EU Law Stories Conference (March 13 at AU-WCL): Comparative and Contextual Histories of European Jurisprudence

We wanted to alert readers to the "EU Law Stories" conference hosted by our friends at American University Washington College of Law in DC, which will take place on Thursday, March 13.  It may be of interest to those of us also attending the CES conference, which begins the following day. An overview of the program is immediately below, including links to network members who are taking part.  Further information, including registration details, can be found here.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

8:30 am – 6:00 pm

American University Washington College of Law, 6th floor lounge

4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016

The conference will engage lawyers, historians, and social scientists in an interdisciplinary analysis of the important, engaging, or enigmatic EU law cases in order to develop ‘thick’ descriptions of them, more accurate contextual histories, engagement with the leading personalities involved, and critical perspectives in European integration. This will go beyond the standard ‘text book’ analyses of these cases and ‘fold’ the political science and developing historical research in together with the broader legal framework. The aim is to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds into an open and productive conversation and publish the fruits of this as a volume with a leading press that we think it is timely to influence both the scholarly debates on EU law as well as its teaching.



8:00 am Registration and continental breakfast

8:30 am Welcome and Introduction:
Bill Davies, Justice, Law & Criminology American University and Fernanda Nicola - American University Washington College of Law

8:45 am   EU INSTITUTIONS: DEMOCRATIZATION AND CONSTITUTIONALIZATION
Commentator – Francesca Bignami, George Washington Law School (TBC)

• Morten Rasmussen, University of Copenhagen - Revolutionizing European Law: A History of the Van Gend en Loos Judgment
• Anne Boerger, University of Alberta - Les Verts and the Constitutionalisation of the Treaties
• Anne McNaughton, Australian National University - ERTA
• Alexandre Bernier, University of Copenhagen, The UNEF v. Consten Ruling and the Origin of the French Reception 

10:00 am   Coffee Break

10:15 am   HUMAN RIGHTS & CITIZENSHIP
Commentator – Bill Davies, SPA, Justice, Law & Criminology, American University

• Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen - Chen v. Home Secretary
• Francesca Strumia, University of Torino – Zambrano: Rottman and the Disconnected Narratives of Third Country Nationals Inclusion
• Mathilde Cohen, UConn School of Law - Taxquet vs. Belgium
• Roberto Mastroianni, University of Naples - Media Pluralism in Centro Europa 7 Srl

11:30 pm   SYNTHETIC PANEL
Commentator – Philomila Tsoukala, Georgetown Law Center (TBC)

• Kalypso Aude Nicolaïdis, St. Anthony’s College University of Oxford - Kir Forever 
• Antoine Vauchez, CNRS / Université Paris 1 Sorbonne –Manufacturing Jurisprudence: Legal Entrepreneurs and Technical Equipment in Shaping of European Case Law
• Karen McAuliffe, University of Exeter – EU Law Stories Through the Lens of Language
• Dan Kelemen, LAPA/ Rutgers University – Eurolegalism at the Court

12:45 pm   Lunch sponsored by EUSA: KEYNOTE SPEAKER Kim Lane Scheppele (TBC)

2:00 pm   MARKET INTEGRATION. PRIVATE LAW AND CORPORATE LAW
Commentator – Fernanda Nicola, American University Washington College of Law

• Laurent Warlouzet, London School of Economics and Political Science – Phillip Morris
• Martin Gelter, Fordham Law School - Centros and Its Progeny
• Antonio Bartolini, Università di Perugia – Francovich
• Vera Fritz, Aix-Marseille-Université – Tessili and the Brussels Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters

3:15 pm   Coffee Break

3:30 pm   GENDER & DISCRIMINATION
Commentator - Daniela Caruso, Boston University School of Law

• Stéphanie Hennette Vauchez, LAPA/ Paris X Nanterre– Grogan
• Ioanna Tourkochoriti, Harvard Law School – Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the Adoption of the U.S. Disparate Impact Doctrine by the CJEU
• Gisella Gori, EU Delegation, Washington DC – Gravier

4:30 pm   BEYOND THE EU BORDERS
Commentator – Michelle Egan – School of International Service, American University

• Peter Lindseth, UConn School of Law  – Viking: Convergence, Cohesion, and the Political Economy of Enlargement
• Daniela Caruso, Boston University School of Law – Algeria Stories
• Elaine Fahey, University of Amsterdam – A Retrospective on the EU-US PNR Litigation

5:30 pm   CONCLUSION AND BOOK PROJECT

6:00 pm   RECEPTION


To register (no charge), please go to www.wcl.american.edu/secle/register
For further information, please contact:  Office of Special Events & Continuing Legal Education,
American University Washington College of Law
Phone: 202.274.4075; Fax: 202.274.4079; or secle@wcl.american.edu