizen-Engagement
Daniëlla Dam-de Jong (Grotius Centre
for International Legal Studies,
University of Leiden), The role of
informal normative processes in
improving governance over natural
resources in conflict-torn states
Aoife McCullough (Overseas
Development Institute, UK), Increasing
Civil Society Participation in Concession
Negotiations in Liberia
Panel 4: Local Communities, Resistance
and Rule of Law
Chair: Celine Tan (University of Warwick)
19.00
Conference Dinner
Krua Thai Restaurant, Staalstraat 22, 2011
JM, Amsterdam,
+31206229533
Panel 5: Conflict and Rule of Law
Chair: Ronald Janse (University of
Amsterdam)
Coffee Break
Sam Adelman (Law School, University of
Warwick), The Rule of Law, the Rule of
Capital and Mining in Post-Apartheid
South Africa
Rodrigo Gutierrez (Institute of Legal
Research, National Autonomous University
of Mexico)The Struggle for Social Rights
and Indigenous Rights in the Framework of
Neo-Extractivism in Mexico
Mirza Satria Buana (From), Development
and Access to Justice: Enigma of Natural
Resources Disputes: A Comparative SocioLegal Study in South Kalimantan, Indonesia
University Rotterdam) Participation and
Compensation in the Context of an
Expanding Extraction Frontier: The Case
of Oil Exploration in the North of La Paz,
Bolivia
David M. Ong (School of Law,
Nottingham Trent University), Ensuring
Public Accountability of Private
International Financing of Natural
Resource Development Projects: The
Equator Principles (Mark III)
10.30
11.00
11.00
12.30
12.30
13.00
13.00
14.00
Closing session
Lunch
Workshop funded by:
Coffee Break
Panel 6: Oil and Infrastructure Finance
Chair: Ronald Janse (University of
Amsterdam)
Susann Handke (School of Law,
University of Rotterdam), The Feasibility
of Non-Interference in Internal Affairs:
The Chinese Legal Discourse on SinoSudanese Oil Cooperation
Lorrenzo Pellegrini (International
Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus
An activity of the Network on International Law, Natural
Resources and Sustainable Development organised by:
 Paul Scholten Center for Jurisprudence (University of
Amsterdam)
 Center for the Law, Regulation and Governance of the
Global Economy, Warwick Law School
 Research Group on Law and Development, Law School,
University of Antwerp