Programme
| Saturday March 21, 2009 |
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University of Copenhagen Main Building, Gobelinsalen, Frue Plads, 1171 Copenhagen |
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| 09.00-09.15 |
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Introduction |
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| 09.15-09.45 |
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Keynote: Lord Lester of Herne Hill |
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| 09.45-10.00 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 10.00-11.00 |
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Panel 1: Law, Politics and the Genesis of the European Court |
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- A. W. Brian Simpson, University of Michigan, The European Court and the Age of Human Rights
- Mikael Rask Madsen, University of Copenhagen, Institutionalizing the European Convention
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| 11.00-11.15 |
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Refreshments |
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| 11.15-12.15 |
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Panel 2: The Political Challenge of the European Court |
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- Robert Harmsen, University of Luxembourg, The Politics Around the Court: Transforming the Convention
- Erik Voeten, Georgetown, The Politics Inside the Court: Appointment Strategies and Judicial (In)dependence
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| 12.15-13.30 |
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Lunch |
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| 13.30-14.00 |
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Keynote: Professor Luzius Wildhaber |
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| 14.00-14.15 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 14.15-15.15 |
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Panel 3: The Institutional Orientation of the European Court |
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- Laurent Scheeck, Institute for European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Judicial Diplomacy: The European Court and International Political Institutions
- Jonas Christoffersen, The Danish Institute for Human Rights, From International to Constitutional Law - and Beyond?
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| 15.15-15.30 |
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Refreshments |
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| 15.30-16.30 |
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Panel 4: The European Court in Society |
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- Rachel A. Cichowski, University of Washington, Civil Society and (Trans)national Mobilization
- Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, European University Institute, The Legitimacy of the European Court of Human Rights in the Member States
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| 19:00 |
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Conference Dinner |
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| Sunday March 22, 2009 |
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| 09.30-10.45 |
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Panel 5: The European Court in Conflict Societies |
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- Brice Dickson and Darren Dinsmore, Queen's University Belfast, The European Convention in Conflicted Societies
- Kirill Koroteev, Université Paris I, Remedies for Human Rights Violations in Chechnya: The Approach of the European Court in Context
- Ralph Wilde, University College London, The Reach of Europe's ‘Legal Space' Beyond Europe: The Applicability of the ECHR Outside the Territory of ECHR Contracting States
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| 10.45-11.00 |
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Coffee Break |
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| 11.00-12.30 |
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Panel 6: The European Court as a Political Arena |
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- Sergei Golubok, European Court of Human Rights, Right to Free Elections: Emerging Guarantees or Two Layers of Protection?
- Loveday Hodson, University of Leicester, NGOs and the Struggle for Rights in Europe
- Cecilia MacDowell Santos and Teresa Maneca Lima, University of Coimbra, Reconstructing Human Rights and Homoparentality Through Transnational Legal Mobilization: Portugal and the European Court of Human Rights
- Arthur Dyevre, Centro de Estudios Politicos y Constitucionales (CEPC), Generosity Comes at a Price: Broad Rights, Proportionality, and the Individual Litigant
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| 12.30-13.15 |
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Lunch Break |
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| 13.15-14.45 |
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Panel 7: The European in the International System |
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- Carl Lebeck, University of Stockholm, European Court of Human Rights and Other International Legal Orders: Rhetorics of Constitutionalism, Reality of Comity?
- Lucas Lixinski, European University Institute, European Human Rights for All? An Analysis of the Influence of the European Court of Human Rights' Activity on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Daniel Rietiker, European Court of Human Rights, The European Court of Human Rights and the Law it Applies: The ECHR as a Treaty sui generis? Its Place in the International Legal Order, Analysed in the Light of the Special Dynamics of its Interpretation
- Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, European University Institute, The "Hegemonic Struggle" of the "Quasi-Constitutional" European Judge: Institutional Fragmentation within the European Subsystem
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| 14.45-15.00 |
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Closing Session |
