Programme 2016

Monday, April 4 th 2016

09:15-10.00 Registration & Coffee (Entrance Hall)

10.00-10.10 Conference Welcome (Great Hall) – Emma Perot and Estelle Marks, Co-Convenors of IGLRC 2016

10:10-11:10 Keynote Speech I : Foundations for an Unwritten Constitution with The Rt. Hon. Lord Judge, Former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (Great Hall)

11. 10-11.30 Tea & Coffee Break (Entrance Hall)

11:30-13:00 Parallel Panel Session #1

Commercial and Contract Law : Confidence, competence, and risk-based regimes. (chaired by Professor Eva Lomnicka) (room K0.20)

  • Ligia Catherine Arias Barrera ; University of Warwick; ‘Innovation in the OTC derivatives market: the challenge for UK regulators’
  • Anita Garnuszek ; University of Warsaw; ‘Confidentiality challenges in international commercial arbitration involving states and state entities’
  • Krzysztof Tapek ; Jagiellonian University; ‘Pro-European interpretation of national commercial law and the spillover effect of European Union law’
  • Benjamin Woody ; Tulane University School of Law; ‘The Sinking of Uberrimae Fidei — the Demise of a Harsh, Anachronistic Doctrine’

European Union Law : The EU’s relationship problems – Trust, conflict resolution, and misinterpretation. (chaired by Professor Alexander Turk) (room K0.18)

  • Stephen Brittain ; Trinity College Dublin; ‘Teleological Interpretation in EU Law: an Analysis of the Justifications’
  • Florian Nitu ; King’s College London; ‘Operation and effects of the EU public policy in international commercial arbitration’
  • Auke Willems ; Vrije Universiteit Brussel; ‘Mutual trust as a term of art in EU criminal law’

Public International Law : The legal art of warfare – intelligence gathering, peace negotiations, and aftermath immunity . (chaired by a representative from co-sponsor Volterra Fietta) (room K0.16)

  • Asaf Lubin ; Yale Law School; ‘Blind Oracles: Regulating Intelligence Gathering, Analysis, and Verification for Conducting Wartime Aerial Strikes’
  • Asli Ozcelik Olcay ; University of Glasgow; ‘Inclusion in and exclusion from peace negotiations: Is there a role for international law?’
  • Daniel Wand ; University of Leeds / University of Sheffield; ‘The Frog that wanted to be the Ox’: The ICC’s Indictment of Omar al-Bashir and the Consequences for International Criminal Justice’

13:00-14:30 Poster Session Presentations accompanied by a Buffet Lunch (Great Hall)

