European Society of International Law – SGH Warsaw School of Economics – Kozminski University – Institute of Law Studies Polisch Academy of Sciences
Joint Conference, Warsaw, 22-23 November 2019
The Crisis of Multilateral International Order: Causes, Dynamics and Consequences
Programme
Friday (22 November 2019)
9.00-9.20
Opening of the Conference
ESIL President, Prof. Photini Pazartzis (National and Kapodistrian University
of Athens)
9.20-10.10
Keynote address: Prof. Mary Footer (University of
Nottingham, UK), The Multilateral International Order - Reports of its
Death are Greatly Exaggerated + discussion
10.10-10.20 Break
10.20-11.50
Panel 1: Multilateralism in Crisis – General Approaches
Chair: Andrzej Jakubowski (PAS Institute of Law Studies, PL)
Oleksandr Vodiannikov (OSCE, UKR), Crisis of trust in contemporary multilateralism: International order in
times of perplexity
Maria Varaki (King’s College, UK), Revisiting the 'crisis' of international law
Sean Butler (University College Cork, IRL), Believing
is seeing: Normative consensus and the crisis of institutional multilateralism
11.50-12.15 Coffee break
12.15-13.45 Panel
2: Crisis of International Institutions
Chair: Paolo D. Farah (West Virginia University, USA)
Frederick Cowell (University of London, UK), A state beyond shame:
Reputation cost mechanisms in international institutions and the crisis of multilateralism
Piotr Uhma (Pedagogical University of Krakow, PL), The OSCE as a
multilateral organization – how relevant today?
Richard Burchill (TRENDS
Research & Advisory, UAE), When a crisis creates opportunities:
The Belt and Road Initiative as an emerging multilateral project
13.45 – 14.45 Lunch
14.45-16.15 Panel
3: International Courts and Tribunals
Chair: Michał Kowalski (Jagiellonian University, PL)
Christopher Lentz (UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal
Tribunals, NL), State withdrawals of jurisdiction from an international adjudicative
body
Vassilis Pergantis (Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki, GR), The advent and fall of
trust as a cornerstone of judicial review in multilateral cooperation regimes:
A cautionary tale
Gregor Maucec (iCourts, DK), The resilience of onternational courts in the age of authoritarian pushback
16.15-16.40 Coffee break
16.40-18.10 Panel
4: Use of Force/IHL/Collective Security/Non-proliferation
Chair: Patrycja Grzebyk (University of Warsaw, PL)
Karolina Wierczyńska (PAS Institute of Law Studies, PL), ICC in crisis: From extraterritorial jurisdiction to the threat to
sovereignty of states
Rafael Zelesco Barretto (Escola de Guerra Naval, BR), The crisis of multilateralism in the law on international
use of force
Richard Kilpatrick (College of Charleston, USA), The fragmentation of
trade sanctions targeting Iran
20.00-23.00: Conference dinner (by invitation only)
Saturday (23 November 2019)
09.30-11.00
Panel 5: International Human Rights/ICC
Chair: Veronika Bilkova (Institute of International Relations, CZ)
Andrea Carcano (University of Modena, IT), Assessing the promise of international criminal
justice in a multipolar world. Time to
lower expectations and/or to revisit assumptions?
Szymon Zaręba (PAS Institute of Law Studies, PL), Council of Europe and Russia: Emerging from a crisis or heading
towards a new one?
Cristiano d’Orsi (University of Johannesburg, RSA), The legal
protection of the people ‘on the move’ in Africa: An exception to the crisis of
multilateralism?
11.00-11.25 Coffee break
11.25-12.15
Keynote address: Prof. Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary
University of London, UK), The Crisis of Multilateralism, Treaties and
International Environmental Law Regime? + discussion
12.15-13.15 Lunch break
13.15-15.00 Panel
6: International Economic Law I
Chair: Łukasz Gruszczyński (Kozminski University, PL)
Jessica Lawrence (Central European University, HU), We have never
been ‘multilateral’: The rhetoric of universal values in international trade
law
Csongor Nagy (University of Szeged, HU), The national security exception and the world trade order’s legal
crisis: Would judicialization provide an answer?
Magdalena Słok-Wódkowska (University of Warsaw, PL), How rules-based trade regime can
adjust to digital transformation – regionalism, multilateralism or
plurilateralism?
Paolo D. Farah (West Virginia University, USA), The Belt and Road Initiative and
the Multilateral Trading System
15.00-15.25 Coffee break
15.25-17.00 Panel
7: International Economic Law II
Chair: Marcin Menkes (Warsaw School of Economics, PL)
Ewa Żelazny (University
of Leicester, UK), The EU’s reform of the investor-state dispute
resolution system: A bilateral way towards multilateralism?
Richard Ouellet (Université Laval, CA), From the multilateral
law-making process to the regional contract-treaty processes: From free trade agreements
to managed trade agreements
Stella Langner (University of Düsseldorf, DE), Multilateralism in
international tax law: A novel tool to prevent tax avoidance?
17.00-17.20 Concluding remarks
