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Programme 

Thursday November 27, 2008
     
Place:   Udvalgsværelse 3, Nørregade 10, University of Copenhagen Copenhagen
     
9.00-9.30    Arrival, registration and coffee
     
9:30- 9:45   Welcome and Introduction by Hanne Petersen
     
9.45-10.45     Key note lecture: European Legal Culture - Inter-European Processes

Keynote speaker:

  • Joxerramon Bengoetxea, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian
  • On How Legal Principles Travel 

Discussant: Pia Letto-Vanamo, Institute of International Economic Law, University of Helsinki

     
10.45-11.00   Coffee break
     
11.00-13.00    
     

1. Law in Europe and European law: Is it Possible to Conceive of Europe as an Autonomous Legal and Political Entity?

Chair: Ditlev Tamm, University of Copenhagen

Participants:

  • Mikael Rask Madsen, University of Copenhagen
  • European Treaty-Making as a Semi-Autonomous Process: The Case of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
  • Julie Bailleux, Université de Paris I - Sorbonne
  • The European Coal and Steel Community's International Studies Conference of 1957: A First Step Towards the Construction of a Truly European Supranational Law
  • Reza Banakar, Westminster University
  • The Elephant in the Courtroom: Rights, Race and Religion in the Age of Terror
  • Pia Letto-Vannamo, University of Helsinki
  • Do we need law for the definition of Europe 

Discussant: Margareta Bertilsson, University of Copenhagen

13.00-14.15   Lunch break
     
14.15-16.30   (including coffee break)
     

2. Is There a Common Notion of Law in Europe? Legal Philosophy and its Implication for Legal Culture

Chair: Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen

Participants:

  • Emilios A. Christodoulidos, University of Glasgow
  • Legal Norms and Legal Culture: the Dynamics of a Disembedding 
  • Henrik Palmer Olsen, University of Copenhagen
  • Legal identity 
  • Kaarlo Tuori: University of Helsinki
  • Perspectivism and Dialogue in European Law
  • Sanne Taekema, Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • Recreating Legal Traditions
  • Looneke Port (Bremen) / Wibren van der Burg (Rotterdam)
  • Is there a Common Legislative Culture in Europe? - The Case of Regulating Biotechnology 

Discussant: Ulla Neergaard, CBS, Copenhagen

17.00-18.15   Reception
     
18.30   Conference Dinner
     
Friday November 28, 2008
     
Place:   Udvalgsværelse 3, Nørregade 10, University of Copenhagen 
     
9.30-10.30  

Key note lecture: Rethinking Legal Culture in Europe - Changing Global Positions

Keynote speaker:  Shaheen Sardar Ali, University of Warwick and professor II at the University of Olso

Discussant:  Hanne Petersen, University of Copenhagen

10.30-10.45   Coffee break
     
10.45-13.00    
     

East and West in European Legal Culture: From Ideological Conflict to Legal Integration

Chair: Margareta Bertilsson, University of Copenhagen

Participants:

  • Christian Boulanger, Humboldt Universität, Berlin
  • The "Materialization" of Legal Culture in Post-Authoritarian Europe: a Weberian perspective
  • Ole Hammerslev, University of Southern Denmark
  • From cold war development to bureaucratic state crafting: European legal export to Bulgaria
  • Ralf Rogowski, Warwick University
  • Transformation of Legal Integration in the European Union: From Harmonisation of Law to Coordination of Policies
  • Marlene Wind, University of Copenhagen
  • The Nordics, the EU and the Reluctance Towards Supranational Judicial Review 

Discussant :   Ditlev Tamm, University of Copenhagen

Lunch break  
     
14.15-15.15    Concluding Session