  • David J Acheson ; University of Portsmouth; ‘Corporate Rights under the European Convention on Human Rights: The Case for Amendment’
  • Nawaf Alyaseen ; Oxford Brookes Universty; ‘Public policy and morality principles as grounds for refusal of trademarks between Islamic and Western legal systems’
  • Lena Borth ; European University Viadrina; ‘Detention by organised armed groups in non-international armed conflict’
  • Christopher Boyd ; University of Glasgow; ‘(In)security and Superfluity: the Regulation of Work(ers) in the Contemporary Global Order’
  • Fabienne Bretscher ; University of Zurich; ‘Headscarves in public schools: The European Court of Human Rights’ missed opportunity’
  • Yaqi Ding ; University of Glasgow; ‘Corporate Governance Convergence: Is China Moving towards British-style Governance Model?’
  • Jose Fernandez ; Glasgow University; ‘Collective criminalisation, between collective actions and collective agency’
  • Aoife Finnerty ; University of Limerick; ‘The Curious Incident of ‘Ms K’ in Ireland: An examination of the challenges facing foreign national women who refuse life-saving medical treatment’
  • Maria-Artemis Kolliniati ; University of Glasgow; ‘Anti-universality of human rights and the double dimension rights’
  • Jamie Kunz ; University of Lincoln; ‘Moving Towards Ecocentric Perspectives: Appraising the judicial interpretation of sustainable development by international courts and tribunals’
  • Luigi Lonardo ; King’s College London; ‘External Aspects of the European Banking Union’
  • Maria-Cristina Macocinschi ; University of Turku; ‘Power and information asymmetries in the digital Panopticon’
  • Gaofeng Meng ; University of Glasgow; ‘ North’s Theory of Property Rights’
  • Natalya Mosunova ; University of East Anglia; ‘Design of Russia’s Criminal Cartel Offence’
  • Deirdre Ni Fhloinn ; Trinity College Dublin; ‘Residential construction in the EU: is a common system of regulation and remedies possible?’
  • Andrea Rocco ; University of Birmingham; ‘Speaking the same language: How the Energy Union can improve the European natural gas supply’
  • Mohammad Zakaria Sabuj ; University of Northumbria at Newcastle; ‘‘Unable or Unwilling’ versus ‘Able and Willing’: Legitimacy of ‘use of force’ in the collective security gap’
  • Corsino San MIguel ; University of Glasgow; ‘Institutionalizing Criminal Responsibilityy’
  • Annemarie Shea ; Trinity College Dublin; ‘The Use of Force against Terrorism: Combating the Islamic State’
  • François Vanherck ; Cambridge University; ‘The right to be forgotten: has the CJEU been to far?’
  • Ines Willemyns ; KU Leuven; ‘Disciplines on state-owned enterprises in TPP: have expectations been met?’
  • Hasan Kadir Yilmaztekin ; University of Exeter; ‘How can human capabilities change our intellectual property imagination? From ‘controlled culture’ to ‘fair culture’’
  • Ilaria Zavoli ; University of Leeds; ‘A European Model for the Prosecution of Transnational Crimes: Trials In Absentia and the European Arrest Warrant Framework Decision’

14:30-15:30 Presentation I: Scoping transnational law: the case of counter-terrorism with Dr. Cian C Murphy (Great Hall)

15:30-16:00 Tea & Coffee Break (Entrance Hall)

16:00-17:30 Parallel Panel Session #2

Competition Law : Old law, new world: Challenges posed by traditional laws in quickly evolving markets. (chaired by Dr. Christopher Townley) (room K0.20)

  • Magali Eben ; University of Leeds; ‘How Internet Businesses Challenge Traditional Market Definition on Both Sides of the Atlantic: Is Data the Missing Link?’
  • Jose Tomas Llanos ; King´s College London; ‘A focus on business models to define online platform markets’
  • Jing Wang ; Bangor University School of Law; ‘Struggling against Administrative Powers: Practical Applications of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law 2007 towards Privately-Owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises’

Criminology, Criminal Justice & Criminal Law : Transnational understandings of crime and justice: organised crime, neuroscience, and trusting the police. (chaired by Mrs. Jane Henderson) (room K0.18)

  • Robert Blakey ; University of Oxford; ‘My brain made me do it: Explaining the media response to neuroscientific explanations of crime’
  • Sibo Yves Gahizi ; University of Sussex; ‘Towards a transnational law in the East African Community: An explorative analysis’
  • Jenna Milani ; University of Oxford; ‘Police Violence and the Maintenance of Public Sentiment: Why Do the Public Continue to Support the Police?’

Legal Theory : Open to change: constitutional amendments, judicial dialogue, and dynamic legal norms. (chaired by Dr. Timothy Macklem) (room K0.16)

  • Christoforos Ioannidis ; King’s College London; ‘Legitimacy of International Human Rights System in a Transnational Context’
  • Letizia Lo Giacco ; Lund University Faculty of Law; ‘Judicial dialogue and the making of international law’
  • Tarik Olcay ; University of Glasgow; ‘Shutting Out Constitutional Politics: To What Extent is Limiting the Constitutional Amendment Power Justified?’

