Konferencja: The crisis of multilateral international order: causes, dynamics and consequences

 

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

Registration: https://multicrisis.konfeo.com

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