17:30-18.30 Wine Reception (Entrance Hall)

Tuesday, April 5 th 2014

09:45-10:10 Late Registration (room K0.19)

10:10-11:10 Keynote Speech II: “United in diversity? The present and future of EU copyright” with Dr. Eleonora Rosati (Southampton Law School) (Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre)

11.10-11.30 Tea & Coffee Break (River Room – First Floor)

11:30-13:00 Parallel Panel Session #3

Human Rights : Sizing up human rights – proportionality and unequal equality . (chaired by Dr. Natasha Simonsen) (room K0.18)

  • Anne Carter ; University of Melbourne; ‘Proportionality in Australian Constitutional Law: Towards Transnationalism?’
  • Chintan Chandrachud ; University of Cambridge; ‘Proportionality, Judicial Reasoning, and the Indian Supreme Court’
  • Ben Mitchell ; Trinity College Dublin; ‘Similar laws, disparate outcomes: the influence of equality as a fundamental value in Irish and English discrimination law’

Information Law : Now it’s personal – genetic origins, data protection, and the domain name game. (chaired by Richard Beaty) (room K0.16)

  • Donna Lyons ; Trinity College Dublin; ‘The Right of the Donor-Conceived Child to Access Information Relating to Genetic Origins’
  • Mariia Parubets ; Hamburg University; ‘Analysis of divergence and convergence of domain name dispute resolution policies from Law & Economics perspective’
  • Chunxiao Zhang ; University of Bristol Law School; ‘Reconstructing Data Protection: A Hierarchical Approach towards a More Proportionate Regulatory Framework’

International Trade : Give me a good reason: Relationship issues in China, Russia, and the rest of the world. (chaired by Dr. Ann Mumford) (room K0.18)

  • Luyao Che ; The University of Nottingham; ‘The Challenge of Chinese State Capitalism to the Multilateral Trading System: A Changing Paradigm of State-Market Relationships’
  • Johannes Fahner ; University of Luxembourg & University of Amsterdam; ‘In Pursuit of Reason. The Standard of Reasonableness in International Economic Law’
  • Natasha Georgiou ; University of Reading, School of Law; ‘International Energy Governance: Challenges and Opportunities in EU-Russia Energy Relations’

13:00-14.00 Buffet Lunch (River Room – First Floor)

14:00-15.00 Presentation II: Publishing during and after the PhD with Dr. Ann Mumford (Edmond J. Safra Lecture Theatre)

15:00-15:30 Tea & Coffee Break (River Room – First Floor)

15:30-17:00 Parallel Panel Session #4

Environmental Law: Transnational Environmental Dispute Resolution . (chaired by Dr. Eloise Scotford) (room K0.20)

  • Lovleen Bhullar ; School of Oriental and African Studies; ‘Adjudication in water pollution cases: rights (and duties) and the Supreme Court of India’
  • Michael Sukubo ; Institute of Advance Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study: University of London; ‘Re-assessing the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations in Developing Countries after Chandler v Cape’
  • Ying Zhu ; Yale Law School; ‘Towards an Integral Methodology: Reconciling the Tension between Non-discrimination and Environmental Differentiation in International Investment Arbitration’

Intellectual Property Law : Life imitating art: Internet pirates, the Gulf States and Indonesian Batik. (chaired by Justin Koo) (room K0.18)

  • Lolwa Alfadhel ; Queen Mary University of London; ‘A Case Study of Well-Known Trademarks in the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Challenges for Foreign Mark Holders’
  • Kevin O’Sullivan ; University College Cork; ‘Internet Service Providers and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights: Identifying the Upper Ceiling Point of Intermediary Obligations for Enforcing Copyright Online in the EU’
  • Joannes Tandjung ; The University of Sydney Faculty of Law; ‘Formulation of a trade-oriented Indonesian position on the Protection of Traditional Cultural Expression (TCEs): A Case Study of Indonesian Batik as Indonesia enters the ASEAN Economic Community’

17:00-19:00 Closing Reception & Prize Announcements (Chapters – First Floor)

Closing Remarks and Prizes: Professor David D Caron, Executive Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law